Tyler Seguin scored his seventh NHL hat trick, including two of the Stars' three power-play goals, in a 5-3 victory against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden.
Seguin, who was traded by the Bruins to the Stars on July 4, 2013, had no points in his previous two games with Dallas here. Seguin extended his point streak to six games and got his 300th NHL point.
Defensemen Alex Goligoski and Jyrki Jokipakka scored for Dallas, which has won four of its past five games. John Klingberg, Jamie Benn and Jason Spezza each had two assists, and goaltender Kari Lehtonen made 36 saves. Boston had a seven-game point streak end. Loui Eriksson, who was part of the Seguin trade, scored twice, and Tuukka Rask made 14 saves. Bruins forward Chris Kelly fractured his femur 1:40 into the game; he will have surgery Wednesday and is expected to be out 6-8 months. The Bruins found out quickly they are going to miss the versatile veteran. Although Kelly will get little sympathy from me after his dirty hit on Evgeni Malkin last season, which denied me the chance of seeing the Pittsburgh Center play.
Boston had the first seven shots on goal. But Seguin scored on the first Dallas shot of the game with a wrist shot from the left circle for a 1-0 lead at 5:46. The Bruins made it 1-1 on a Colin Miller shot that beat Lehtonen low to the stick side for Miller's first NHL goal at 7:14. Boston took a 2-1 lead on a power play; Eriksson flipped in a rebound of a Torey Krug shot with 24.1 seconds remaining. Seguin scored his second goal and tied the game 2-2 during a Dallas power play in the second period. He beat Rask with a slap shot from the top of the left circle at 4:37. Jokipakka put the Stars ahead 3-2 with a slap shot from the left point that eluded a screen by Radek Faksa at 17:18. It was Jokipakka's first NHL goal. Seguin completed his hat trick on another Dallas power play by beating Rask with a one-timer from below the left faceoff dot for a 4-2 lead at 1:18 of the third period.
Goligoski scored a power-play goal at 9:13 for a 5-2 lead. Eriksson's second goal made it 5-3 with 2:15 remaining. Dallas lost the first game of its four-game Eastern Conference road trip 4-1 to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday. So it was important to the Stars that they bounced back. The Bruins were without forward David Pastrnak because of a bruised foot. The Stars were without Ales Hemsky because of a hip injury.
Stars Quotes
Tyler Seguin: "Yeah, I mean, it feels good. It feels good to win in here; it's a tough building to win [in]. It always feels good to score, and obviously I'm very happy with how we responded after playing a bad game in Toronto [on Tuesday] night."Jamie Benn: "Yeah, that was the message coming into this game, and we didn't have the best effort there in Toronto. I thought we responded well as a team. Even though they probably doubled us in shots, I thought we played a much better game on the defensive side."
Tyler Seguin made one fan's night in Boston. Katherine was celebrating her sweet sixteenth birthday and got a puck from her hero during the warm-up then got to meet him after the game:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-stars/headlines/20151103-teenager-reduced-to-tears-when-stars-center-tyler-seguin-tosses-her-a-puck-as-sweet-16-present.ece
This is great to see, for a superstar player to have time for one of his fans. I am sure it must have made her birthday.
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