Captain Brenden Morrow has points in all four games since the break. He had a goal and an assist on this night, pushing his total to three goals and three assists since the break.

He was superb Tuesday night, leading the Stars with six shots on goal and four hits in the game to go along with the offensive production. He scored the first goal by bouncing a puck off traffic in front Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo to tie the game 1-1 and then made a pretty backhand pass to set up Jere Lehtinen's power play goal that put the Stars up 2-1 in the second period.

"You've got a couple teams with injuries, you are playing tight to the vest and it is hard to score goals. It falls right into what Brenden Morrow is," Stars coach Dave Tippett said. "He finds hard goals around the net, he creates space around the net. On the first one, he gets the puck at the net. He makes a good play on the next one. That's the kind of game Brenden should thrive in and he did."

Then, of course there was the big goal in the shootout, beating Luongo with a nicely place shot high to the blocker side.

"That was huge," Ribeiro said of Morrow's overall performance. "We need our line to create offense and play physical, and Brenden was a great example. He had a goal and an assist, winning goal in the shootout, he's the best example we can have here. Work ethic - we follow him."

For his part, Ribeiro picked up two more assists Tuesday night, giving him seven in four games since the break.

Lehtinen, playing in third game since coming off injured reserve, scored a big power play goal in the game.

"Lehtinen is coming around," Tippett said. "He's getting his timing back and getting more comfortable again."

Marty Turco, who was the key reason the Stars were able to sweep the recent three-game road trip through Western Canada, continued his stellar play in net. He stopped 22 of 24 shots on the night to improve to 4-0-0 since the All-Star break with a 1.71 goals against average and a .942 save percentage. He stopped five of six in the shootout as well to help get the Stars the all important extra point in this game.

"I'm just doing what I need to do on the ice," said Turco. "I need everything I have in the tank for us to win this time of year."

And right now that's what the Stars are doing. The four straight wins and eight points out of the break are huge and just makes the Stars' position better in relation to those teams that have games in hand. But Tippett said the focus has to remain on what the Stars are doing and right now that appears to be working.

"You take care of your own business," Tippett said. "We have played more games than the other teams, but we look at it that we just have to keep winning and take care of what we are doing."