Devils Take Lead

Dallas
Stars

"We didn't play that well in second game. We knew we had to come back and score some goals," Petr Sykora said. "This is the way we wanted to come back. We could've scored a couple more, but we'll take those two goals."

New Jersey regained the home-ice advantage as they outshot Dallas 31-23 in the game.

"I think it's overblown," New Jersey right wing Randy McKay said of home-ice advantage. "Everyone talks about how they wanted to come in and get home ice and a split. So they split, get home ice. We came here, we won the game. But we'll be just as disappointed if we don't win Game Four as we were after Game Two."

Sylvain Cote gave the Stars a 1-0 lead in the first period Arnott evened the score five minutes later. In the second period the Devils had two consecutive power-plays and Sykora scored the game-winning goal on man-advantage.

"Unbelievable," Robinson said. "I told Patrik Elias after the game I was very proud of both of them. I talked to them before, and I think nobody feels worse than they do that they didn't come out and have a good game in Game Two. But it shows the true professionals they are when they come out tonight and just play a heckuva game."

Dallas is now under pressure to even the series in Game 4 on Monday at the Reunion Arena. The Stars don't want to go back to New Jersey trailing 3-1.

"We're not playing with the necessary sense of urgency," coach Ken Hitchcock said. "With the defense so strong, it takes that kind of urgency to score goals in a series like this."