Stars score six in win against Wild

DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars scored four goals in 5:08 in the second period of a 6-1 win against the Minnesota Wild at American Airlines Center on Saturday.
Tyler Seguin had a goal and two assists, and Jamie Benn and Alexander Radulov each had a goal and an assist for the Stars (30-19-4), who have won two straight games after losing two in a row. Kari Lehtonen made 30 saves in his second straight start.

It was Lehtonen's first win at home since Nov. 4 against the Buffalo Sabres. Ben Bishop started the previous 17 home games, but he missed the game with facial swelling after he was hit with a puck on the bench in a 4-1 victory at the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday.
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"A hockey rink is a hockey rink, and a game is a game," Lehtonen said. "I've been playing a lot on the road, and that's just the way it's been. I just tried to go out there and do the same thing I've been doing. It was good it worked tonight."
Jason Zucker scored for the Wild (28-19-5), who were coming off a 5-2 win against the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday.
"Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers, and it cost us," coach Bruce Boudreau said. "We were very careless in the first period and got away with it. The message between periods was that if we can manage the puck better and get it deep, then we're going to have success, it's gonna happen, but if we keep turning pucks over, bad things happen all the time."
Mattias Janmark, Stephen Johns, Benn and Seguin scored in the second, when Dallas outshot Minnesota 20-15.
Janmark gave the Stars a 1-0 lead at 8:58 on the power play when he deflected John Klingberg's shot from the point.

Johns made it 2-0 at 9:37 with an unassisted goal. He intercepted a dump-in attempt by Wild forward Nino Niederreiter in the neutral zone, skated in and beat goalie Alex Stalock with a slap shot.
"I was running out of gas there pretty quick and the guy was coming on me," Johns said. "Just tried to get a shot on net and I thought it was a good time for a slap shot and saw his glove side was a little open, and I just buried my head and shot it as hard as I could, and good things happen."
Benn scored on the power play at 11:49 to make it 3-0.
"When we got the third goal, kind of the energy, they looked like they'd played last night," Stars coach Ken Hitchcock said. "But it wasn't until the third goal. They had as many or more scoring chances than we did in the first period, and I thought both teams were really extending each other."
Seguin scored his 25th goal at 14:06 to make it 4-0. Benn and Radulov had the assists.
Zucker scored at 5:40 of the third period to cut the Stars lead to 4-1. He beat Lehtonen with a wrist shot from the left face-off circle after a stretch pass from Mikael Granlund.
Radulov made it 5-1 at 8:05, and defenseman Dan Hamhuis scored with 3:58 left to make it 6-1.
Stalock made 25 saves before he was replaced to begin the third period by Devan Dubnyk, who made seven saves.

Goal of the game

Johns' goal at 9:37 of the second period.

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Save of the game

Lehtonen's glove save on Zach Parise at 1:22 of the second period.

Highlight of the game

Seguin's goal at 14:06 of the second period.

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They said it

"We could have leapt over them. It's been a battle all year doing this. I don't think it's going to change. We've got two more games against them, two more games against [the] St. Louis [Blues] ... It's going to be back and forth. You're going to have your ups and downs. You're going to think, 'Oh, oh, now we're done,' and then you win three in a row and you're right back in it. It's depressing, but you can't let it get you down." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on failing to pass the Stars in the Central Division standings
"We knew they were coming off a back-to-back. They came out hard in the first, it was a really tight game in the first. We got that first one in the second, and then we just went from there. I think we smelled some blood, took advantage of it." -- Stars defenseman Stephen Johns on their four-goal second period

Need to know

The Wild have 15 regulation losses on the road (10-15-1), tied with the Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins and Montreal Canadiens for most in the NHL. ... The Stars recalled Landon Bow from Texas of the American Hockey League on Saturday to back up Lehtonen.

What's next

Wild: At the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET; NBSCN, NHL.TV)
Stars: Host the New York Rangers on Monday (8:30 p.m. ET; NHLN, FS-SW+, MSG, NHL.TV)