Kane has goal and 2 assists in Blackhawks' win

So far the Blackhawks' vow to be a tougher team to beat on home ice hasn't been just talk.

Playing before their sixth straight sellout crowd at the United Center, the Hawks ran their home record to 4-0-2 Friday night with a convincing 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars.

"Every win at home is big, especially when we haven't won a game on the road," Patrick Kane said. "We have a nice home stretch here and we have to take advantage of it."

There were contributions from everywhere.

Kane was dazzling, goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin was rock solid, third-liners Andrew Ladd and Dustin Byfuglien got their first goals of the season, and defensemen Cam Barker and Brent Sopel also scored to help the Hawks snap a two-game losing streak.

"We can't wait for the top guys like Kane and (Jonathan) Toews, (Patrick) Sharp and those guys to score every night," Sopel said. "We need to be a balanced team from start to finish and from front to back with everybody contributing."

Kane had a goal and 2 assists to give him 12 points in the Hawks' first 10 games. He's already got 6 goals, making good up until now his promise to score more goals than the 21 he got as a rookie.

"I've been a goal scorer my whole life," Kane said. "Last year I had 21, but there was a lot of chances there where I probably could have scored. I've just worked on my shot and tried to get more shots on net and make sure you're burying the ones you get."

After a sluggish start that saw them have difficulty getting out of their own end, the Hawks got a spark from a shift by fourth-liners Adam Burish, Ben Eager and Colin Fraser.

The body banging shift was followed by a Dallas penalty for too many men on the ice, which the Hawks turned into a Cam Barker power-play goal to make it 1-1.

Barker ripped a slap shot from the left point through a double screen by Toews and Sharp that gave Stars goalie Tobias Stephan little chance to see the puck.

The Hawks took a 2-1 lead out of the first period after Kane's goal at 18:50 off a nice feed from Martin Havlat.

The Stars made it 2-2 at 7:39 of the second period when Steve Ott got behind Barker to beat Khabibulin.

Dallas then wasted a golden opportunity to go ahead by failing to score during 68 seconds of a 5-on-3 power play. The Hawks got great work from Fraser, Sopel and Duncan Keith early in the two-man Stars advantage.

"Killing that certainly gave us momentum," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

"Special teams is going to win or lose you games," Sopel said. "If they score a 5-on-3 goal, it's a different ballgame."

Moments later Sopel scored his first goal of the season off a sweet feed from Kane to put the Hawks ahead to stay.

The game ended with Eager slashing Sean Avery, a penalty that may be reviewed further by the league today.