{"id":511625,"date":"2026-03-01T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511625\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:55:09","slug":"robertson-scores-winner-stars-overcome-predators-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511625\/","title":{"rendered":"Robertson scores winner, Stars overcome Predators in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robertson finished Miro Heiskanen<\/a>‘s cross-crease feed, snapping a shot past Predators goalie Juuse Saros<\/a>\u00a0from in tight at the right post.<\/p>\n

\u201cWyatt [Johnston] gets behind the net trying to occupy space. He gets to the slot and it\u2019s a great look. He just missed the net. Someone collided, I spin off that guy, and it was a nice pass from Miro,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n

Robertson also had an assist, Johnston tallied a goal and an assist, and Jake Oettinger<\/a>\u00a0made 25 saves for Dallas (36-14-9), which matched its franchise record set in 2023-24 with eight straight wins and has won nine of its past 10 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like with the win streak, the confidence goes higher and higher, and lately the simple things have been better, and the physical play — it sounds quite simple but it has been effective,\u201d Dallas defenseman Esa Lindell<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cI feel like we just stuck with it and just kept working. Especially in the second period, I thought it started to turn for us, and I felt like we just kept pushing, and then got rewarded in the third and got the win in OT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Bunting<\/a> and Steven Stamkos<\/a> each scored, Luke Evangelista<\/a>\u00a0had two assists, and Saros made 22 saves for Nashville (27-24-8), which is 4-3-4 in its past 11 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one that you\u2019re disappointed in not getting two [points], but coming off the break getting three of four is certainly positive. We need as many points as we can,\u201d Stamkos said. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked about just trying to stay the course and get on a little streak of collecting points. We\u2019ll take it, but felt like the game was there. It was there for the taking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bunting finished Miles Wood<\/a>‘s pass, snapping in a power-play goal from the left circle to make it 1-0 at 14:26 of the first period.<\/p>\n

Stamkos pushed it to 2-0 at 15:35.\u00a0Evangelista generated the turnover inside the blue line and passed to Stamkos, who put it past Oettinger from the right face-off circle with a snap shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst period, we were on the forecheck, we were skating, we were physical. It was a really entertaining first period. For us, I thought, that\u2019s the style of play we wanted to continue,\u201d Stamkos said. \u201c[After] we just weren\u2019t as quick on pucks. That\u2019s a very good hockey team, they\u2019ve got great players. They\u2019re going to make plays and they\u2019re going to push being down 2-0. It\u2019s your mentality right? You get up two, you tend to sit back a little too much and then they\u2019re pushing. We had the recipe there in the first and we have to try to sustain it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robertson finished Miro Heiskanen‘s cross-crease feed, snapping a shot past Predators goalie Juuse Saros\u00a0from in tight at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-511625","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\/511625","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=511625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}