{"id":533246,"date":"2026-03-13T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:50:07","slug":"stars-open-with-5-straight-goals-ease-past-oilers-to-push-point-streak-to-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533246\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars open with 5 straight goals, ease past Oilers to push point streak to 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Benn<\/a> scored twice, Wyatt Johnston<\/a> had a goal and two assists, and Miro Heiskanen<\/a> had three assists for the Stars (41-14-10), who have the third-longest point streak in the NHL this season, behind the Avalanche (17 games) and Tampa Bay Lightning (15). Sam Steel<\/a> and Matt Duchene<\/a> each had a goal and an assist, and Jake Oettinger<\/a>\u00a0made 30 saves.<\/p>\n

Evan Bouchard<\/a> and Jason Dickinson<\/a> scored for the Oilers (32-26-8), who are 4-4-0 in their past eight games. Tristan Jarry<\/a>\u00a0made 20 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, we were disappointed with the way the game ended,\u201d Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said. \u201cThe start wasn\u2019t very good. First opportunity we have goes in. Later in the second period I thought we had an opportunity to have a pushback. We had a power play. (Adam) Henrique, one off the crossbar [that] would have made it 5-3. We started the second period and our third period and then they scored a power play and that\u2019s pretty much the end of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn gave Dallas a 1-0 lead at 1:23 of the first period when he collected a rebound off a Heiskanen point shot and backhanded it past Jarry near the top left of the crease.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been the heartbeat of this team for as long as I\u2019ve been here, I\u2019m sure for as long as he\u2019s been with the team,\u201d Robertson said. \u201cYou can\u2019t say enough about him stepping up right now, that line stepping up this last month or two. It\u2019s great, especially when you get it from your captain, he\u2019s the most vocal. It\u2019s great to see him get rewarded in one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steel made it 2-0 at 13:09, redirecting\u00a0Duchene\u2019s cross-ice backdoor pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in the first period we didn\u2019t have any opportunities playing in the offensive zone. We wanted stick handles through a very defensively structured team,\u201d Knoblauch said. \u201cI think they have numbers back, it\u2019s tough to get through there. But even when we did, we didn\u2019t have much speed to go get those pucks. We need to simplify it a little more so that we can get some forechecking in and force them into making some mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robertson extended it to 3-0 at 15:11 when his shot from the right face-off dot trickled through Jarry and deflected off his skate into the net.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of transition offense obviously, so took advantage of our puck play and we didn\u2019t have the greatest pack play today,\u201d Edmonton forward Zach Hyman<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cI think we gave them a lot of free offense, and they are a pretty good team off the rush. So, when you do that it\u2019s tough to climb out of the hole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnston scored a power-play goal from the top of the crease to push it to 4-0 at 5:43 of the second period. It was his 22nd power-play goal of the season, tying\u00a0Dino Ciccarelli<\/a>\u00a0for the single-season franchise record.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s cool, just try to chip in however I can. I wasn\u2019t exactly expecting to score a lot on the power play this year,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cOur goal isn\u2019t to win all the games (remaining). It\u2019s important to win now, but we want to be winning come April, May, June. That\u2019s what we\u2019re working for.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, it\u2019s good to build your identity and get your game to a spot. Obviously have a month or so left, but just kind of get that identity ready so that you\u2019re playing the same way when the playoffs come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Benn scored twice, Wyatt Johnston had a goal and two assists, and Miro Heiskanen had three assists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-533246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533246","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=533246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}