Stars goalie Ben Bishop puts on another dazzling performance in Montreal - The Dallas Morning News

MONTREAL — After morning skate on Saturday, Bowness said the plan for goaltending was always going to include Ben Bishop playing Saturday night in Montreal, meaning Anton Khudobin would draw the Senators on Sunday evening.

Bishop entered Saturday with a .926 save percentage and 2.01 goals against average in 11 previous games at Bell Centre, and made 29 saves Saturday night.

“It’s been pretty good to me,” Bishop said. “It’s a really fun place to play, especially on a Saturday night, Hockey Night in Canada against one of the best goalies in the world. It doesn’t get much better than that as a player. I love this building. I love playing here. I’ve had some good fortune here so far, so hopefully, we can keep it rolling. I love this city.”

Without Bishop, the Stars don’t make it through overtime. He made big saves within 30 second of each other to keep Dallas alive, robbing Tomas Tatar in 1 on 1 situation before stoning Ben Chiarot.

“Just 1 on 1 there, just trying to react,” Bishop said of the Tatar save. “He made a pretty good move, I was able to get my toe on it. So I’ll take it.”

No Sleep: When Jason Robertson said he didn’t sleep the night before his NHL debut Thursday in Toronto, he was not kidding. After AHL affiliate Texas bused from Milwaukee to Chicago and checked in at 12:30 a.m., Robertson was restless.

“I took a shower. I shaved. I had nothing else to do,” Robertson said. “I was on my phone all night, especially because it was an early flight. It was a 7:45 flight so I’ve got to be up at 5:30. We get to the hotel at 12:30. I only have five hours, then an hour goes by, hour goes by. I look, it’s like 4 o’clock. I’m like ‘I can’t even sleep now. I can’t even try.’”

Robertson, who was also flying to Toronto with Stars assistant general manager Scott White, and Robertson said the flight was delayed about three hours before taking off. He tried to keep his eyes open.

“Whitey, I can’t sleep at the gate, I’m going to sleep right through,” Robertson said. “I can’t miss this flight, so I just waited until I got on the plane.”

Robertson took a customary rookie lap on Saturday in Montreal, skating by himself during warmup before the rest of the Stars joined him. Typically, players will skate by themselves before their NHL debut, but the Stars had Andrew Coglino skate by himself in Toronto for his 1,000th NHL game.

Robertson picked up his first career point against the Maple Leafs, with a secondary assist on Tyler Seguin’s power-play goal. He almost scored his first goal on a one-timer Saturday in Montreal. Robertson is in his first year of professional hockey after leading the Ontario Hockey League in points last season.

“You can be lackadaisical in juniors but here in pro, you’re always go go go,” Robertson said. “No nights off, that’s something they kind of drill in me in main camp and my first couple months in Texas. These last couple months have been really good for me and I think that’s confidence.”

Helping hand: Stephen Johns said Saturday morning that Blues forward David Perron texted him during that All-Star break after asking for his phone number to extend words of encouragement. Perron is one of the few people who understand what Johns has gone through by missing more than a season due to head injuries.

On Saturday night in Montreal, Johns played his ninth game of the season after missing the previous 22 months due to post-traumatic headaches. Almost 10 years ago, Perron missed 13 months of action because of a concussion.

“It’s the hardest thing in your life for sure when you go through that,” Perron said in January. “It took me a while to recover from that and it still affects me today. I hope for him that he goes on and plays the rest of the year and plays well. I hope everything goes well.”

-- Comeau is still confused about his goal.

“Saw a shot lane, so I just tried to get it to the net,” Comeau said. “I saw [Andrew Cogliano] going to the net and still don’t know how it went it, but I’ll take it.”

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