Hintz scored a goal on two shots and went plus-2 in Thursday's 4-1 win over the Flyers.

Casey DeSmith stopped 27 shots to lead the Dallas Stars to their sixth straight win, 4-1 over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night

Those two games against the Leafs, the Flyers could at least say they played with a sound process. Thursday night against the Stars, there was just nothing.

The Dallas Stars (26-13-1) stayed hot in Philadelphia, defeating the Flyers (17-20-5) 4-1 in one of their more impressive victories of the season thus far.

Dallas pushed its point streak to a season-high eight games (7-0-1) with a commanding 4-1 win in Philadelphia Pete DeBoer was talking about Mavrik Bourque on Thursday morning, but he could have been discussing several Stars players on the subject of consistency.

Casey DeSmith made 27 saves and four Dallas players scored as the Stars rolled over the host Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Thursday for their sixth consecutive win. Mavrik Bourque, Roope Hintz, Wyatt Johnston and Miro Heiskanen tallied for Dallas, which is 7 ...

Sidney Crosby moved up in the NHL record book and Bryan Rust ignited a four-goal outburst in the first period as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the visiting Edmonton Oilers 5-3 on Thursday. It was the Penguins’ first win over the Oilers in more than five years.

The Flyers did their best to respond with ... This time it was Stars leading scorer Roope Hintz, who broke into the Philadelphia end with Evgenii Dadonov trailing behind him as he drops it back ...

Crosby then moved past Sakic with an assist on Drew O'Connor's sixth goal of the season later in the period as the Penguins raced to a 4-1 advantage. Rust also had a goal and two assists for Pittsburgh,

Trevor Zegras returned from a torn meniscus in his right knee in a 5-2 loss against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday and had four shots in 15:48 of ice time. The Ducks forward was injured late in the first period of a 4-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Dec. 4.

Frederik Andersen was activated from injured reserve and will be the backup for the Hurricanes against the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday (7 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, SCRIPPS, NHLN, TVAS2).

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