{"id":281892,"date":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281892\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","slug":"jason-robertson-scores-twice-stars-rout-canadiens-for-fourth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281892\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Robertson scores twice, Stars rout Canadiens for fourth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Robertson had two goals and an assist, Casey DeSmith made 23 saves and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/dallas-stars\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"dallas-stars\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Stars<\/a> thumped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> 7-0 in a dominant outing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Johnston \u2014 with his 100th career goal \u2014 Esa Lindell, Tyler Seguin, Colin Blackwell and Alexander Petrovic also scored for Dallas (11-4-3), which won its fourth straight game. Radek Faksa provided three assists and Mikko Rantanen added two.<\/p>\n<p>DeSmith earned his first shutout of the season \u2014 and the Stars&#8217; second in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Dobes allowed five goals on 13 shots through two periods to earn his second consecutive loss for Montreal (10-5-2) after beginning the season with six straight wins. Sam Montembeault entered the game in the third period but didn\u2019t fare much better, stopping four of six.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens, who entered the night in first place in the Atlantic Division, lost their second game in a row and fourth in five outings.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal controlled much of the first period, but Johnston opened the scoring on the power play at 14:21, finishing a tick-tack-toe play with Roope Hintz and Rantanen.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars then exploded with even-strength goals from Lindell, Seguin and two from Robertson in the second period to grab a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Stars: Robertson scored twice in 99 seconds later in the second, beating Dobes to the backhand before burying a wrist shot through a crowd as some fans headed for the exits with 3:11 remaining in the middle frame.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: On top of the loss, forward Alex Newhook exited with an apparent right-leg injury after crashing feet-first into the end boards after he was tripped up by Stars defenceman Ilya Lyubushkin early in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Newhook\u2019s injury, Robertson sent Seguin on a breakaway with a heads-up breakout pass behind the Canadiens\u2019 defencemen to make it 3-0 at 7:10 in the second.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars extended their winning streak at the Bell Centre to seven games, dating back to Oct. 30, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: Host the Boston Bruins on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Stars: Host the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Robertson had two goals and an assist, Casey DeSmith made 23 saves and the Dallas Stars thumped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}