Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist to extend his point streak to seven games (seven goals, four assists), and Thomas Harley had two assists for the Stars (35-14-9), who have won seven straight and eight of their past nine. Casey DeSmith made 18 saves.<\/p>\n
Ryker Evans scored and Joey Daccord made 28 saves for the Kraken (27-21-9), who are 6-4-0 in their past 10 and play the second of a back-to-back set at the St. Louis Blues on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Johnston gave the Stars a 1-0 lead at 18:41 of the first period, deflecting Esa Lindell’s right point shot past Daccord blocker side from in front for his 30th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Duchene made it 2-0 when he tipped Harley’s wrist shot from the blue line at 1:43 of the second period.<\/p>\n
Sam Steel increased the lead to 3-0 at 5:53. Mavrik Bourque sent a wrist shot on net from low in the right face-off circle, and Steel poked the loose puck through the pads of Daccord. Seattle challenged the play for goaltender interference, but the goal was upheld after video review.<\/p>\n
On the ensuing power play, Johnston pushed it to 4-0 with his second goal at 6:14. Miro Heiskanen’s wrist shot from between the circles deflected in off Johnston’s left leg as he battled in front of the net. It was Johnston’s 19th power-play goal of the season, setting a new record for the most power-play goals in a single season in Stars history. He is three away from tying the franchise record of 22 set by Dino Ciccarelli with the Minnesota North Stars in 1986-87.<\/p>\n
Evans beat a sprawling DeSmith with a slap shot from the left circle at 6:45 of the third period for the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n
Kraken defenseman Ryan Lindgren left the game in the first period with an undisclosed injury after colliding with Dallas forward Colin Blackwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist to extend his point streak to seven games (seven goals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-504498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504498","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=504498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}