Jamie Benn had two goals, including the winner with 23 seconds left, and an assist as the Dallas Stars defeated the visiting St. Louis Blues 5-4 Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory.
The Stars beat the Blues three times during that span, all on late goals.
Jason Robertson and Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist for Dallas. Mavrik Bourque also scored, Miro Heiskanen had two assists, and Jake Oettinger made 14 saves.
Jordan Kyrou and Jimmy Snuggerud had a goal and an assist for the Blues, who lost for the eighth time in ninth games.
Pavel Buchnevich and Alexey Toropchenko also scored for St. Louis. Justin Faulk earned two assists and Jordan Binnington made 23 saves.
The Stars put six shots on goal during the game’s first 62 seconds. The Blues survived that onslaught, then moved ahead 1-0 on Buchnevich’s power-play goal at the 7:29 mark.
Dallas tied the game 1-1 with Robertson’s 200th career goal. Mikko Rantanen sliced to the slot and fed Robertson for his goal.
During a delayed penalty call, Kyrou put the Blues up 2-1 with 1:27 left in the period with a shot from the left circle.
The Stars outshot the Blues 13-5 during the second period and surged ahead 4-2.
Duchene tied the game 2-2 at the end of a power play by converting the long rebound from Thomas Harley’s slap shot.
The Stars moved ahead 3-2 just over two minutes later when Robertson fired a turnaround shot from the left circle and Bourque banged in the rebound.
Benn took Duchene’s pass from the left wall and scored from the slot to make it 4-2 with 8:03 left in the period.
Snuggerud zig-zagged through the Stars and scored to cut the Stars’ lead to 4-3 at 11:05 of the third period. Toropchenko tied the game 4-4 by driving the pass and converting Philip Broberg’s no-look drop pass at 15:31.
But Benn scored off the rush with 23 seconds left to decide the game.
–Field Level Media
