DALLAS (AP) — Jason Robertson scored twice and the Dallas Stars had a three-goal third period in a 6-3 victory over the New York Islanders on Sunday night.
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Stars → score → night
Robertson’s breakaway at 9:45 of the third period came five minutes after Wyatt Johnston’s tiebreaker.
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breakaway → come → tiebreaker
Mikko Rantanen added a goal four minutes after Robertson with his team-high sixth goal of the season.
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Rantanen → add → season
Tyler Seguin and Justin Hryckowian also scored for the Stars, who have won five consecutive games.
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who → score → games
Jake Oettinger made 16 saves.
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Oettinger → make → saves
Defenceman Matthew Schaefer, Kyle Palmieri and Brayden Schenn scored for the Islanders, who erased three one-goal deficits only to lose two straight (0-1-1) for the first time this season.
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who → score → time
Ilya Sorokin stopped 32 shots allowing a season high in goals.
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Sorokin → stop → goals
Johnston scored from the slot 4:10 into the final period on a feed from Nils Lundqvist.
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Johnston → score → Lundqvist
After scoring a career-most 45 goals last season, Johnston has goals in consecutive games after going goalless in his first seven outings.
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Johnston → score → outings
Elsewhere in the NHL on Sunday:
PANTHERS 3 BLACKHAWKS 2
CHICAGO (AP) — Lars Eller’s first goal of the season, with 2:23 left in the third period, lifted Florida to a win over Chicago.
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goal → leave → Chicago
Eller beat Spencer Knight with a high shot just inside the left post as he raced down the right wing and took advantage of a Chicago line change.
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he → beat → change
Matthew Tkachuk and Sandis Vilmanis also scored for Florida, which ended a two-game losing streak.
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which → score → streak
Roman Kantserov and Ryan Greene connected for Chicago, which has dropped three straight.
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which → connect → three
Akira Schmid made 19 saves, while Knight stopped 29 shots.
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Knight → make → shots
The Blackhawks failed to score on seven power-play chances, including two brief 5-on-3 advantages, lowering their NHL-worst conversion rate to 8.33 per cent.
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Blackhawks → fail → cent
CANADIENS 2 JETS 1
WINNIPEG, Man. (AP) — Jacob Fowler made 33 saves and Montreal held off Winnipeg in the NHL Heritage Classic at Princess Auto Stadium.
Lane Hutson and Kaiden Guhle scored and Cole Caufield had two assists to help Montreal improve to 6-3-2.
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Montreal → make → 6
The Canadiens opened a four-game trip Friday with a 4-1 victory over Chicago.
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Canadiens → open → Chicago
Fowler has won his last five starts.
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Fowler → win → starts
Isak Rosen scored for Winnipeg with 4:46 remaining at the home of the Canadian Football League’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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Rosen → score → Bombers
Stuart Skinner stopped 19 shots for the Jets (4-4-3).
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Skinner → stop → Jets
The Jets became just the second Canadian team after Edmonton to host two outdoor games.
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Jets → become → games
The Jets also were blanked 3-0 by the Oilers in the first one, but spoiled Calgary’s 2019 outdoor game at Mosaic Stadium in Regina with a 2-1 overtime win.
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Jets → blank → win
It was Winnipeg’s first game since trading franchise goalie Connor Hellebuyck to the New Jersey Devils on Friday.
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It → trade → Friday
Dawson Mercer, who headlined the return from the Devils, had two shots and one blocked shot in 15:22 of ice time.
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who → headline → time
Ryan O’Reilly had two goals and two assists, Steven Stamkos added two goals and an assist, and Nashville beat Colorado.
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Nashville → have → Colorado
Filip Forsberg had a goal and two assists, and Jack Drury also scored for the Predators, who had lost their previous two.
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who → have → two
Justus Annunen made 19 saves for his first victory of the season.
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Annunen → make → season
Artturi Lehkonen and Devon Toews scored and Scott Wedgewood made 29 saves for Colorado, losers of three of four.
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Wedgewood → score → four
Nashville converted on four of seven opportunities on the power play in the game, including both of O’Reilly’s goals.
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Nashville → convert → goals
The Predators had just one opportunity with the man advantage in each of their previous three games.
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Predators → have → games
Forsberg scored the game’s first goal at 4:01 of the opening period.
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Forsberg → score → period
With the Predators on the power play, Stamkos blocked an attempted clear and the puck went to Roman Josi, who sent a pass to Forsberg, who beat Wedgewood with a wrist shot from the high slot.
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who → block → slot
Josi had three assists.
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Josi → have → assists
Former Vancouver captain Quinn Hughes had a goal to reach 500 NHL points and added an assist in his return to Rogers Arena in Minnesota’s victory over the Canucks.
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Hughes → have → Canucks
Traded to Minnesota in December, Hughes was booed throughout the night.
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Hughes → trade → night
He scored on a power player midway through the second period to make it 3-0, and set up Kirill Kaprizov’s NHL-leading 13th goal early in the third for a 4-0 advantage.
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it → score → advantage
In 13 games this season, Hughes has three goals and 13 assists.
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Hughes → have → goals
Picked seventh overall by the Canucks in 2018, Hughes played 6 1/2 seasons in Vancouver before the blockbuster trade sent him to Minnesota.
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trade → pick → Minnesota
The deal saw Vancouver acquire Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren, defenceman Zeev Buium and the Wild’s first-round pick in the 2026 NHL draft.
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Vancouver → see → draft
Kaprizov and Maxim Shabanov also each had a goal and assist, and Bobby Brink scored.
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Brink → have → goal
…and 6 more, not listed.
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