{"id":101214,"date":"2025-12-19T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101214\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:07:11","slug":"wyatt-johnston-scores-two-as-dallas-stars-beat-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101214\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston scores two as Dallas Stars beat San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Johnston<\/a> scored twice and the Dallas Stars<\/a> beat the San Jose Sharks<\/a> 5\u20133 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Roope Hintz<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Justin Hryckowian<\/a> and Jamie Benn<\/a> also scored for Dallas. Esa Lindell<\/a> and Mikko Rantanen<\/a> each had two assists, and Jake Oettinger<\/a> stopped 30 shots.<\/p>\n

Colin Graf had two goals, and Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/a> also scored for the Sharks, who snapped a three-game win streak. Macklin Celebrini<\/a> had two assists and Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> finished with 25 saves.<\/p>\n

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

Mukhamadullin put the Sharks on the board at 1:43 of the second period with his second goal of the year.<\/p>\n

Johnston answered at 8:40 with his second of the game and 19th of the season, moving him one behind Jason Robertson<\/a> for the team lead. Rantanen got his second assist of the night and 32nd of the season on the play.<\/p>\n

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

Graf completed his two-goal night at 4:32 of the third period, with Celebrini getting his 35th assist.<\/p>\n

Benn sealed the win with an empty-netter with 1:18 to go.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Stars: At Anaheim on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sharks: Host Seattle on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/nhl<\/p>\n

Haddy Barghouti, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Johnston scored twice and the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-101214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101214","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=101214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}