Wyatt Johnston scored a natural hat trick, including the game-winner 20 seconds into overtime, as the Dallas Stars rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday night.
After Dallas trailed 3-1, Johnston scored a short-handed goal in the second period, then tied the game at 11:54 of the third.
In overtime, he finished a two-on-one break on a give-and-go with Roope Hintz, burying a crossing pass into a wide-open net to complete his second career hat trick.
The score came after Vegas defenseman Shea Theodore’s breakaway try to start the overtime was turned away with a left shoulder save by Jake Oettinger.
Hintz finished with three assists and Mavrik Bourque scored for Dallas, which won its third straight game. Oettinger finished with 25 saves.
Vegas’ Tomas Hertl extended his point streak to 10 games with a goal, Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev each had a goal and an assist and Mark Stone notched two assists. Adin Hill made 25 saves for the Golden Knights, who are 2-1-2 in their past five games.
Vegas, which had an Ivan Barbashev goal 56 seconds into the first period taken off the board when Dallas successfully challenged it for being offside, made it 1-0 just 58 seconds later on Eichel’s fifth goal in five games.
Dallas answered less than two minutes later on Bourque’s wrist shot from the slot off a Matt Duchene pass.
Hertl made it 2-1 at 6:35 of the first period. He jammed in a rebound inside the right post after a Nicolas Hague shot.
The Golden Knights extended their lead to 3-1 early in the second period with a five-on-three power play goal by Dorofeyev. He finished a tic-tac-toe play with a backdoor goal by the right post off a pass from Stone, recording his team-leading 22nd goal and eighth in the past nine games.
The Stars cut it to 3-2 a little over a minute later when Johnston buried a rebound of a Hintz shot at the end of a two-on-one rush for the fifth short-handed goal of his career.
Johnston tied it in the third period when he fired a wrist shot from the right circle past Hill’s blocker and inside the far post.
Dallas defenseman Miro Heiskanen had to be helped off the ice midway through the third period after Stone fell into the side of his left knee trying to poke the puck away. Heiskanen didn’t return.
–Field Level Media
