DALLAS (AP) — Jake Oettinger shut out his home-state crew stopping 32 pictures, Wyatt Johnston and Matt Duchene scored 58 seconds aside late within the second interval and the Dallas Stars beat the Minnesota Wild 3-0 on Monday night time.
Oettinger, who grew up about 20 miles south of the Twin Cities in Lakeville, Minnesota, is 7-0-2 in regular-season play in opposition to the Wild and has an eight-game dwelling successful streak starting in late January.
Johnston deflected a shot from the blue line by Thomas Harley for a power-play aim at 15:01 of the second. Duchene additionally scored by way of a display screen, from the appropriate circle at 15:59.
Mason Marchment added an empty-net aim within the ultimate minute.
Filip Gustavsson made 26 saves for the Wild. Gustavsson allowed solely two objectives final week going 3-0-0 to be chosen the NHL’s First Star of the Week.
Roope Hintz had two assists.
Takeaways
The Stars are 10-0-1 of their final 11 dwelling video games, six factors behind first-place Winnipeg within the Central Division and 5 factors forward of third-place Colorado. Mikko Rantanen took a puck to the face early within the second interval, was helped to the tunnel, however didn’t miss a lot time.
The Wild had a three-game successful streak snapped. Minnesota has a cushty lead within the Western Convention wild-card race and is 4 factors behind Colorado within the division. Defenseman Declan Chisholm left the sport late within the second interval.
Key second
Oettinger made a glove save on Marcus Johansson’s point-blank shot throughout the Wild’s fourth and ultimate energy play halfway by way of the third interval.
Key stat
The Stars are 31-1-1 when main after two intervals. The loss was at dwelling to Minnesota in additional time on Dec. 27.
Up subsequent
The Wild end a back-to-back at dwelling Tuesday in opposition to Vegas. The Stars start a four-game highway journey Wednesday at Edmonton.
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