"I thought we competed hard. It's a game we felt good about," Tippett said after the 2-1 shootout loss in Vancouver. "It was a game of inches. We hit a couple of posts and finished on a post with [Sergei Zubov] in the shootout and that's the way it goes sometimes."

The way it went Wednesday night was Luongo's way. He made 39 saves in regulation and overtime, allowing just one goal in 65 minutes. That came on a breakaway by Loui Eriksson, who beat him five-hole with  backhand shot. Other than that he was superb, making several excellent stops on some good scoring chances by the Stars.

None as brilliant as the stop on Ritchie Tuesday night, but he had big saves on Jere Lehtinen while on his side in the first period and quickly got across the crease to make a stop on Stephane Robidas in the third period.

''Louie (Luongo) obviously played pretty good down there," said Stars goalie Marty Turco, who also played a solid game. "He didn't give us any easy ones."

The saves on Lehtinen and Robidas both came on Dallas power plays. The Stars were 0-7 with the man-advantage and that was one area where they failed to take advantage.

 "We certainly played hard and deserved an opportunity to get two points,"  Turco said. "But, we had some power plays that we couldn't capitalize on."

Tippett gave some credit to Luongo for keeping the Dallas power play off the board.

"That's your chance to win. I thought we had good looks and good attempts, but like I said Luongo made a couple big saves and [Philippe] Boucher hit the crossbar on one. That's the way the game goes sometimes," said Tippett.

Turco played a solid game for the Stars, stopping 20 of 21 shots on the night. He came up with a couple of key saves in the third to help Dallas get a point in the game.

"There was quality goaltending in that game," said Tippett.

But the Canucks goaltending was just a shade better and they got the extra point in the shootout. Now it's onto Edmonton Thursday night to take the Oilers.

"We compete hard," said Tippett. "We're going to have to jump right back on it and compete hard again tomorrow night."

"I thought he was going to go to his go-to move but instead he went to his backhand," Luongo said.

Jokinen faked going with his "A" move where he beats the goalie with a wrist shot over the blocker side pad  and as Luongo overplayed that move, Jokinen went to the backhand and put the puck into the open side of the net.

• Loui Eriksson has four points in his last five games.
   
• The Stars have now given up six power play goals over the last nine games.
   
• Since their 11-2-0 start, the Stars are 14-13-1 in the 28 games since.
   
• The Stars hit the midway point of the season. Their 25-15-1 record puts them on a pace for 102 points. 
   
• The Stars dropped to 3-1 in shootouts this season and 15-2 all-time with Wednesday's loss.

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