Down 3-0, Stars rally past Wild in OT

The Canucks got one point on a night they probably deserved two.

The difference was special teams.

“Five-on-five, I thought we deserved another point”, Henrik Sedin said. Did you expect anyone else to get the goal?

Meanwhile, another Vancouver winning streak has ended at a single game. Minnesota goaltender Devan Dubnyk had started 13 straight games. That likely won’t change until they get more consistent play from the special teams. “We didn’t have our timing right and had a tough time setting up”.

As exciting as this brand of game is, and as many comebacks as the Stars seem to have hidden up their jersey sleeves, it is only a matter of time before they dig a hole too deep.

“Our penalty-kill is in rough shape right now”, said winger Jannik Hansen.

“We’re finding ways to win, and, obviously a year ago we were finding ways to lose”, Seguin said.

The Stars beat the Canucks 3-2 in overtime earlier in the season, and found a way to win in a shootout in this one.

Vancouver had six minutes of power-play time in the first and couldn’t score.

The improved play in net has given Benn and Seguin the support they need, which has allowed Dallas to become one of the best teams in the National Hockey League.

Less than five minutes later, with Minnesota on a power play, Benn got his league-leading 18th goal, snapping a high shot past Kuemper for Dallas’ third short-handed goal of the season.

I may be a blogger, but the level of criticism that Sbisa endured last season-and during the summer-made me cringe.

Dallas regained the lead when Spezza took a pass from Klingberg, skated down into the right circle and lifted a slap shot over Miller to a narrow opening in the upper-right corner of the net. Yeo made clear he expected his slumping team to respond with a “real strong purpose” early in Saturday’s redemption game against the Dallas Stars so seldom-used backup goalie Darcy Kuemper could settle in. “I’d like to make a save on Spezza”.

Tyler Seguin finally put an end to the nonsense 3:57 into OT with a backhand shot assisted by both Jamie Benn and John Klingberg, which resulted in what I’m sure was somehow simultaneously the most exhausted and most exuberant of cellys. “We weren’t getting great looks, but we were getting good zone time”. It came in Fontaine’s first game since spraining a knee ligament October 30. Rookie Jake Virtanen was a healthy scratch…The Canucks chartered post-game to Southern California. Wild 1, Stars 0.

Only five of Benn’s 17 goals have come on the road and none in the last five such games. The Stars were 0 of 2 on the power play…. It was another rough night in the faceoff circle for rookie centre Jared McCann, who won just two of 11 draws…

The last minutes were a frenzied scuffle and absolute barrage of the nets, but neither team could notch the game victor, sending the contest into overtime. Dallas dropped a 7-4 home-ice decision to the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday… The Capitals will only enjoy three home games through January 9. Seguin, Benn, Klingberg and Cody Eakin all finished with two points.