{"id":180708,"date":"2026-02-26T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180708\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:41:09","slug":"wyatt-johnston-scores-twice-as-dallas-stars-top-seattle-kraken-4-1-for-seventh-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180708\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston scores twice as Dallas Stars top Seattle Kraken 4-1 for seventh straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wyatt Johnston scored his 30th and 31st goals of the season as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas Stars<\/a> beat the Seattle Kraken 4-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist, and Sam Steel also scored for the Stars, who have won seven consecutive games for the first time since last March 22 to April 3.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston scored his 19th power-play goal \u2014 the most in the NHL this season and setting a Dallas season record \u2014 for a 4-0 lead. He has three consecutive 30-goal seasons and five multigoal games this season. Hitting pipes twice in the third period kept him from a fifth career regular-season hat trick.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas goalie Casey DeSmith, backup to Team USA&#8217;s Jake Oettinger, made 18 saves. DeSmith went into play sixth in the NHL with a 2.37 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman Ryker Evans scored a third-period goal, and Joey Daccord stopped 28 shots for the Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston put Dallas ahead 1-0 with 1:19 left in the first period on a deflection at the net. His second score, midway through the second period, went off his leg after a shot from the slot by Miro Heiskanen initially grazed Evans&#8217; stick.<\/p>\n<p>Duchene&#8217;s goal, the first of three second-period Dallas goals, gives him seven goals in the last seven games. Steel jammed the puck between Daccord&#8217;s pads about four minutes later, and the goal was upheld following Seattle&#8217;s challenge for goaltender interference.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Harley, who played for Canada&#8217;s silver medal team in the Olympics, had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken lost defenseman Ryan Lindgren after only two shifts following a violent collision with Stars forward Colin Blackwell.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas swept the three-game season series for the third consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken: Complete a road back-to-back at St. Louis on Thursday, their fifth straight road game since Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Stars: Host Nashville on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston scored his 30th and 31st goals of the season as the Dallas Stars beat the Seattle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1115,2484,34761,154],"class_list":["post-180708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-stars","tag-nhl","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}