Stars 2, Jets 1 (SO)
DALLAS -- Right winger Patrick Sharp scored the clinching goal in the shootout and goaltender Kari Lehtonen stopped 32 of 33 shots in a 2-1 Stars' victory against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday at American Airlines Center, snapping Dallas' three-game losing streak.
After Stars center Tyler Seguin beat Jets rookie goaltender Connor Hellebuyck through his five-hole on Dallas' first attempt, Lehtonen stopped an attempt by right winger Blake Wheeler.
Sharp then beat Hellebuyck with a backhand top shelf. Jets left winger Andrew Ladd kept the visitors alive with a shot under Lehtonen's glove. Dallas clinched the win when center Bryan Little saw his shot sail high on Winnipeg's third attempt.
Dallas (29-10-4) got its lone goal in regulation from Seguin.
Winnipeg (19-19-3), which finished its five-game road trip at 2-2-1, got its lone goal from center Mathieu Perreault. Hellebuyck stopped 23 of 24 shots in a losing effort.
Seguin gave Dallas an early lead with his 24th goal of the season 7:55 into the game. After Sharp's attempted pass from behind the Winnipeg goal deflected off the stick of Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba and landed at Seguin's skates, Seguin finished with a wrist shot from the slot that sailed in under the Hellebuyck's glove.
Seguin's 24 goals ties him with Stars left winger Jamie Benn and St. Louis right winger Vladimir Tarasenko for the NHL lead. Seguin's 51 points rank third in the league.
Sharp's assist gives him a point in 11 consecutive games, the longest streak of his career.
The Jets pulled things level early in the second when Perreault scored his fifth goal of the season on a wrist shot from the slot. Jets defenseman Tyler Myers started the sequence with a pass off the boards to right winger Nikolaj Ehlers.
Ehlers then fed a streaking Perreault, who scored his sixth goal of the season with a flick that went under Lehtonen's blocker 6:47 into the middle frame.
NOTES: Jets D Adam Pardy, RW Anthony Peluso and D Paul Postma were scratched. ... Stars D Jordie Benn (lower body), LW Travis Moen and D Jamie Oleksiak were scratched. ... Stars G Kari Lehtonen started for the second time in the past five games. ... Jets G Connor Hellebuyck started for the 11th time in the past 13 games. ... Stars C Cody Eakin and RW Patrick Sharp are Winnipeg natives. ... Jets LW Andrew Ladd was teammates with Sharp and G Antti Niemi with Chicago during their run to the 2010 Stanley Cup. ... Stars LW Jamie Benn and C Tyler Seguin were named to the 2016 NHL All-Star Game on Wednesday and Stars coach Lindy Ruff will coach them. ... Jets D Dustin Byfuglien was also named an NHL All-Star. ... Winnipeg, which finished its five-game road trip, begins a three-game homestand Sunday against the Buffalo Sabres. ... Dallas concludes its two-game homestand Saturday against the Minnesota Wild.