Jason Robertson had two targets and scored for the fourth straight sport because the Dallas Stars used a four-goal first interval to beat the Arizona Coyotes 7-2 on Thursday night time.
Denis Gurianov, Wyatt Johnston and Ty Dellandrea joined Robertson with targets within the first interval, Robertson scored on an influence play within the second and Jamie Benn and Jani Hakanpaa tallied within the third for Dallas. Scott Wedgewood had 28 saves to beat his former crew.
Robertson has seven targets this season and eight factors within the final 4 video games. Benn, Gurianov and Dellandrea had their first targets of the season.
“We took care of enterprise,” Dallas coach Peter DeBoer mentioned. “I appreciated our sport. We got here out able to play. We bought rewarded for it early, after which we did sufficient the remainder of the way in which.
Juuso Valimaki and Lawson Crouse scored within the third interval for Arizona. Connor Ingram gave up three targets on 10 photographs earlier than he was pulled halfway by means of the primary interval. Karel Vejmelka got here on and stopped 22 of the 26 photographs he confronted.
“We bought ouplayed within the first interval,” Crouse mentioned. “It’s so simple as that. We bought outworked. They put up 4 after which we’re chasing the sport.”
The Central Division-leading Stars, who’ve received three of 4, are 5-1-1 within the final seven video games towards the Coyotes and 14-2-1 courting to the 2015-16 season. The Stars have received six of the final eight in Arizona.
Gurianov began a first-period barrage when he flipped in a puck from quick vary entrance after it deflected off teammate Mason Marchment’s skate 1:27 into the primary interval.
Johnston scored an unassisted objective for a 2-0 lead at 3:54 after a giveaway by Coyotes defenseman Dysin Mayo. Johnston stepped in entrance Mayo’s go and skated in alone on Ingram, scoring on a wrist shot excessive on the stick facet.
Dellandrea tipped in Colin Miller’s shot from the slot with 8:42 left within the first. It got here 17 seconds after the Coyotes killed off a 2-minute penalty however couldn’t clear the puck.
Vejmelka changed Ingram at that time, however the change didn’t sluggish the Stars. Robertson scored from the correct circle with 1:30 left within the interval.
“Persistence,” Dellandrea mentioned of Robertson. “He will get the puck. He’s so calm with it. He doesn’t run to spots. He lets the sport come to him. You may see his mind simply analyzing the play and making an attempt to get open. He’s such a wise participant.”
Robertson made it 5-0 on a tip-in on the facility play with 4:46 left within the second.
Valimaki scored his first objective to interrupt Wedgewood’s shutout at 5:07 of the third interval to make it 6-1, and Crouse added his fifth objective at 9:06.
“It’s good to get a win towards your former crew,” Wedgewood mentioned, including about 5,000-seat Mullett Area, “the ceiling could be very darkish and near you, so the pucks form of disappear slightly bit once they get excessive.”
GOODBYE, SWEET MULLETT
Arizona now heads out on a a 14-game, 33-day street journey whereas the everlasting annex housing the locker rooms at Mullett Area is completed to NHL specs. The Coyotes will play in seven states, the nation’s capital and and two Canadian provinces in the course of the journey that may log about 15,400 miles over 4 time zones. The Coyotes’ subsequent dwelling sport is Dec. 9 towards Boston.
TRAINERS ROOM
Dallas G Jake Oettinger (decrease physique), who was injured in Sunday’s loss to the New York Rangers, didn’t costume however may rejoin the Stars in a while a street journey that concludes Tuesday at Winnipeg, coach Peter DeBoer mentioned. … Coyotes F Andrew Ladd (knee), D Jakob Chychrun (wrist) and Nick Schmaltz (higher physique) had been out. Chychrun has not performed this season after offseason surgical procedure, and Schmaltz performed solely within the opener. … Coyotes F Zach Kassian (decrease physique) missed his second straight sport.
UP NEXT
Stars: At Edmonton on Saturday night time within the second of a three-game journey.
Coyotes: At Washington on Saturday night time to open a 14-game street journey.
