{"id":363694,"date":"2025-12-22T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363694\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:58:08","slug":"stars-pull-away-from-maple-leafs-for-4th-win-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363694\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars pull away from Maple Leafs for 4th win in row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Robertson, Sam Steel, Jamie Benn, Mavrik Bourque and Justin Hryckowian scored for the Stars (25-7-5).<\/p>\n<p>Scott Laughton scored for the Maple Leafs (15-15-5), who lost their second of back-to-back games after a 5-3 loss to the Nashville Predators on Saturday and are 1-4-1 in their past six.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Oettinger kept it 0-0 at 8:21 of the first period when he made a glove save on Auston Matthews\u2019s breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars went up 1-0 at 18:30 of the first period when Robertson got around Jake McCabe to retrieve a loose puck in the offensive zone and flipped a shot past Hildeby from the bottom of the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas appeared to stretch it to 2-0 at 8:22 of the second period but the goal was overturned after the Maple Leafs successfully challenged that the play was offside.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto outshot Dallas 21-8 after the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Steel made it 2-0 at 5:03 of the third period, scoring for the second-straight game, when he deflected a point shot from Ilya Lyubushkin in the slot.<\/p>\n<p>Laughton cut it to 2-1 at 8:39 when he carried the puck on a 2-on-1 with Nicolas Roy and shot over Oettinger\u2019s blocker from the left hashmarks.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars went back up by two goals at 12:10 when Benn deflected a point shot from Miro Heiskanen in the slot to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Bourque scored into an empty net at 17:55, ending a 10-game goal drought, to make it 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Hryckowian put in rebound over Hildeby\u2019s right pad at 19:43 for the 5-1 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Robertson, Sam Steel, Jamie Benn, Mavrik Bourque and Justin Hryckowian scored for the Stars (25-7-5). Scott Laughton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-363694","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\/363694","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=363694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}