Matt Duchene and Jamie Benn each had a goal and two assists to lead six players with multi-point nights and Jake Oettinger made 24 saves to lift the visiting Dallas Stars to a 5-1 rout of the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.
Dallas scored the final five goals of the game to keep Chicago reeling. The Blackhawks have lost four straight and six of nine.
Arvid Soderblom stopped 29 shots for Chicago.
Dallas improved to 16-1-1 when leading after two periods. The Stars trailed for just 4:58.
Chicago grabbed a 1-0 lead at 12:20 of the first period as Connor Bedard scored a power-play goal on a wrist shot from the high slot.
Benn scored the equalizer at 17:12, scoring on a rebound of a breakaway that resulted from a poor Chicago line change.
Jason Robertson, Evgenii Dadonov and Wyatt Johnston each had a goal and assist for Dallas, while Miro Heiskanen earned two assists.
Special teams helped turn the tide in the second period. Officials whistled Chicago’s Tyler Bertuzzi for a five-minute major and game misconduct for elbowing Colin Blackwell of Dallas at 8:11. The Stars needed only 12 seconds to capitalize as Robertson scored on a wrist shot from the inside of the right circle through a Roope Hintz screen.
The goal snapped the Stars’ 0-for-21 drought on the man advantage.
Soderblom turned aside numerous other Dallas chances during the extended power play to keep Chicago’s deficit at one goal. The Stars, who were 1-for-7 on the man advantage during the game, made it 3-1 with an even-strength goal. Dadonov finished a cross-ice feed from Duchene in transition for his second goal in as many games.
Johnston scored on a deflection off his skate 10 seconds into the third period. Duchene accounted for the final margin with a goal 2:45 later.
Dallas claimed the season series from Chicago 3-1, outscoring the Blackhawks 14-10.
Chicago fell to an NHL-worst 12-23-2. The Blackhawks have allowed 21 goals during their four-game losing streak.
–Field Level Media
