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
\u201cI thought we were ready to go. It\u2019s usually the team that gets to their details and their game right off the bat, usually wins those ones coming back from break, and I thought we did that right off the bat. I think we were in control right from the start,\u201d\u00a0Duchene said. \u201cWe need to start going after teams in the third no matter what the score is. You know, let\u2019s go after them. We had some good looks, we could have put some in, but we gave up some. We took some penalties in the third there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam Steel<\/a> increased the lead to 3-0 at 5:53. Mavrik Bourque<\/a> 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 \u201cThey\u2019re a good team and they find their success going to the net. Obviously getting tip goals and being dirty. A lot of the shots were going wide and they just happen to hit sticks so we\u2019ve got to be better tying up sticks,\u201d Evans said. \u201cBoxing out early, tying up a stick. Other than if the puck hits them and goes in, you can\u2019t score if we\u2019ve got his stick. So tying up sticks early and boxing out as much as you can so [Daccord] can see the puck.\u201d<\/p>\n On the ensuing power play, Johnston pushed it to 4-0 with his second goal at 6:14. Miro Heiskanen<\/a>‘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, passing Mike Modano<\/a> for the most power-play goals in a single season since the franchise moved to Dallas. He is three away from tying the franchise record of 22 set by\u00a0Dino Ciccarelli<\/a> with the Minnesota North Stars in 1986-87.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a huge honor. I didn\u2019t exactly have that on my radar going into the season but it\u2019s great,” Johnston said. “Obviously, [Mike Modano] did so much for this organization. I think that\u2019s a given just seeing the statue outside. So many awesome players that have played in this organization, for this team, so it\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n \u201cYou always want to pitch in as much as you can. I\u2019m here to help the team win games so it\u2019s always nice when you can get on the board and get things rolling for the post-break hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n Evans beat a sprawling DeSmith with a slap shot from the left circle at 6:46 of the third period for the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought for the most part we were a little bit sloppy, execution-wise. We weren\u2019t making plays and executing the pass to pass,\u201d Eberle said. \u201cAgainst a good team like that, they played simple, they played good. They defended the inside. I didn\u2019t think we did a good job of getting inside, getting greasy.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: Heiskanen recorded the 265th assist of his career to match Darryl Sydor<\/a> for the fourth-most by a defenseman in Stars\/North Stars history. … Bichsel was minus-1 and had one shot on goal in 14:30 of ice time in his return to the lineup after missing 31 games because of a lower-body injury. … The Stars improved to 13-1-1 all-time against the Kraken. … Ben Meyers<\/a>, a forward who missed seven games, and Berkly Catton<\/a>, a forward who missed three, each returned for Seattle. … Kraken defenseman Ryan Lindgren<\/a> left the game in the first period with an undisclosed injury after colliding with Dallas forward Colin Blackwell<\/a>. There was no update on his condition after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duchene made it 2-0 when he tipped Harley’s wrist shot from the blue line at 1:43 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-500275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500275","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=500275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}