After Jussi Jokinen scored early in the second period, the red light behind St. Louis goalie Hannu Toivonen wouldn't turn off. That was the kind of night of night it was for the Stars, and Toivonen and the struggling Blues.

Five different players scored goals and 12 different players registered points for the Stars, whose score by committee attack was in full force.

The Stars' special teams were excellent. The power play was 3-4. So was the team's top ranked penalty kill, which was 4-4 on the night, and is 28-29 over the last seven games.

The goaltending was solid. Mike Smith, coming off the shutout of Minnesota on Thursday, stopped 27 of 29 shots on Saturday and was superb handling the puck.

The Stars kept pushing even when they had a big lead. A sellout crowd at the American Airlines Center got a good show. 

It was another win in what has been a strong run since the All-Star break. Six straight wins have pushed the Stars to 14 games over the .500 mark, and given them 73 points.

"We find ways to win," Stars center Mike Modano said. "Checking and defending has been our forte. We're trying to create [our opportunities] as much as we can."

And the Stars cashed in on those opportunities. They scored six goals on 23 shots. Several members of the committee had big nights or continued nice runs.

Antti Miettinen potted two goals on the night, giving him 12 for the season and establishing a new career high.

"It's nice to score goals, and I try to score as many as I can," Miettinen said. "The best thing is getting the win and keeping this run going."

Mike Ribeiro remains hot in the point production department. He had a goal and two assists in the game, giving him ten points (one goals, nine assists) since the All-Star break.

Brenden Morrow scored another goal, giving him four goals since the break and eight in his last ten games. He is one short of tying his career-high of 25 set in 2003-04.

Jere Lehtinen has two goals in five games since returning from the break. Jokinen has two goals in the last five games.

"Scoring by committee is how we play, and it makes us a hard team to play against," Stars coach Dave Tippett said.

Still, Tippett tried to keep things in perspective. In other words, the record may say 6-0-0 over the last six games but the Stars coach sees a lot of room for improvement.

"You've got to keep everything in perspective because there were some games I didn't like the way we played," said Tippett. "I like the way our goalie played, but I didn't like the way our team played."

The first three games of the streak, which came during the Western Canada road trip, were a product of some spectacular goaltending by Marty Turco.

On Saturday night the Stars got some help from sloppy goaltending on the other side, which helped stake to the Stars to a commanding lead in the game

"Our play executed and our penalty kill was excellent, we didn't give up much," Tippett said. "Their goaltending probably wasn't as strong as they would like it to be, so we got fortunate to get a lead."

One play in particular Saturday night seemed to rub Tippett the wrong way. That was a play involving Ribeiro that led to the Blues' second goal late in the second period.

After Ribeiro lost the puck at this own blue line, he got out hustled at the other end by Jamal Mayers, who then out battled Ribeiro for the puck and finished off the play by scoring on a backhand shot to make it a 4-2 game.

"I don't like to see a play like Ribeiro's," Tippett said. "That's an example of a play if that is a 2-2 game, that is a huge factor. I don't want to be nitpicky on that, but if we are going to be the team we need to be those things have to be in place. And we have a lot of young players who have to learn some of those things. That is what we will continue to strive for."

Stars defenseman Philippe Boucher took another step forward in his road back from shoulder surgery. On Friday he took some shots with goalie Marty Turco and on Saturday he joined his teammates for the morning skate.

"It was nice to be out there with the guys," Boucher said. "I got to skate with [Marty Turco] yesterday one-on-one with the goalie. Today there were lots of bodies, take passes and shots. It was fun."

"This is one of the steps in rehab," said coach Dave Tippett. "He starts to get acclimated again, get his timing back. He's been skating very hard on his own. Once he gets OK'd for a little bit of contact and he gets past that, then we can start looking at dates for when we might be able to get him back."

Tippett joked that the decision to go with Smith is a given in a situation like this and he has it in writing.

"It's in the goaltender's handbook that when you get a shutout, you go right back in," Tippett said. "Somebody handed me that handbook once, I haven't read it but that's what I've heard."