Stars @ Vancouver Canucks 4-2 - Thursday, March 16, 2017
Tyler Seguin and Radek Faksa scored in the third period to help the Dallas Stars to a 4-2 win against the Canucks at Rogers Arena. Dallas was coming off a 7-1 loss against the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday and had lost its previous three games by a combined score of 17-4. Seguin converted the Stars' first power play at 9:07 of the third period with a one-timer from above the right circle that beat Miller high on the glove side. Faksa made it 4-2 at 15:31. Ales Hemsky and Esa Lindell also scored and Kari Lehtonen made 26 saves for the Stars (28-32-10), who played without captain Jamie Benn in the third period because of an upper-body injury. Dallas coach Lindy Ruff said Benn will be re-evaluated Friday and wasn't sure if he would be able to play against the Calgary Flames. Benn didn't play after a fight with 6-foot-7, 265-pound Canucks defenseman Nikita Tryamkin with 3:29 left in the second period. Ben Hutton and Sven Baertschi scored and Ryan Miller made 32 saves for the Canucks (28-33-9), who lost all five games on their homestand (0-3-2). Hemsky scored his first goal in his eighth game this season to give the Stars a 1-0 lead at 8:41 of the first period. Baertschi tied it 1-1 at 13:27 of the first period on a rebound after Lehtonen slid across to rob Tryamkin on a backdoor tap-in. Lindell gave the Stars a 2-1 lead with 7.2 seconds left in the first period, but Hutton scored on a power play with 0.3 seconds left in the second to make it 2-2. It was the Canucks' second power-play goal in 34 chances over the past 14 games.
Stars @ Calgary Flames 1-3 - Friday, March 17, 2017
Mark Giordano had a goal and two assists, goalie Brian Elliott won his 10th straight game, and the Calgary Flames defeated the Dallas Stars 3-1 at Scotiabank Saddledome. Michael Frolik and Matthew Tkachuk scored for Calgary (40-27-4), which won its first game after ending a Flames-record tying 10-game winning streak with a 5-2 loss to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday. The Flames, 11-1-0 in the past 12 games and 16-3-1 in the past 20, lead the Edmonton Oilers by one point for third place in the Pacific Division. Elliott made 24 saves in his return after missing the loss Wednesday because of illness. Elliott, 14-1-1 since Jan. 26, won nine games with a 1.74 goals-against average and .943 save percentage during Calgary's streak. Brett Ritchie scored, and Kari Lehtonen made 21 saves for the Stars (28-33-10), who have one win in the past five games (1-4-0) and remained 13 points behind the St. Louis Blues for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference. Dallas played without forward Jamie Benn, who sustained an eye injury in a 4-2 win at the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday. Frolik gave the Flames a 1-0 lead on Calgary's sixth shot of the game at 16:07 of the first period. Tkachuk put the Flames up 2-0 at 5:20 of the second period, and Giordano scored on a wrist shot from the point that deflected off Hamhuis before beating a screened Lehtonen at 8:32 to extend the lead to 3-0. Ritchie scored to make it 3-1 at 13:19 of the third period after a turnover in the slot by Flames defenseman TJ Brodie.
Stars @ New Jersey 2-1 OT - Sunday, March 26, 2017
Tyler Seguin scored a power-play goal 20 seconds into overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 2-1 win against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center. Ales Hemsky scored and Kari Lehtonen made 20 saves in his sixth straight start for the Stars (31-33-11). Dallas is 13 points behind the St. Louis Blues for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference with seven games remaining. Seguin won it for the Stars when he took a pass from Jamie Benn and beat Keith Kinkaid with a wrist shot from the right circle. Steven Santini was penalized for cross-checking with 54 seconds remaining in the third period. The Stars are 11-21-5 on the road. Blake Coleman scored his first NHL goal and Kinkaid made 30 saves for the Devils (27-35-13).
Hemsky's power-play goal tied it for the Stars with 6:36 remaining. After having his initial shot from the right circle blocked by Andy Greene, Hemsky put the rebound past Kinkaid. Coleman, a native of Plano, Texas, gave the Devils a 1-0 lead 11:02 into the first period.
Stars @ Montreal Canadiens 1-4 - Tuesday, March 28, 2017
The Montreal Canadiens increased their lead in the Atlantic Division to four points with a 4-1 win against the Dallas Stars at Bell Centre. The Canadiens (43-24-9) gained a point on the second-place Ottawa Senators, who lost 3-2 in a shootout at the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday. The Senators have one game in hand. Max Pacioretty, Brendan Gallagher, Artturi Lehkonen and Alexander Radulov scored, and Carey Price made 27 saves for Montreal. Curtis McKenzie scored and Kari Lehtonen made 32 saves for the Stars (31-34-11). Andrei Markov tied Guy Lapointe for second place in points by a Canadiens defenseman when he got his 572nd with an assist on Lehkonen's goal, which made it 3-1 at 13:02 of the third period. Radulov increased the lead to 4-1 when he scored with a backhand on a 2-on-1 with Pacioretty at 17:58. McKenzie gave Dallas a 1-0 lead with his sixth goal at 1:47 of the first period after cutting off a clearing attempt by Andrew Shaw inside the blue line. McKenzie's initial shot from the top of the slot struck defenseman Jordie Benn's stick and sailed high, but he continued to drive to the net for the rebound off the glass and shot the puck inside the right post before Price could scramble to his left. Pacioretty, who assisted on Radulov's goal, scored his 34th to bring Montreal even at 1-1 at 15:49 of the second period. Gallagher made it 2-1 at 3:21 of the third with his ninth goal.
Stars @ Boston Bruins 0-2 - Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Boston Bruins kept pace in the Atlantic Division race with a 2-0 win against the Dallas Stars at TD Garden. The Bruins (41-30-6), who have won three games in row, trail the Toronto Maple Leafs by one point for third place and the Ottawa Senators by three points for second. Toronto defeated the Nashville Predators 3-1, and Ottawa lost 5-1 to the Minnesota Wild. Boston is three points ahead of the fifth-place Tampa Bay Lightning, who defeated the Detroit Red Wings 5-3, in the race for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference. Tuukka Rask made 27 saves for his seventh shutout of the season, tying his NHL career high, and Brad Marchand set a new NHL career high with his 38th goal. Rask has 37 shutouts in his NHL career. Marchand scored 37 goals in 77 games last season. The Bruins have allowed two goals during their winning streak, which followed a four-game slide. Torey Krug had a power-play goal for Boston, which ended a three-game home losing streak against Dallas. Antti Niemi made 22 saves for the Stars (31-35-11), who have lost two in a row, in his first start since March 14. The Stars had 58 shot attempts to Boston's 51. Marchand scored his first goal in six games at 15:14 of the first for a 1-0 lead, and Krug made it 2-0 1:18 into the second period.
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