The Dallas Stars dump the puck in. A lot.



Through 49 games, Dallas is second in the NHL in icings, 256 in total. It’s common to see the Stars, no matter who is on the ice, chip the puck into the zone and chase after it during a game.



Ken Hitchcock’s 2017-18 Stars were the same way, as dumping-and-chasing was their way of life.



When Jim Montgomery was hired, that trend was supposed to change.



In a Q&A with The Athletic back in July, Montgomery said that the Stars’ secondary scoring would go up just because of cleaner entries.



That hasn’t happened. Neither secondary scoring nor cleaner entries have become a consistent staple of this club. There are games where it happens in bunches, and in those cases, things tend to go well. But on an overall basis, the Stars really aren’t the poster children for clean entries.



How can we know?



Corey Sznajder has done the yeoman’s work of tracking such...