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 It was Lehtonen's second career playoff shutout.
Rookie Radek Faksa, making his playoff debut, scored the eventual
game-winner 3:53 into the second period, beating Wild goaltender
Devan Dubnyk high on his glove side with a wrist shot from the slot.
Jason Spezza and Patrick Eaves both scored while adding assists for
Dallas, the top seed in the Western Conference.
Dallas broke the deadlock 3:53 into the second period when Faksa
scored from the slot. Ales Hemsky, appearing in his first playoff
game since 2006 with Edmonton, started the sequence by stealing the
puck from Jarret Stoll in the neutral zone.
 Hemsky then fed Faksa, and the rookie center quickly converted to
put the Stars ahead 1-0.
Spezza put Dallas up 2-0 with his 18th career playoff goal at 12:17
of the second period. After receiving a backhand pass from Eaves in
the neutral zone, Spezza rushed up the right side of the ice.
Spezza first faked a slap shot from the right circle, a fake Dubnyk
bit on. Spezza then scored with a wrist shot from the edge of the
right circle that beat Dubnyk high and just inside the near post.
It was Spezza's first playoff goal since April 23, 2012, when he
scored for Ottawa against the New York Rangers.
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Eaves scored a power-play goal off a rebound with 5:44 remaining in
the third to make it 3-0. Dubnyk denied Spezza's slap shot from near
the Wild blue line with a pad save, but Eaves popped in the rebound.
Benn added an empty-net goal with four minutes remaining to cap the
scoring.
Dubnyk stopped 28 of 31 shots in a losing effort.
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