FRISCO, Texas — Lines change. Frequently.



Throughout the season, Dallas Stars coach Jim Montgomery will often juggle his combinations. He makes alterations during the course of games. It’s a mentality he developed early in his coaching career: If I’m making changes early in the season, it won’t be seen as a panic move by my players if I do it in the playoffs.



For that reason, it can be dangerous to read deeply into training camp combinations. But there certainly is something brewing with Denis Gurianov and his top-six chances after spending all three days of training camp on a line with Jamie Benn and Joe Pavelksi.



Gurianov played 21 games with Dallas last season and scored his first NHL goal on a deflection against the Nashville Predators last November. But he failed to establish himself as an NHL forward option at the end of the season when playoff roster spots were being won and lost.



That’s something he obviously...