Benn caps Stars’ comeback vs. Canucks

Vancouver is 0-3 with the new three-on-three setup while this is the Stars first taste of it on the season. There’s a big difference between losing a game like this and getting a win.

Miller is 0-4-1 with a 4.35 goals-against average in his last five starts against the Stars, however, and surrendered five goals on 13 shots before being pulled early in the second period of his lone encounter with them last season, a 6-3 loss at American Airlines Center on October 21, 2014. That success continued this year as the Stars came back from a 3-1 deficit and won on the shoulders of a Jamie Benn overtime goal.

Dallas pushes to 8-2-0 on the season and leads the Western Conference.

Vancouver regained the lead at 5:38 of the second period when Edler’s slap shot from the left point beat Niemi for a power-play goal.

Benn scored after skating out of the corner with the puck, shooting from just inside the right faceoff dot 2:28 into overtime. Dallas D John Klingberg has a six-game point streak, with two goals and five assists….

Jagr leads the Panthers with six goals and 10 points.

On the game-winner, Benn curled into the slot in the NHL’s new three-on-three overtime and had plenty of fire.

“I saw him locked and loaded there for about 10 seconds”, Benn said. “I just have to go out there and keep playing my game and work whatever partner I am with and just play my game”.

The Dallas Stars are well known for their in-game entertainment troll jobs, but their latest attempt might have backfired and upset their own fan base.

So they did earn the win.

In these first ten match-ups and after last night’s game winning Overtime goal, Benn has nine goals and eight assists. After missing most of last season, he’s not quite up to speed yet but every game is progressing. “Then we got a couple breaks too, but they got it going”.

Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich founding Metallica, and while my distaste for the band’s path post-And Justice For All remains, it would be wrong for me not to acknowledge the band that played such a huge role in crafting my love for metal. That’s what happened tonight. “I’m sure it will be a nervous day for him and he will be running on a few nerves and that is a good thing, so we will just go from there”. Stars goaltender Antti Niemi stopped 29 of 32 shots.

“I think the first three losses we had chances first”, Burrows said. “He kept us there”.

Patrick Sharp twice tied the game with goals for Dallas. The puck somehow eluded Vancouver goalie Ryan Miller and slipped in at 15:05 of the first period for Sharp’s second goal of the season. Canucks coach Willie Desjardins is a former Stars assistant who coached Dallas’ AHL affiliate to the Calder Cup championship in 2014. “The part that we’re trying to be real good at is once they get in our zone, we don’t want to give up an opportunity like Benn got”.