Heiskanen, Seguin score twice for Stars in win against Devils

DALLAS -- Miro Heiskanen and Tyler Seguin each scored two goals for the Dallas Stars in a 5-4 win against the New Jersey Devils at American Airlines Center on Wednesday.

Jamie Benn scored, and Alexander Radulov matched an NHL career high with three assists for the Stars (21-16-4), who are 3-0-1 in their past four games. Ben Bishop made 30 saves.
Heiskanen, named to the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Game on Wednesday, put Dallas ahead 5-4 at 6:27 of the third period. Roope Hintz won a face-off in the left circle back to Heiskanen, who skated in from the left point and scored with a backhand shot while skating through the low slot.
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"There was a little time for me," Heiskanen said. "I just go there and shoot, and it went in."
Stars coach Jim Montgomery said of the 19-year-old rookie defenseman: "I don't know what to say about him anymore."
Kyle Palmieri, Jesper Bratt, Drew Stafford and Brian Boyle scored for the Devils (15-17-7), who lost for the first time in four games. Rookie
Mackenzie Blackwood
made 35 saves, and Will Butcher and Travis Zajac each had two assists.

The Stars were outshooting the Devils 27-2 at 7:52 of the second period, but New Jersey, which went 23:42 without a shot on goal, from 5:16 of the first to 8:58 of the second, took a 1-0 lead 3:41 into the game when Palmieri tapped in a pass from Andy Greene.
"First half of the game wasn't good, and we all knew that," said Palmieri, who has scored at least 20 goals in four straight seasons for New Jersey, including an NHL career-high 30 in 2015-16. "Blackwood made some saves that kept us in it. I don't think you can play the way we did and expect to have a great opportunity to win a game, especially on the road. But we had a shot."
Benn scored from the top of the crease off a pass from below the goal line by Radulov to tie the game 1-1 at 12:31 of the first.
The goal ended Blackwood's shutout streak at 135:26. The five goals are the most he has allowed in five NHL starts since being recalled from Binghamton of the American Hockey League on Dec. 18, after Cory Schneider sustained an abdominal strain.
"I knew I wasn't going to get a shutout every game," said Blackwood, who made 25 saves in a 4-0 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday and 37 in a 2-0 victory against the Carolina Hurricanes on Dec. 29. "I definitely did not expect to have as good a first couple of games as I did. It was kind of nice to have that, but you know it's a little bit of reality here."
Heiskanen gave Dallas a 2-1 lead at 3:21 of the second when he skated in alone from the point at 4-on-4 and deked Blackwood.

Seguin scored a power-play goal on a one-timer from the left circle to make it 3-1 at 6:38.
Bratt made it 3-2 when he got to the rebound of a Nico Hischier shot in the low slot and shot over Bishop's left shoulder at 11:08.
Seguin gave Dallas a 4-2 lead when he scored his second goal of the game with a shot from below the left circle that went in off the far post after a pass from behind the net by Radulov.

Stafford slid the puck between Bishop's pads on an odd-man rush to pull New Jersey to within 4-3 at 17:21.
Boyle tied it 4-4 on the power play when he deflected Butcher's shot from above the right circle at 18:48 of the second.
"I thought the battle back that we faced throughout the game was really good," Devils coach John Hynes said, "but we were just one [goal] away."
Benn and Greene each left the game in the second period with an injury, and Stars defenseman Julius Honka left in the third. Montgomery said it was precautionary for Benn and Honka, each with an upper-body injury. Hynes did not provide an update on Greene.

They said it

"A good thing about this business is you're right back at it pretty soon after." -- Devils goalie Mackenzie Blackwood
"Would have liked to hide him a little bit in Dallas for a little while longer, but he has broken out right away. The calmness and confidence of him are going to make him a really good hockey player for many years here." -- Stars forward Tyler Seguin on rookie defenseman Miro Heiskanen

Need to know

Palmieri has had at least one point in 10 of 15 games since Dec. 1. He has eight goals and six assists in that span. ... Devils forwards Blake Coleman and Stefan Noesen, who each grew up in the Dallas area, were in the starting lineup. ... New Jersey forward Taylor Hall, who missed his fourth straight game with an upper-body injury, was selected for the NHL All-Star Game. ... Heiskanen's nine goals lead NHL rookie defensemen, and his 19 points are second to Rasmus Dahlin of the Buffalo Sabres (20).

What's next

Devils: At the Arizona Coyotes on Friday (9 p.m. ET; FS-A PLUS, MSG+, NHL.TV)
Stars:Host the Washington Capitals on Friday (8 p.m. ET; FS-SW+, NBCSWA+, NHL.TV)