Stars captain Jamie Benn said that both the team and the individuals are focused on increasing goal-scoring. While the top line of Alexander Radulov (13 goals), Benn (12 goals) and Tyler Seguin (11 goals) are among the team leaders (Roope Hintz is first with 15 goals), each would like to improve on that pace in the season's stretch run.
"You can talk all you want about it, but you need to go out there and work on it in practice, watch video, and find ways to score some goals," Benn said. "None of us are really having career years in here, but we know we can score. It's just about playing the right way and playing a good team game. We've done it before where we have scored four or five goals in a game, so we need to keep on working on it."
And while the coaches and players work to improve scoring, they still have to balance out doing that while maintaining their defensive style.
"The main thing is it comes down to winning games," Klingberg said. "We know our identity is playing really good defensively. We know we have two really good goalies, and obviously the whole team is really buying into playing good defensively. At the same time, it's really frustrating when you lose 2-1 and you feel like you have a lot of pressure and a lot of actual time to create more, but you don't. I think that's something we need to work on."
