{"id":83753,"date":"2025-12-06T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/83753\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:31:17","slug":"stars-use-late-goal-barrage-to-sink-san-jose-sharks-extend-point-streak-to-nine-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/83753\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars use late goal barrage to sink San Jose Sharks, extend point streak to nine games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars<\/a> found themselves in a defensive battle with the San Jose Sharks at American Airlines Center<\/a> Friday night, but found a way to grind out a win, padded by a few late goals.<\/p>\n

In a game with just 41 total shots on goal, the Stars emerged with a 4-1 victory thanks to a dominant performance by the penalty kill and three goals in the third period to put them over the top.<\/p>\n

The Stars extended their points streak to nine games with the win. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve been patient in all these games and finding different ways to win,\u201d Stars forward Justin Hryckowian said. \u201cI thought we kind of just played a mature game. We didn\u2019t want to get into a back and forth game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Stars controlled the first period of play, outshooting the Sharks 9-3 and not allowing San Jose to take a shot on goal for the first 16 minutes of the game. In that time, Dallas built a 1-0 lead when Jason Robertson<\/a> finished a shot Wyatt Johnston took on the power play that hit the crossbar.<\/p>\n

The Stars kept up with their average of 1.04 power play goals per game this season, an NHL best. Robertson now has 15 goals in his last 13 games.<\/p>\n

Midway through the second period, San Jose tied the game when Collin Graf scored from a crowd in front of the net.<\/p>\n

The Sharks had numerous chances to take the lead, as Dallas\u2019 penalty kill took the ice four times. <\/p>\n

Mikko Rantanen<\/a> committed three penalties in the contest, now bringing his total penalty minutes to 65 in 28 games this season. That\u2019s the second-most he\u2019s had in a season, trailing only the 82 minutes he had in 82 games in the 2022-23 season. Rantanen, who leads the league in penalty minutes, could break that career-high before the end of the month.<\/p>\n

His three-minor game was his first since that 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked him, I wasn\u2019t quite sure if he was chasing the point lead or the penalty minute lead. He had a little laugh there,\u201d Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want him in the box. I think he was a little frustrated at times. There was maybe a missed call in the first and then it just snowballed on him a little bit. He\u2019s competitive, but he does great things, and we don\u2019t want him in the box those six minutes a night.\u201d<\/p>\n

But all the penalties gave the Stars\u2019 PK a chance to shine. The Stars killed all four penalties and have now killed 23 consecutive penalties over their last seven games. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got some rhythm now with our killers,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cWe\u2019re on a little run.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Stars took control midway through the third period. Steel snuck the game-winning goal past San Jose goalie Yaroslav Askarov with 9:04 remaining in regulation. Rantanen made it a two-goal game with under four minutes left in the game, finishing with as many points as he had penalties.<\/p>\n

San Jose\u2019s Macklin Celebrini scored a minute later, but the Stars challenged the goal for being offside and were correct.<\/p>\n

Miro Heiskanen<\/a> added an empty netter from the opposite end of the ice with 2:19 to play.<\/p>\n

Stars goalie Jake Oettinger<\/a> made 16 saves in the low-event win.<\/p>\n

The Stars were still without Matt Duchene, Thomas Harley and Nils Lunkdvist, who are all day-to-day with injuries. They were also without Adam Erne, Lian Bichsel and Tyler Seguin, who are out long-term.<\/p>\n

The Stars will remain home and face the Pittsburgh Penguins Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

How to watch Stars-Sharks: Robertson, Dallas look to stay hot against Celebrini, San Jose<\/a>Trial between Stars and Mavericks over American Airlines Center dispute is delayed<\/a><\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars found themselves in a defensive battle with the San Jose Sharks at American Airlines Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28245,2069,27894,28248,28247,404,88,90,89,5451],"class_list":["post-83753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-dallas-stars","tag-jake-oettinger","tag-jason-robertson","tag-mikko-rantanen","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83753","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=83753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}