{"id":100791,"date":"2025-12-19T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:48:04","slug":"wyatt-johnston-and-roope-hintz-goals-help-lift-stars-over-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100791\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston and Roope Hintz goals help lift Stars over San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/wyatt-johnston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/wyatt-johnston\/\">Wyatt Johnston<\/a> scored twice and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\">the Dallas Stars<\/a> beat the San Jose Sharks 5\u20133 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/roope-hintz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/roope-hintz\/\">Roope Hintz<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Justin Hryckowian and Jamie Benn also scored for Dallas. Esa Lindell and Mikko Rantanen each had two assists, and Jake Oettinger stopped 30 shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Colin Graf had two goals, and Shakir Mukhamadullin also scored for the Sharks, who snapped a three-game win streak. Macklin Celebrini had two assists and Alex Nedeljkovic finished with 25 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__2UraD flex-none object-cover dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766126884_34_JIYESET7YJHNTPK54FKIWINYBE.jpg\" alt=\"Dallas Stars right wing Mikko Rantanen (96) celebrates his third period goal with center...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Hintz opened the scoring for Dallas with 7:35 left in the first period for his 10th goal of the season, and Johnston made it 2-0 with 2:22 remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Mukhamadullin put the Sharks on the board at 1:43 of the second period with his second goal of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Johnston answered at 8:40 with his second of the game and 19th of the season, moving him one behind Jason Robertson for the team lead. Rantanen got his second assist of the night and 32nd of the season on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Graf cut the deficit again with 3:16 remining in the middle period, but Dallas responded quickly as Hryckowian made it 4-2 with 43 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Graf completed his two-goal night at 4:32 of the third period, with Celebrini getting his 35th assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Benn sealed the win with an empty-netter with 1:18 to go.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Stars: At Anaheim on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Sharks: Host Seattle on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Wyatt Johnston scored twice and the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 5\u20133&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2069,404,27899,88,90,89,127,5451,27900],"class_list":{"0":"post-100791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-dallas-stars","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-roope-hintz","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-stars","16":"tag-wyatt-johnston"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}