Matt Duchene made it 3-0 at 16:31 when he put in Tyler Seguin’s cross-crease pass at the right post.
“Every time I step in there, the guys are going to get everything I have to give them a chance to win,” Wedgewood said. “Early on, I was able to turn away a few of their flurries, and then we pop a couple [of goals]. The boys settled in, and we played a very structured game.”
Hintz pushed it to 4-0 with 18 seconds left in the second period when Johnston found him with a seam pass in front at 19:42.
“We’ve got to be better as a group to keep things simple,” Bratt said. “We need to be more desperate. There’s [defensive] zone plays where we could’ve ended plays early, and there’s some attention to detail that’s leading to goals when there’s a few seconds left in the period, and those goals change momentum.”
Craig Smith extended the lead to 5-0 at 2:10 of the third period with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.
Johnston made it 6-0 at 7:18 when he deked around Devils defenseman Luke Hughes and scored from the slot.
Bratt cut the lead to 6-1 at 13:15 on a shot from the slot.
Toffoli scored through traffic from the point for the 6-2 final at 19:00.
NOTES: Stars forward Mason Marchment was a late scratch due to illness. … With his two points tonight, Johnston (69 points; 37 goals, 32 assists in 127 games played) passed defenseman Miro Heiskanen (68 points; 20 goals, 48 assists in 150 games played) for the most points before turning 21 in Stars history. … Toffoli ended a six-game goal drought.