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The Stars have one game left, at home against
the Blues on Thursday, while the Avalanche have two remaining,
versus the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday and at the Nashville
Predators on Friday.
Tyler Seguin had a goal and an assist for the Stars, who won
their fifth straight game. Joe Pavelski and Roope Hintz also
scored, and Scott Wedgewood earned the victory with 16 saves.
Jason Robertson had three assists for Dallas while Jamie Benn
and Miro Heiskanen had two each.
Robert Thomas recorded a goal and an assist for the Blues
(37-37-7, 81 points). Jakub Vrana also scored for St. Louis, and
Joel Hofer made 32 saves.
Johnston put the Stars up 1-0 on a rebound conversion 5:49 into
the game.
The Blues tied the game 1-1 with a power-play goal less than two
minutes later. Thomas made a back-door pass to Vrana breaking to
the open left side of the net.
The Stars took a 2-1 lead when Pavelski jumped on the ice as the
extra attacker during a delayed penalty call. He scored with a
slap shot with 56 seconds left in the first period.
Heiskanen's assist was his 72nd point, setting the franchise's
single-season record for points by a defenseman.
However, 36 seconds later, Thomas tied the game by weaving to
the goal from a sharp left-side angle to beat Wedgewood.
The Stars scored twice during a four-minute power play to take a
4-2 lead in the second period.
First, Hintz punched in a point-blank goal off Benn's centering
pass from behind the net at 4:48. Johnston then scored from the
slot off Evgenii Dadonov's centering pass for a 4-2 edge at
5:36.
Seguin scored a power-play goal with 43 seconds left in the
middle period. Heiskanen's shot from the blue line went wide of
the left point, but Seguin converted the long rebound off the
end boards.
--Field Level Media
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