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02/19 23:52 CST Oleksiak breaks late tie, surging Stars beat Coyotes 3-2
Oleksiak breaks late tie, surging Stars beat Coyotes 3-2
DALLAS (AP) --- Jamie Oleksiak broke a third-period tie with his first goal in
26 games and the Dallas Stars held on to beat the Arizona Coyotes 3-2 on
Wednesday night.
Oleksiak stepped up into the top of the slot, took a pass from Alexander
Radulov and sent a low snap shot past goalie Adin Hill with 8:22 remaining.
Dallas is 5-0-1 in its last six games to pull even with Central Division leader
St. Louis.
Ben Bishop made 21 of his season-high 39 saves in the first period.
Corey Perry and Radek Faksa scored power-play goals for Dallas.
Taylor Hall had a power-play goal for Arizona, Christian Fischer also scored in
the second period and Raanta stopped 30 shots. Arizona remained in position for
the second wild card from the Western Conference.
Perry had a goal and an assist and Denis Gurianov had two assists for the Stars.
Jordan Oesterle assisted on both Arizona goals.
The Stars scored on both of their power plays and have 11 goals with a man
advantage in their last nine games. They had at least one goal in eight of
those games, failing only when they had no power plays in an overtime loss at
Ottawa on Sunday.
Perry scored his first power-play goal this season 2:19 into the game. He was
all alone at the left of the net for a snap shot after a quick-passing play
from Miro Heiskanen at the left point to Denis Gurianov in the left faceoff
circle to Roope Hintz in the right circle to Perry.
Jamie Benn appeared to increase that lead to 2-0 at 13:38 of the first but a
video review showed that Dallas was offside.
Benn left at 10:27 of the second period when he was assessed a major penalty
and a game misconduct for boarding Arizona captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson. During
that power play, Hall sent a shot into the upper left corner of the net at
12:32 to tie it at 1.
Faksa's power-play goal came at 16:01 on a backhand after skating across from
the left side.
That Dallas lead lasted just until 18:12, when Fischer hit a rebound of Ilya
Lyubushkin's shot from above the right slot over Bishop.
NOTES: Dallas RW Alexander Radulov (upper-body injury) returned after missing
three games. ... Stars LW Roope Hintz has 11 of his 12 assists on the power
play. ... Hall has 21 points (9 goals, 12 assists) in 25 games against Dallas.
... Fischer's goal was his first in 23 games.
Coyotes: Complete a two-game, two-day trip Thursday night at St. Louis.
Stars: Play the second in a three-game homestand Friday night against St. Louis.
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