{"id":309288,"date":"2025-11-26T05:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309288\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T05:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:42:13","slug":"benn-gets-400th-nhl-goal-stars-score-8-in-win-against-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309288\/","title":{"rendered":"Benn gets 400th NHL goal, Stars score 8 in win against Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan Bastian<\/a> had two goals, Wyatt Johnston<\/a> had a goal and three assists, and Jake Oettinger<\/a> made 22 saves for the Stars (14-5-4), who have won seven of their past nine.<\/p>\n

Jason Robertson<\/a> also scored to extend his goal streak to seven games (11 goals) and also had two assists.<\/p>\n

Dallas was without the services of forward Mikko Rantanen<\/a>, who was serving a one-game suspension due to game misconducts for boarding in back-to-back games.<\/p>\n

Evan Bouchard, Jack Roslovic and Connor Clattenburg scored for the Oilers (10-10-5), who have lost four of their past five (1-3-1). Stuart Skinner allowed four goals on eight shots in the first period before Calvin Pickard took over in goal to start the second period and made 18 saves.<\/p>\n

Benn put the Stars ahead 1-0 at 3:48 of the first period, after Johnston dug the puck out behind the net before sending him a cross-crease pass for the putaway for his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n

The Dallas captain was playing in his fourth game of the season after missing the first 19 games after sustaining a collapsed lung in a preseason game. With the goal, Benn became the second player in franchise history to reach the 400-goal milestone, after Mike Modano (557).<\/p>\n

Roope Hintz made it 2-0 on the power play at 10:51, picking up the rebound off a shot by Miro Heiskanen and sending it over Skinner\u2019s right shoulder.<\/p>\n

Bastian extended the lead to 3-0 at 15:24, winning a puck battle along the boards in the neutral zone to spring an odd-man rush before cutting into the slot and going top shelf with a wrist shot.<\/p>\n

Bastian then appeared to score again with 2:24 left in the period, knocking in a puck lobbed toward the crease by Johnston before Skinner could get his glove on it, but it was ruled a high stick.<\/p>\n

Sam Steel made it 4-0 at 18:46 after a giveaway by Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm resulted in a 3-on-2 the other way. Johnston sent a cross-crease feed to Benn, whose shot hit the middle of the crossbar and landed on the goal line, where it was tapped in by Steel.<\/p>\n

Shots were 8-5 in favor of Dallas after one period.<\/p>\n

Connor Clattenburg cut the lead to 4-1 at 4:39 of the second period, collecting the rebound off a point shot by Ty Emberson in the crease and steering the puck around the extended right pad of Oettinger for his first NHL goal. The 20-year-old was selected in the fifth round (No. 160) of the 2024 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

Robertson tipped in a backdoor feed from Tyler Seguin on a 5-on-3 power play at 14:01 of the second period to make it 5-1 and Johnston made it 6-1 just 1:35 later, also on the power play, taking a cross-ice pass from Robertson and then pouncing on his own rebound to score.<\/p>\n

Evan Bouchard closed it to 6-2 at 1:23 of the third period, taking a pass from behind the Dallas net from Vasily Podkolzin and sending a slap shot from the point, glove side, past Oettinger.<\/p>\n

Justin Hryckowian made it 7-2 at 8:21, knocking down a high wrist shot from the point by Mavrik Bourque and putting the puck past Pickard.<\/p>\n

Jack Roslovic shrank the lead to 7-3 at 9:31, taking a rebound on a Connor McDavid shot that hit the post and putting the puck through on Oettinger\u2019s glove side.<\/p>\n

Bastian pushed it to 8-3 with his second of the game at 15:39 after Pickard made the initial save on a shot by Radek Faksa.<\/p>\n

Oilers forward Trent Frederic left the Oilers bench after being hit by a shot in the third period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Bastian had two goals, Wyatt Johnston had a goal and three assists, and Jake Oettinger made 22…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-309288","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\/309288","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=309288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}