{"id":318873,"date":"2025-12-01T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318873\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:10:08","slug":"johnston-leads-3-stars-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318873\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston leads 3 Stars of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Dallas Stars center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/wyatt-johnston-8482740\" title=\"Wyatt Johnston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wyatt Johnston<\/a>, Tampa Bay Lightning left wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brandon-hagel-8479542\" title=\"Brandon Hagel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Hagel<\/a> and Washington Capitals right wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tom-wilson-8476880\" title=\"Tom Wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> have been named the NHL\u2019s \u201cThree Stars\u201d presented by GEICO for the week ending Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p>FIRST STAR \u2013 WYATT JOHNSTON, C, DALLAS STARS<\/p>\n<p>Johnston compiled 5-4\u20149 in four games, bookended by a pair of four-point performances, to propel the Stars (17-5-4, 38 points) to a perfect week as they climbed into second place in the overall NHL standings. He registered 1-3\u20144, including his 100th career assist and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHLPR\/status\/1993516269832650787\" rel=\"nofollow\">200th career point<\/a>, in an 8-3 victory against the Edmonton Oilers Nov. 25. Johnston, who was held off the scoresheet in a 3-2 win over the Seattle Kraken Nov. 26, then potted the decisive goal (his 13th career game-winner) in a 4-3 triumph versus the Utah Mammoth Nov. 28. He capped the week with 3-1\u20144, his fourth career hat trick as well as his fourth career four-point effort, in a 6-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators Nov. 30. The 22-year-old Johnston, the 23rd overall pick from the 2021 NHL Draft, sits third on Dallas with 16-14\u201430 through 26 total contests this season. He also paces the League in both power-play goals (12 \u2013 five more than the next-closest player) and power-play points (t-18) while ranking among the top performers in overall goals (t-4th; 16) and points (16th; 30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Dallas Stars center Wyatt Johnston, Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Brandon Hagel and Washington Capitals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-318873","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\/318873","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=318873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}