Rantanen made it 1-0 Dallas at 3:15 of the first period when the rebound from Hintz\u2019s shot from in close went off Hellebuyck\u2019s mask and to Rantanen alone in front.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was in everything,\u201d Gulutzan said of Rantanen. \u201cTook penalties. He was in all fabrics of the game, you know, and you like that. You want guys with a full stat line, and he competes hard. That’s what I love about him — he competes and he’s got some fire — and that’s what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connor tied it 1-1 at 6:19, collecting Scheifele\u2019s cross-slot pass and shooting it under Oettinger\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn’t take much for him to find holes to get that shot off,\u201d Arniel said. \u201cThe first one, it looked like he was running out of room but he gets it back on his stick and puts it (inside) the bar. He’s just a goal-scorer. That’s what he does. When he gets time, he gets space, he gets 1-on-1 with the goalie, 90 percent of the time it’s in the net.”<\/p>\n
Lundkvist put the Stars back ahead 2-1 at 15:24, scoring with a snap shot from the high slot.<\/p>\n
Dallas made it 4-1 with two goals in a span of 34 seconds in the third. Robertson scored on the power play at 1:01 before Tyler Seguin<\/a>\u2019s goal at 1:35.<\/p>\n \u201c[Rantanen\u2019s] playing with some bite out there,\u201d Robertson said. \u201cI think everyone was just jacked up to get started, but when he gets going he starts feeling it, gets physical. It just adds another element to his game.\u201d<\/p>\n Wyatt Johnston<\/a> then pushed it to 5-1 at 3:23.<\/p>\n \u201cWe gave that top line a couple too many looks,\u201d Connor said. \u201cThey hurt us a bit there. And we just got to be smart when guys like that are on the ice, but the end of the day, like I said earlier, I think the response is the biggest thing that we show in this group, and we got to take that and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n Winnipeg later responded with two short-handed goals in a span of 1:16.<\/p>\n Barron stole the puck in the Jets\u2019 end while killing a 5-on-3 Stars power play and skated the length of the ice to score on the breakaway and cut it to 5-2 at 9:53. Connor then scored his second goal of the game on a partial break off his own rebound to make it 5-3 at 11:09.<\/p>\n \u201cThe short-handed goal sparked us,\u201d Arniel said. \u201cKind of put a little more urgency into us and we won a few more battles — little bit more of the things we needed to do during the first 50 minutes.”<\/p>\n NOTES: Connor extended his NHL-record streak of scoring a goal in season-opening games to eight (2018-19 to 2025-26). The only players with a streak of six or more contests are Cam Atkinson<\/a> (six games from 2014-15 to 2019-20), Yvan Cournoyer<\/a> (six; 1973-74 to 1978-79) and Mud Bruneteau<\/a> (six; 1940-41 to 1945-46). \u2026 Oettinger (4-0-0) became the first goaltender in Stars\/North Stars history to win four season-opening games, passing Marty Turco<\/a> (3-1-3), Cesare Maniago<\/a> (3-4-0), Kari Lehtonen<\/a> (3-2-1) and Ed Belfour<\/a> (3-0-2). \u2026 Scheifele (10 goals, seven assists; 17 points) passed Blake Wheeler<\/a> (seven goals, seven assists; 14 points) for the most points in season-opening games in Jets\/Thrashers history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rantanen made it 1-0 Dallas at 3:15 of the first period when the rebound from Hintz\u2019s shot from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-202502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}