Jason Robertson scored once in a three-point outing while Roope Hintz and Wyatt Johnston both collected one goal and one assist to pace the host Dallas Stars to a 5-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday.
Jamie Benn and Evgenii Dadonov also scored for the Stars, who have won four of five games. Dallas goaltender Jake Oettinger made 21 saves.
Mikael Granlund notched one goal and one assist and Jake Walman scored for the Sharks, who have one victory in their last five outings (1-2-2). Goalie Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 26 shots.
With the score tied 1-1 after the first period, Johnston put the Stars ahead for good by converting a close-in chance off the rush his third goal of the season 56 seconds into the middle frame.
Benn made it a 3-1 game just past the midway point when he found the mark with a one-timer from the slot for his fourth goal of the campaign.
Walman pulled the Sharks within one by netting his second goal of the season with 6:35 remaining in regulation. Walman received a cross-ice pass as he reached the left circle and immediately snapped a shot home. Granlund’s assist on the goal was the 400th helper of his career.
The Sharks failed to convert on a power play moments after making it a 3-2 game, and Hintz (seventh of the season) and Dadonov (fifth) later salted away the game with empty-net goals.
The clubs traded first-period goals starting with Robertson’s fifth of the season at 15:33. Robertson snapped a nine-game goal drought by spinning with the puck just inside the right circle and burying a short-side effort.
Granlund tied the clash with a short-handed breakaway deke while holding off the check to net his ninth of the season at 18:44. With his assist on the goal, William Eklund ran his point-scoring streak to a career-best-tying five games, in which he has collected two goals and five assists.
The victory came at a cost for Dallas, as defenseman Nils Lundkvist left early in the second period due to a lower-body injury.
Granlund exited late in regulation after being on the receiving end of a hit.
–Field Level Media
