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DALLAS -- Alexander Radulov scored two goals for the Dallas Stars in a 5-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings at American Airlines Center on Saturday.

Blake Comeau and Jason Spezza each had a goal and an assist, and Ben Bishop made 33 saves for Dallas (20-16-3), which is 4-2-0 in its past six games. Radek Faksa had two assists.
It was the Stars' first game since CEO Jim Lites made comments critical of captain Jamie Benn and forward Tyler Seguin on Friday.
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"I wasn't trying to pay attention to that," said Radulov, who had his second two-goal game of the season (Nov. 18 at the New York Islanders). "You can't control those things. Whatever people say, they have their right to say it. It's OK. I know and we all know in this locker room that these are our leaders and we're behind them no matter what."

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Dylan Larkin scored to extend his point streak to 13 games for the Red Wings (15-19-6), who have lost four in a row and are 2-7-2 in their past 11 games. Jonathan Bernier made 37 saves.
"We deserved to lose, 100 percent," Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. "We lost too many [pucks]. They were faster than us all over the ice. I do not think that they are faster than us, so that's the way we played. We have to be better than them."
Stars coach Jim Montgomery shuffled three of four forward lines, including breaking up the top line of Benn, Seguin and Radulov. The one line that he left intact from their 2-0 road win against the Nashville Predators on Thursday was Comeau, Faksa and Tyler Pitlick.
"It helps Pitlick's playing unreal right now," Montgomery said. "And Comeau is just a glue guy, and the three of them are playing really well. These last two games, if it wasn't for them, I don't know if we win the games. That's how they've played."
Seguin had an assist and won 12 of 20 face-offs. Benn had no points, two shots on goal and three blocked shots.
Montgomery said of them: "I thought they helped us win."
Comeau gave Dallas a 1-0 lead at 5:11 of the second period with a tap-in at the right side of the crease on the rush off a pass from Faksa near the left boards.
Radulov scored the next two goals. His wrist shot from the right face-off dot off a pass from Mattias Janmark gave Dallas a 2-0 lead at 11:11. At 14:43, he put in the rebound of a Spezza shot on the power play to make it 3-0.

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Pitlick scored on a wrist shot from the right circle 31 seconds into the third period to give the Stars a 4-0 lead. He has a goal in three straight games.
Spezza stole a pass from Filip Hronek at the Detroit blue line and scored on a slap shot from the high slot at 2:20 to make it 5-0.
Larkin scored on the power play with a backhand shot on the rebound of Gustav Nyquist's shot to make it 5-1 at 3:52. He has seven goals and nine assists during the longest active point streak in the NHL.

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Nyquist appeared to pull the Red Wings to within 5-2 at 11:18, but Montgomery challenged for goaltender interference by Justin Abdelkader, and the goal was overturned after video review.
"They said I didn't, after I got pushed in, I didn't get right out of the crease," Abdelkader said. "I thought after I was in, I made an effort to get out. I thought the way they're calling it now, it would have been a goal."

They said it

"We're going to be at home now for a bit, so we've got to make sure that we're coming out and playing well and playing with energy." -- Red Wings forward Justin Abdelkader on their upcoming five-game homestand
"I think we all feel responsible. I think we want to be a better team. It's not just those guys that need to be better." -- Stars forward Jason Spezza on CEO Jim Lites' criticism of captain Jamie Benn and forward Tyler Seguin

Need to know

Janmark has a goal and three assists in a four-game point streak. … The Red Wings have allowed five goals each of their past three games. … Detroit forward Frans Nielsen played his 800th NHL game, the most by a Denmark-born player in League history.

What's next

Red Wings: Host the Florida Panthers on Monday (7:30 p.m. ET; FS-D, FS-F, NHL.TV)
Stars: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Monday (8:30 p.m. ET; FS-SW+, TSN2, RDS, NHL.TV)

Radulov leads Stars to 5-1 victory against Red Wings