"He might be 37-years-old but he is still a great player," Tippett said. "He still skates well. It seems like he has gotten this record behind him and he's been playing a lot better lately. Hopefully we can continue to keep him on a roll."

Well, Modano helped keep the Stars on a roll with another stellar performance Monday night, scoring two goals, including the game-winner in overtime.

And Modano is still on a roll too. He now has six goals and six assists in the last ten games.

A stretch during which the Stars have won six straight, picked up points in eight straight (6-0-2) and in ten of eleven (8-1-2).

Monday's 3-2 overtime win over the Islanders was far from picture perfect, but it was another two points.

"We've been winning ugly but they are wins," Modano said on the Stars' post-game show. "Our goalies have been playing outstanding, keeping us in games and we have been finding some timely goals from everybody."

Modano delivered two of the timely goals Monday, scoring the all important second goal of the game to tie it at 1-1 after the Islanders had taken the lead. And then he delivered the big blow in overtime.

That may have been the most impressive part of the Stars' performance Monday - how they responded after the Islanders tied the game with a late power play goal.

The Stars responded well, keeping up the pressure late in regulation and that carried over into overtime where they were aggressive and ended it quickly.

"I don't think you could have drawn it up any better," Modano said. "That's the most we've moved in overtime in a long time, everybody moving, keeping their legs going and holding on to the puck, that's something that's fun to see and fun to be a part of. The four of us were moving, giving each other some good looks and finally a nice rebound came out to me."

Marty Turco came up big early when the Stars got off to yet another sluggish start and he came up with the save of the game when he stopped Chris Simon point blank early in the third when it was still a 1-1 game. He miscalculated on the Richard Park shorthanded goal and had another near misadventure with the puck in the third period, but he was solid.

The Stars got some very good shifts out of a line of Steve Ott, Jeff Halpern and Stu Barnes and Halpern scored a big goal in the third period to put the Stars up 2-1.

One area they didn't win on this night was in the special teams department. The power play went 0-5 against a very good penalty killing unit and gave up a shorthanded goal and a couple of other shorthanded chances. The penalty kill gave up one late, but it still had a couple of big kills. On this night special teams play got the Islanders one point. The Stars ended up with the two points.

Overall, the Stars are off to a solid start on the trip as far as points. It hasn't been pretty at times, but the Star continue to show an ability to gather steam as the game goes along and get better. They took play away from the Rangers Sunday over the latter part of the game and they did the same with the Islanders Monday. In the end they found a way to win both and keep the winning streak alive.

"All the little things that allow you to win hockey games different ways seem to be part of what we are doing right now," Tippett explained during his appearance on the Islanders radio broadcast.

And that's added up to six straight wins. Next stop is New Jersey, which has won four in a row.

• The Stars improved to 1-3 in overtime games this season.
• The Stars improved to 1-2-1 in the 2nd back game of back-to-back contests this season.
• Jeff Halpern's goal was the 100th of his career.
• Brenden Morrow's points streak was snapped at eight games.
• Stars goalie Mike Smith was named the NHL's third start of the past week.

- Stars coach Dave Tippett on Stars goalie Marty Turco's miscue that led to Richard Park's shorthanded goal