DALLAS (AP) — Jake Oettinger stopped 14 shots and earned his 17th career shutout as the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 5-0 on Monday for their first victory of the NHL season.
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The Sharks were without star centre Macklin Celebrini, who was scratched a few minutes before the start of the game due to a lower-body injury.
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who → scratch → injury
Jamie Benn had a goal and an assist, and Miro Heiskanen, Joel Kiviranta, Jason Robertson and Mikko Rantanen also scored for Dallas.
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Heiskanen → have → Dallas
Heiskanen’s goal on a backhand shot with 1:09 left in the first period proved to be the winner.
Yaroslav Askarov had 21 saves for the Sharks.
Celebrini, who was recently named San Jose’s captain, took part in warm-ups but left the ice earlier than usual.
Former Stars forward Ty Dellandrea made his season debut in place of Celebrini, the 20-year-old face of the franchise who assisted on Igor Chernyshov’s overtime goal Saturday that made San Jose 2-0.
Elsewhere in the NHL on Monday:
LIGHTNING 4 FLYERS 1
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Pontus Holmberg and Ilya Mikheyev each had a goal and assist, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 13 shots to move into a tie for 20th place on the NHL career wins list, and Tampa Bay beat Philadelphia 4-1.
Vasilevskiy’s 372nd victory moved him into a tie with Andy Moog.
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Vasilevskiy needs two more wins to tie John Vanbiesbrouck for 19th place.
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Brayden Point and Brandon Hagel also scored for the Lightning, who have won two games since an opening-night loss to the New York Rangers.
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Tyson Foerster scored for Philadelphia and Dan Vladar finished with 32 saves.
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Vladar → score → saves
The Flyers are winless (0-2-2) through four games to start the season for the first time since 2013-14.
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Philadelphia has been held to two or fewer goals in all four games.
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Point scored his first goal of the season with a deflection off a wrist shot from John Carlson at 16:05 of the first period.
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Holmberg scored 17 seconds into the second period off the rush for a 2-0 lead.
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Holmberg → score → lead
Foerster wheeled a shot from the top of the left circle that hit Tampa Bay defenceman Charle-Edouard D’Astous in front of the net to bring Philadelphia with one at 7:22.
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that → wheel → 7:22
Mikheyev made it 3-1 with a wraparound with three minutes to play.
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Hagel added an empty-netter.
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Nikita Kucherov picked up two assists and now has 1,128 career points to move past Mike Bossy and Joe Nieuwendyk for 67th place.
SENATORS 4 BRUINS 1
BOSTON (AP) — Tim Stutzle had two goals and an assist and goalies Linus Ullmark and Samuel Ersson combined to stop 18 of 19 shots as Ottawa defeated Boston 4-1.
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Stutzle’s multi-point game moved him into sole possession of sixth place for most points in Ottawa history with 413.
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Ullmark started in goal for Ottawa, but wasn’t on the ice at the start of the third period.
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Ullmark → start → period
The one-time Bruins netminder, who stopped all 10 shots he faced in the first two periods, was on the bench five minutes into the final period.
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he → stop → period
Ersson made eight saves in the final period for the Senators.
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Ottawa’s Michael Amadio had a goal and assist, and Drake Batherson also scored.
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Batherson → have → goal
Boston rookie James Hagens spoiled Ottawa’s shutout bid with a goal in the third period.
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Hagens → spoil → period
Jeremy Swayman made 20 saves for the Bruins, who have lost two straight after opening the season with two wins.
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who → make → wins
Boston was outshot 24-19 and failed to score on four power plays.
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Boston → outshoot → plays
Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist, Clay Stevenson made 30 saves, and Winnipeg beat Pittsburgh 3-2.
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Winnipeg → have → Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh’s Declan Carlile scored 8:53 into the third period to tie the game at 2-2, but Cole Perfetti scored the winner on a wrist shot just nine seconds later, assisted by Josh Morrissey.
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Perfetti → score → Morrissey
Adam Lowry also scored for the Jets, who have won two in a row after losing their season opener in overtime.
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who → score → overtime
Benjamin Kindel also scored for the Penguins and Carlile added an assist.
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Carlile → score → assist
Sergei Murashov made 30 saves for the Penguins.
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Murashov → make → Penguins
The Jets outhit the Penguins 23 to 11.
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