The Dallas Stars (13-5-3) defeated the Vancouver Canucks (9-11-2) 4-2 on Thursday evening thanks to two goals in the third period and a brilliant night in the Dallas fold.
Mavrik Bourque, Jason Robertson, Colin Blackwell and Mikko Rantanen scored for the Stars. Jake Oettinger made 34 saves.
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Linus Karlsson and Elias Pettersson scored for the Canucks. Kevin Lankinen made twenty saves.
Summary of the game
The opening period was busy and started right from the puck drop.
Bourque opened the scoring in the 55th minute of the match, after grabbing his own rebound that slipped from under an outstretched Lankinen.
Just over two minutes later, Karlsson tied the game with a wrist shot from the left faceoff spot that beat Oettinger.
At 7:44, Robertson pushed his goal streak to five games with a quick wrist shot from the right faceoff point as he grabbed the loose puck, spun it and fired it past Lankinen. That goal was Robertson’s ninth during this streak.
Pettersson tied the game with a power-play goal at 14:25, in a chaotic sequence for Oettinger, and eventually knocked in the loose puck for his seventh goal of the season.
After a scoreless middle period, it was Blackwell who broke the 2-2 tie for the Stars at 10:47 of the third period. Radek Faksa collected the puck in the neutral zone and sent Backwell on a breakaway with a nifty backhanded pass, and Blackwell fired the puck across the ice for his second of the season.
Rantanen sealed the win for the Stars at 18:29 with a spin-o-rama backhander that beat Lankinen just inside the post.
The Canucks outscored the Stars 36-24 and went 1-for-5 on the power play. The Stars went 0-for-2 with the man advantage.
Next
Both teams will play the Calgary Flames this weekend. The Stars are in Calgary on Saturday as they continue their journey to the west coast, and the The Canucks will host the Flames on Sunday night.
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