{"id":589809,"date":"2026-04-08T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589809\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:57:07","slug":"johnston-scores-2nd-goal-in-ot-stars-rally-to-defeat-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589809\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston scores 2nd goal in OT, Stars rally to defeat Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robertson had a goal and an assist, and Justin Hryckowian<\/a> scored for the Stars (46-20-12), who have won two of three after losing six of their previous seven (1-4-2). Jake Oettinger<\/a>\u00a0made 17 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas is two points ahead of the Minnesota Wild for second in the Central Division entering a matchup against the Wild on Thursday (9 p.m. ET; HULU, ESPN+).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there will be a lack of focus for the Minnesota game,\u201d Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said, \u201cbut the dig-in part was encouraging as we go into the Minnesota game because it makes you aware of what your mindset needs to be going into that game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joel Farabee<\/a>, Yegor Sharangovich<\/a> and Zayne Parekh<\/a> scored for the Flames (32-36-9), who have lost three of four (1-2-1). Adam Klapka<\/a> had two assists, and Devin Cooley<\/a>\u00a0made 21 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Calgary was eliminated from playoff contention when the Nashville Predators defeated the Anaheim Ducks on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI liked our game tonight,\u201d Flames coach Ryan Huska said. \u201cThere was a lot of our game where I thought we played hard. We did a good job away from the pucks, thought we had some lengthy shifts in the offensive zone. … At the end of the night, again, you\u2019re taking penalties against a very good power play. That\u2019s tough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hryckowian put the Stars up 1-0 at 4:30 of the second period. Thomas Harley<\/a>‘s wrist shot from above the left face-off circle bounced off the end boards in front to Hryckowian, who chipped the puck past a lunging Cooley just inside the right post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robertson had a goal and an assist, and Justin Hryckowian scored for the Stars (46-20-12), who have won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-589809","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\/589809","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=589809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}