Robertson scores twice, adds Benn Tally as Stars beat Golden Knights 4-3

Associated Press

DALLAS (AP)—Jason Robertson scored twice, captain Jamie Benn chipped in a goal and the Dallas Stars beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 on Friday night.

Roope Hintz also scored and Matt Duchene, Wyatt Johnston and Evgenii Dadonov had two assists apiece as the Stars evened the season series 1-1 in a matchup of teams that have also shared two playoff meetings the last two seasons.

Jake Oettinger made 18 saves, including a sprawling stop with his left leg on a point-blank attempt by Pavel Dorofeyev with 22 seconds left.

Jack Eichel scored twice and Shea Theodore added a goal for the Golden Knights, who started the night still atop the Pacific Division but fell to 2-6-1 in their previous nine games.

Mark Stone had three assists for Vegas and Tomas Hertl added a helper to tie his career-best eight-game point streak from 2021-22 with San Jose. Adin Hill finished with 23 saves.

Takeaways

Golden Knights: Vegas extended a franchise record by scoring on the power play for an eighth consecutive game, but Victor Olofsson’s club-best road point streak ended at 10 games. The Golden Knights went 2 for 3 against the NHL’s best penalty kill team.

Stars: Robertson’s second multi-goal game of the season gave him 17, three behind Hintz. The club’s team leader answered Eichel’s game-opening goal with his 20th, also on the power play, in the first period.

Key moment

Vegas’ Noah Hanifin had a breakaway chance to get out of the penalty box in the second period, but missed just into an open net. Robertson scored his first 26 seconds later for Dallas’ first lead.

Key state

Johnston tied his career best with a six-game hitting streak.

Up next

Stars play at St. Louis on Saturday and the Golden Knights host Florida on Sunday.

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