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The Vancouver Canucks came back from a two-goal deficit on Thursday night to beat the Dallas Stars 5-3 in Dallas.

Filip Chytil, Brock Boeser, Max Sasson, Conor Garland and Quinn Hughes scored for the Canucks. Thatcher Demko made 28 saves in the win.

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Mavrik Bourque, Mikko Rantanen and Wyatt Johnston scored for the Stars. Casey DeSmith made 21 saves in the loss.

Summary of the game

Bourque scored his first of the young season at 4:29 of the first period. Bourque sent a pass to Sam Steel in front of the net, but it was broken up by Elias Pettersson and deflected past Demko.

Rantanen doubled the Stars’ lead with a power-play goal with 37.9 seconds left in the opening period. Jason Robertson sent a cross-ice pass to Rantanen in the offensive zone, and Rantanen fired a perfect wrist shot past Demko’s blocker on the inside of the post.

The Canucks made a quick comeback and it all started with Chytil at 6:40 of the middle frame. Star defenseman Thomas Harley couldn’t contain the puck at the Dallas blue line, allowing Chytil to move in on a breakaway and beat DeSmith’s blocker side.

Boeser tied the game with a power-play goal at 8:50 with a tip-in on a Quinn Hughes shot from the slot.

The Canucks completed the comeback midway through the period thanks to Sasson’s first goal of the season. Tyler Myers sent a beautiful bank pass to Sasson at the Stars’ blue line, who blasted the puck past DeSmith’s blocker.

Garland got another with 66 seconds left in the second period to give the Canucks a 4-2 lead heading into the third.

Johnston scored his fourth of the season with two minutes left, making the finish more interesting than the Dallas faithful thought it would be.

That’s all they would get, however, as the Canucks would win 5-3 thanks to an empty net goal from Quinn Hughes.

The Canucks were outshot 31-26, but went 2-for-3 on the power play. The Stars went 2-for-4 with the man advantage.

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The Stars are back in action on Saturday night and will compete St. Louis will take on the Blueswhile the Canucks will be inside Chicago will take on the Blackhawks on Friday.