Ken Hitchcock continues to hammer the need for poise in his developing Stars team, and Tuesday's game showed the players are listening.
Dallas patiently waited out a desperate Montreal Canadiens team and then struck with two huge goals late in the second period en route to a 3-1 win before a sellout crowd at American Airlines Center.
Dallas moves to 11-9-1 (23 points), while the Canadiens fall to 8-12-2 (18 points).
"The one thing we've been guilty of in the first 20 games is swinging for the fences and trying to get it all back in one shift, and that's kind of escalated," Hitchcock said Monday.