Slash, Dash, and Crash: How and why Wyatt Johnston has so much success

A look at the Stars young forward and why he's been tearing it up lately.

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It’s been less than a month since Wyatt Johnston signed a five-year extension with the Dallas Stars worth $8.4 million per season.

And since inking the deal on March 8, Johnston, fittingly, has been one of the NHL’s most dangerous offensive players.

Johnston’s seven goals since March 8th are tied for 10th most in the NHL during that span (John Tavares lead the league with 12 since that date), and he’s currently riding a five-game goal streak heading into Thursday’s game against the Minnesota Wild.

Johnston has also been doing it in impressive fashion, here’s a recent highlight reel of the type of chances he’s been creating the past three games.

There are a couple things I wanted to look at with Johnston today, first, I wanted to look at how and why he’s having his offensive success.

After that, I wanted to look at some historical comparisons/proper context after going down this wormhole with Bob via text earlier this week.

For me, with Johnston I’ve kept defining his offensive game as: slash, dash, and crash.