DALLAS — Mike Ribeiro and Jere Lehtinen each had a goal and an assist tohelp the Dallas Stars beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-1 on Saturday night.

Brenden Morrow added a goal, and Marty Turco made 20 saves as Dallasimproved to 3-0-1 at home.

Chris Pronger scored a power-play goal for the defending Stanley Cupchampion Ducks, winless on the road (0-4-1).

The Stars had been getting off to slow starts, but they reversed that trendwith Morrow’s power-play goal at 2:05 of the opening period. Morrow notched hisfourth of the season from the slot off a centering pass by Ribeiro.

Ribeiro made it 2-0 at 7:48 of the second period, jamming a loose puck pastgoaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere while the Stars had an extra attacker becauseof a delayed penalty on the Ducks.

Lehtinen extended the lead to 3-0 at 10:01 of the second period with hisfirst goal of the season, and at that point, Anaheim coach Randy Carlylereplaced Giguere with Ilya Bryzgalov. Dallas’ Philippe Boucher dumped the puckinto the Anaheim zone and it bounced hard off the end boards and onto the stickof Lehtinen, who fired a shot past Giguere from the inner part of the rightcircle.

Pronger got Anaheim on the board with his first goal of the season at 18:24of the second period while the Ducks held a two-man advantage.

Notes

Stars C Mike Modano remains four points short of matching PhilHousley’s points record of 1,232 for U.S.-born players. Modano has only twopoints in eight games this season. …The Ducks were without injured RW ToddBertuzzi (concussion) and D Mathieu Schneider (ankle). C Todd Marchant was backin the Anaheim lineup after missing two games due to an ankle injury. …Dallasbegan a stretch of 10 of its next 11 games against Pacific Division competition….The Ducks assigned C Petteri Wirtanen to Portland of the AHL. Wirtanen madehis NHL debut on Oct. 17, scoring his first career goal against Nashville. …Turco played in his 325th game for the Stars, tying Jon Casey for third amonggoaltenders in franchise history. Cesare Maniago is the leader with 420 games.