Arttu Hyry took four shots Tuesday night, more than every Dallas forward except Jason Robertson. That is the right starting point for the Stars’ 6-5 victory over Washington, even with Robertson’s hat trick demanding the larger headline. Hyry did not turn the game into his personal scoring showcase.
He did something more useful for a team built around prominent finishers: he kept giving the attack another credible option.
The distinction matters because scoring is shared unevenly in good offenses. Robertson produced three goals and an assist on five shots. Hyry finished with one assist, four shots, two blocks and 15:25 of ice time. Those lines are not supposed to look alike. Dallas needed Robertson to be extraordinary and Hyry to make enough plays that the extraordinary performance had support around it.
Hyry’s direct contribution arrived during Robertson’s second-period burst. With Dallas already ahead 2-0, Robertson scored 3:18 into the period after getting away from Jakob Chychrun along the right side and beating Washington from the right-circle area. Hyry received the primary assist, while Tyler Myers was credited with the secondary assist.
The four shots give the assist some company. Hyry helped create the 3-0 goal; he did not finish it, and the finish belonged to Robertson. For Dallas, that meant another player getting pucks to the net while Robertson did the scoring. He was offering Dallas another puck-moving and shooting presence, while still handling less glamorous work that included two blocked shots.
Robertson supplied the next strike 2:25 later, producing the third goal of his 5:20 run. The shot came from the point area, traveled through traffic and went in off the right post. Thomas Harley and Roope Hintz received the assists. Hyry was on the ice, as were Robertson and Myers, but he did not earn a point.
That accounting should remain simple. Being present for a goal is not the same as passing into it, screening the goalie or taking the shot. Hyry shared the ice during an important Dallas sequence; the scoring credit belongs to the players who earned it. Treating every on-ice goal as proof of individual influence would turn a useful hockey distinction into decorative arithmetic.
The same boundary appeared in the third period. Hintz scored 1:23 into the frame to restore a 6-3 Dallas lead after his intended pass changed direction off Washington’s Martin Fehervary and went past Charlie Lindgren. Esa Lindell and Robertson were credited with the assists. Hyry was again on the ice, but his name did not appear in the scoring line.
The goal mattered because Washington had pulled within two by the intermission, and Dallas needed a response before the game became entirely uncomfortable. Yet Hyry’s presence beside that goal is best read as supporting context, not hidden authorship. Dallas eventually allowed two more Washington goals and escaped with a one-goal win.
A 6-5 finish offers plenty of room for caution about assigning control to any one forward.
