{"id":79892,"date":"2025-12-08T02:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79892\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:29:07","slug":"mikko-rantanen-scores-lone-shootout-goal-as-dallas-stars-rally-past-pittsburgh-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79892\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikko Rantanen scores lone shootout goal as Dallas Stars rally past Pittsburgh Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Mikko Rantanen<\/a>\u2019s final-round score was the only goal of the shootout and Jake Oettinger<\/a> made 27 saves as the Dallas Stars<\/a> beat the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> 3-2 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

After Rantanen beat Tristan Jarry<\/a> stick side, Oettinger stopped Kris Letang<\/a> to end the game and record his league-high 14th win.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Miro Heiskanen<\/a> scored 6-on-5 to tie the score 2-2 with 1:49 left in regulation and Jamie Benn<\/a> also scored for the Stars, who have won three consecutive games and are 8-0-2 in their last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dallas\u2019 45 points are second in the league but three behind NHL-best Colorado in the Central Division.<\/p>\n

Thomas Novak<\/a> and fourth-liner Connor Dewar<\/a> scored for the Penguins, who are 0-4 in shootouts this season. Jarry, who stopped 21 shots, lost for the first time in his last five starts.<\/p>\n

Penguins star Evgeni Malkin<\/a>, whose 29 points are second to Sidney Crosby<\/a>\u2019s 30 on the team this season, missed his first game this season. Malkin is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

Heiskanen has scored in three straight games for the first time in his eight NHL seasons.<\/p>\n

Benn, Dallas\u2019 captain, has four goals and nine points in 11 games after missing the Stars\u2019 first 19 games following late-September surgery for a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n

Dallas killed both power plays by Pittsburgh\u2019s league-leading unit, extending its streak of successful kills to 27 dating to Nov. 22.<\/p>\n

Stars forward Matt Duchene<\/a>, who led Dallas last season with 82 points, and defenseman Nils Lundkvist<\/a> returned after both were sidelined by injury since mid-October.<\/p>\n

A moment of silence was observed before the game for former Stars owner Tom Hicks, who died Saturday at age 79. Hicks owned the franchise 1995-2011, with Dallas winning the 1999 Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Penguins: Begin a season-long five-game homestand on Tuesday against Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Stars: Take a 10-1-4 road record to Winnipeg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Mikko Rantanen\u2019s final-round score was the only goal of the shootout and Jake Oettinger made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-79892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79892","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=79892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}