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Joel Kiviranta and
Roope Hintz each had a goal and an assist and Jason Robertson
tallied four assists to boost the host Dallas Stars to a 6-1
rout of the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday.
Stars goaltender Anton Khudobin stopped 21 shots as Dallas
outshot Chicago 37-22 to improve to 2-0-1 in three past games on
the heels of a four-game losing streak.
Dallas never trailed and grabbed the advantage early, with
Kiviranta opening the scoring at 1:40 of the first period. Jamie
Oleksiak made it 2-0 Stars with less than five minutes remaining
in the period.
It was only the beginning of a long night for Blackhawks goalie
Malcolm Subban, who gave up six goals on 37 shots. Chicago has
yielded 12 goals in the past two games.
Mattias Janmark, who spent his first four NHL seasons with the
Stars before signing with the Blackhawks in October, scored
against his former team at 1:43 of the second period to cut the
deficit to 2-1, but the visitors came no closer.
John Klingberg scored on a power-play goal at 7:25 of the second
to spark a run of three successive Dallas goals in a four-minute
span. The surge included a breakaway goal from Joe Pavelski and
a tally from the high slot off the stick of Esa Lindell.
Veteran forward Patrick Kane became the seventh player in
Blackhawks history to skate in his 1,000th career game, a group
that includes teammate Duncan Keith as well as Brent Seabrook,
who retired last week. Stan Mikita is the all-time franchise
leader with 1,396 games.
Kane, who tallied his 400th career goal on Feb. 28, nearly added
a goal Tuesday, but Khudobin made a sliding stop on a one-timer
in front of the net with 4:25 to go in the second.
Robertson notched the first four-point game of his career. His
final assist came as Hintz capped the scoring by batting a
deflected puck out of midair and past Subban at 6:46 of the
third.
Chicago, which has lost three of four (1-2-1), will aim to
regroup when the teams close a two-game series on Thursday in
Dallas.
--Field Level Media
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