Rapid Recap: Stars 5, Islanders 2

The New York Islanders dropped their second straight game on Saturday night, falling 5-2 to the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center.
Mathew Barzal scored two goals - his first and second of the season - but his effort was answered by Stars captain Jamie Benn, who led his team with three points, including the game-winning goal at 8:17 of the third period.
Radek Faksa and Mason Marchment (1G, 1A), Jason Robertson and Jani Hakanpaa (ENG) also scored for the Stars, while Tyler Seguin recorded a pair of assists.
Saturday marked the Islanders first loss this season when scoring the game's first goal (6-1-0).

THE SCORING

First Period
No scoring.
Second Period
1:30 - NYI 1, DAL 0 - Mathew Barzal scores his first goal of the season, redirecting an Alexander Romanov feed past Jake Oettinger. Oliver Wahlstrom picks up the secondary assist, winning a race to the puck and beating Colin Miller in a one-on-one battle along the wall to set up Romanov.
6:57 - NYI 1, DAL 1 - Radek Faksa ties the score, going to the crease and finishing off some tic-tac-toe passing from Tyler Seguin (primary assist) and Jamie Benn (secondary).
14:19 - NYI 2, DAL 1 PP - Barzal scores his second goal of the game, stickhandling through a gap in the slot before beating Oettinger far side. Brock Nelson and Anders Lee pick up the assists.
14:59 - NYI 2, DAL 2 - Mason Marchment caps some offensive zone pressure for the Stars, skating undetected into the slot, taking a pass from Benn and snapping it through a screened Semyon Varlamov.
Third Period
8:17 - DAL 3, NYI 2 - Benn records his third point of the game, going upstairs in tight after taking a feed from below the goal line from Marchment. Benn's goal is his eighth in November, which leads the NHL.
16:27 - DAL 4, NYI 2 - Jason Robertson added an insurance marker, scoring off a face-off win in the Islanders zone. Joe Pavelski gets the lone assist. Robertson's goal extends his point streak to 11 games.
19:39 - DAL 5, NYI 2 - Jani Hakanpaa ices the game with a long-range empty netter. Oettinger with the assist.

NOTEBOOK:

Roope Hintz was a late scratch on Saturday night as he missed the game with a lower-body injury... Hintz was on a 10-game point streak prior to sitting out Saturday with 15 points (6G, 9A) over that span... Josh Bailey returned to the lineup after missing two games as a healthy scratch... Ross Johnston came out of the lineup to accommodate Bailey's return... Barzal is now riding a four-game point streak (2G, 3A), matching a season-long... The Islanders power play scored for a third straight game, with four goals over that span...

GOALTENDING BATTLE:

Semyon Varlamov stopped 30 of 34 in the loss.
Jake Oettinger stopped 27 of 29 in the win.

SPECIAL TEAMS:

The Islanders power play scored for a third straight game, going 1-for-5, while the penalty kill went 2-for-2.

IMAGE OF THE GAME:

HIGHLIGHT OF THE NIGHT:

NEXT GAME:

The Islanders wrap up their four-game road trip on Monday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m.