{"id":133374,"date":"2026-01-14T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:10:10","slug":"stars-late-rally-falls-short-vs-ducks-as-anaheim-snaps-nine-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133374\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars\u2019 late rally falls short vs. Ducks as Anaheim snaps nine-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Chris Kreider and Beckett Sennecke scored goals, Lukas Dostal survived a barrage of shots in the final minutes, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Dallas Stars<\/a> 3-1 on Tuesday night to snap a nine-game skid.<\/p>\n

Jacob Trouba also scored for Anaheim, and Dostal stopped 24 shots \u2014 many of them from point-blank range after Dallas pulled the goalie twice in the final minutes. The Ducks were 0-8-1 since a 4-1 win against Columbus on Dec. 20.<\/p>\n

Roope Hintz scored for Dallas and Casey DeSmith had 22 saves. The Stars lost for the fourth time in six games (2-2-2).<\/p>\n

Hintz\u2019s snap from the slot with a man advantage pulled the Stars to 2-1 with 2:12 left in the third, but Trouba sealed the Ducks\u2019 win with an empty netter the length of the ice with 20.5 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

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The Ducks had given up five goals or more in each of their last five games, and they played one of the NHL\u2019s best teams without their three top point scorers in Leo Carlsson, Troy Terry and Cutter Gauthier, who sat out because of injury or illness.<\/p>\n

But they rediscovered some of their early season mojo, out-skating, out-hitting and out-hustling the Stars for much of the game and taking advantage of a delayed penalty call on Kyle Capobianco to score their first goal in the second period.<\/p>\n

Dostal skated to the bench, giving the Ducks a man advantage. Mikael Granlund took a blue-line pass from Radko Gudas at the bottom of the right circle and found a wide open Kreider, who beat DeSmith stick-side with a snap shot from the high slot for a 1-0 lead 3:36 into the period.<\/p>\n

Anaheim appeared to push the lead to 2-0 when Alex Killorn took a spectacular backhand pass from Ryan Poehling and scored a short-handed goal with 39.8 seconds left in the second, but Poehling crashed into DeSmith and into the net, and the goal was waved off because of interference.<\/p>\n

With 7:58 left in the third, Sennecke gathered the rebound of Granlund\u2019s shot that caromed off the end board and toward the left post. Sennecke shielded himself from a defender and backhanded an unassisted goal past DeSmith for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Ducks: At Los Angeles on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Stars: At Utah on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Miro Heiskanen ruled out of Dallas Stars\u2019 game against Anaheim Ducks<\/a>Stars-Ducks preview: Can Dallas win second leg of its back-to-back after win vs. Kings?<\/a><\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Chris Kreider and Beckett Sennecke scored goals, Lukas Dostal survived a barrage of shots in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,847,2069,404,27899,127,5451],"class_list":{"0":"post-133374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-dallas-stars","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-roope-hintz","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133374","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=133374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}