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Joe Pavelski has history as a big-game player. His brilliant performance during the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs helped propel the Dallas Stars to the Final series. Now, as he begins his second season with the Victory Green Gang, the 36-year-old center appears to be extending that sharp upward scoring trajectory into a scorching early-season run.
It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise, writes
The Athletic’s Saad Yousuf – but Pavelski’s hot streak is coming at an especially opportune time. Yousuf devotes much of his 20/20 wrap-up of the Stars - Nashville Predators series to Captain America’s dominance: