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FRISCO www.officialmapleleafsproshop.com , Texas (AP) — Dallas Stars CEO Jim Lites ripped captain Jamie Benn and fellow high-priced forward Tyler Seguin, telling reporters Friday their play has been “terrible” and saying owner Tom Gaglardi was frustrated as well.Lites requested the interviews, saying he believed Seguin and Benn deserved more public criticism with a team Lites says is underachieving. Dallas started the day holding the final playoff spot in the Western Conference but has expectations of a higher finish.The longtime Stars executive told The Athletic that the Stars would be in danger of missing the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 seasons without better play from Benn and Seguin. Lites told The Dallas Morning News both players “think it’s easy, and that’s what bothers me.”Benn signed an eight-year, $76 million contract in July 2016, and Seguin signed an eight-year, $79 million extension before this season that kicks in next year.Seguin and Benn are the team’s top two scorers with 32 and 30 points respectively in 38 games. Seguin leads with 21 assists, Benn with 15 goals.But neither is in the top 50 in the NHL in points after both finished at least among the 20 best their first four years together before that run ended last season. Benn led the league in points in 2014-15.“We don’t question their desire to win, but they think it’s easy, and that’s what bothers me,” Lites told the Dallas newspaper. “There’s just too much complacency in their games. Lack of attention to detail Toronto Maple Leafs T-Shirts Authentic , and that’s what we need. Accountability and attention to detail and hard work.”Both players said they needed to improve after being told by The Athletic that Lites was critical of them.“Not good enough,” Seguin told The Athletic. “I’m trying to do a job, and I haven’t had the right results.”Said Benn, “I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. If this team wants to get to the next level, that starts with myself.”No player in the league has hit more posts and crossbars combined than Seguin. That’s no excuse to Lites.“He’s hitting posts, ‘wah-wah.’ That’s what I say about hitting posts,” Lites told The Athletic. “Get a little bit closer to the action, actually go to the spot where you score goals. He doesn’t do that, he never does that anymore. He used to be a pest to play against, people hated playing against Tyler Seguin. They don’t anymore.”Lites told The Athletic that Gaglardi expressed frustration over the play of Seguin and Benn as recently as during a 2-0 win at Nashville on Thursday, when goalie Anton Khudobin set a club record in a shutout with 49 saves.The Stars have become one of the better defensive teams under first-year coach Jim Montgomery after years of struggling at the blue line. But now they’re in the bottom third of the league in scoring.“The owner and I see this the same way Toronto Maple Leafs Hoodies Authentic ,” Lites told the Morning News. “We expect our best players to perform like other team’s best players. Game in, game out, the best players on other teams are outplaying the best players on our team.” UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Jordan Eberle and Brock Nelson scored to back Robin Lehner’s fifth shutout of the season as the New York Islanders beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-0 Sunday.Lehner stopped 31 shots to help the Islanders win for the second time in two days and keep pace with first place Washington in the Metropolitan Division.Starting for the second straight day, Lehner had nine saves in the first period, and 11 each in the second and third to improve to 22-12-5 this season.Darcy Kuemper finished with 24 saves as the Coyotes lost their fifth straight (0-3-2), and finished 0-3-1 on a four-game trip. Arizona hasn’t won since March 14 against Anaheim at home, where there will play four of their last six games as they try to make the playoffs for the first time since 2012.CAPITALS 3, FLYERS 1WASHINGTON (AP) — Braden Holtby made 35 saves and Washington beat Philadelphia to snap a two-game skid.Holtby helped Washington kill off three of four Philadelphia power plays, and that allowed the Capitals to avoid what would have been their first three-game losing streak since January.Tom Wilson, Travis Boyd and Jakub Vrana scored for the defending Stanley Cup champions.Jakub Voracek scored a power-play goal and Brian Elliott made 27 saves for Philadelphia Toronto Maple Leafs Hats Authentic , which made a run from near the bottom of the league before running out of gas.BLACKHAWKS 2, AVALANCHE 1, OTCHICAGO (AP) — Duncan Keith scored 1:23 into overtime to give Chicago the win over Colorado.The defenseman took a feed from Brandon Saad, bulled his way down left wing, shrugged off a check from Nathan MacKinnon and beat goaltender Phillipp Grubauer between the legs to snap the Blackhawks‘ three-game losing streak. Chicago pulled within five points of Colorado for the second Western Conference wild card.Artem Anisimov had a power-play goal for the Blackhawks. Corey Crawford made 19 saves.Alexander Kerfoot scored on a 5-on-3 power play for the Avalanche, who had won four straight.HURRICANES 2, CANADIENS 1, OTRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Andrei Svechnikov scored with 1:45 left in overtime as Carolina rallied to beat Montreal in a matchup with Eastern Conference playoff implications.Carolina’s Trevor van Riemsdyk scored the tying goal with 5:39 remaining, and Svechnikov ended it with a wrist shot in the extra session. Curtis McElhinney stopped 28 shots.With the win, Carolina remained alone in the first wild card spot in the Eastern Conference. Montreal squandered a chance to move into a tie with Carolina with a win.Paul Byron scored in the first period Custom Toronto Maple Leafs Jerseys , and Carey Price stopped 38 of 40 shots as Montreal had its three-game winning streak snapped.BLUE JACKETS 5, CANUCKS 0VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Pierre-Luc Dubois ended a 13-game scoreless slump and finished with a goal and an assist, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 21 shots for his seventh shutout of the season as Columbus improved its playoff chances with a victory over Vancouver.Josh Anderson had two goals and an assist, and Ryan Dzingel and Oliver Bjorkstrand also scored for the Blue Jackets (41-30-4), who moved within two points of the Montreal Canadiens for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.Columbus also snapped a three-game road winless streak.Thatcher Demko stopped 28 shots for Vancouver.