COLUMBUS, Ohio – Come on. No way. They wrapped sandpaper around the edges of pucks, put a match in a vise on the goal line and stationed Tyler Seguin in front. The Dallas Stars center fired a puck inches off the ice, just to the right of the vise, so the sandpaper scraped the match head and lit a flame.

Out of all the trick shots Seguin and Jamie Benn did with YouTube sensation Dude Perfect – firing at bowling pins and a mannequin head and a target between a guy’s legs, scoring on a goalie with a big rubber duck and a small pumpkin and a partially eaten doughnut – that might have been the most unbelievable.

They shot the video over two days in early September, before training camp. The video was posted at 5 p.m. CT Monday, and it had more than a half-million viewers in 24 hours. One of them was Chicago Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane, who made his own video a year ago in which he displayed some sick stickhandling, then flipped the puck on his blade … and faked hitting the camera.

Kane sent Seguin a text message.

“Is all that stuff real?” Kane asked.

Seguin smiled.

“There’s nothing fake in that whole thing,” Seguin said. “Everything was real.”

OK. Maybe everything was real. It was easier to believe Tuesday night after the Stars’ 4-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Columbus Blue Jackets' Nick Foligno, left, and Dallas Stars' Jamie Benn fight during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon) More

Seguin, who had the precision to light a match with a puck, had the precision to deflect two Benn shots out of midair and into the net. Benn, who had the aim to make a basketball hoop with a puck at long range, had the aim to pick the upper right corner of the net from the left circle – with a Jacket on his back, after winning a battle with two others.

When Seguin added an empty-netter for his fifth career hat trick – assisted by Benn, of course – you wished piñatas had been dangling from the crossbar to make it interesting.

“The funny thing about lighting the match, it took three shots,” Seguin said. “Swear to God. It was luck, but it took me three shots.”

It’s time for Seguin and Benn to go viral. They finished among the NHL’s scoring leaders last season – Seguin fourth with 84 points, Benn 10th with 79 – as the Stars snapped a five-year playoff drought. They bring out the best in each other. They are the faces of a franchise on the rise.

“We push each other every day in practice,” Benn said. “When he scores, I want to score. We have two competitive personalities, and I think it wears off on each other. At times like today, we have fun out there.”

Seguin has a reputation for having too much fun. The Boston Bruins traded him to the Stars in July 2013, even though they drafted him second overall three years before and he put up strong numbers. There were reports about partying. There were issues with his activities on social media.

Dallas Stars' Tyler Seguin, right, celebrates his goal in the first period in front of Columbus Blue Jackets' Jack Johnson during an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Seguin had three goals in the game. Dallas won 4-2. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon) More

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