Senators 7, Stars 4
DALLAS -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Mike Hoffman had two goals each to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 7-4 victory over the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center on Tuesday.
Right winger Mark Stone had a goal and two assists and right winger Bobby Ryan and left winger Milan Michalek also contributed goals in the win. Goaltender Craig Anderson stopped 33 shots for Ottawa (11-5-5), which was outshot 37-20 but won its third straight and is now 6-2-1 on the road.
Dallas (17-5-0), which saw its five-game winning streak snapped, got goals from left winger Patrick Sharp, ending Anderson's shutout streak at 147:04, two goals from left winger Jamie Benn and one from center Tyler Seguin.
Ryan gave the visitors and early lead when turned a turnover by Stars defenseman John Klingberg into his eighth goal of the season. Ryan deflected Klingberg's attempted clearance in the right circle, collected the puck, skated across the front of the Dallas goal before finishing by slipping the puck around Stars goaltender Antti Niemi.
Ryan now has a point in nine consecutive games. The goal came on the Senators' first shot on goal of the game.
Ottawa doubled its lead when Michalek scored his fifth goal of the season 1:11 before the first intermission. Stone won a battle in the left corner, kicking the puck to Pageau, who passed it to Michalek. Michalek then beat Niemi top shelf to the far post with a wrist shot from the left circle.
Sharp cut the Ottawa lead to 2-1 with his eighth goal of the season 7:04 into the second period. Sharp's wrist shot from the right circle beat Anderson far post. Anderson, who had two consecutive shutouts heading into the game, was last scored on in a 4-3 overtime loss against Detroit on Nov. 16.
Stone capitalized on another costly Dallas turnover, this one by right winger Patrick Eaves, to put the Senators up 3-1 at 12:33 of the second. Stone intercepted Eaves' attempted a pass to the middle of the Dallas zone and scored his fourth goal of the season off a wrist shot from the slot that struck Niemi's left pad before going in.
That goal signaled what originally appeared to be the end of Niemi's night as Kari Lehtonen replaced him in net. However, Niemi had to re-enter the game 1:05 into the third after Lehtonen was injured during a collision with Klingberg. Lehtonen made two saves in relief of Niemi, who stopped 11 of 16 shots.
Hoffman added a power-play goal to make it 4-1 before Pageau scored a short-handed goal, his NHL-leading third of the season, 4:07 into the third, converting on a breakaway to make it 5-1.
Benn then answered with a short-handed goal of his own at 6:07 and Seguin beat Anderson top shelf with a wrist shot from the right circle at 8:04 of the third to make it 5-3, but Pageau netted his second of the night with 9:29 remaining to push the Senators' lead back to three.
Benn cut it to 6-4 with his second of the night with 3:12 remaining, but Hoffman's empty-net goal with 1:42 remaining capped the scoring.
NOTES: Senators C Colin Greening and D Michael Kostka were scratched. Greening was recalled from AHL Binghamton on Monday while Kostka was recalled on Saturday. ... Stars D Jason Demers (lower body), LW Travis Moen and D Patrik Nemeth were scratched. Nemeth remains on a conditioning assignment with AHL Texas but should return later this week. ... Senators G Craig Anderson started his fifth straight game Tuesday. ... Stars G Antti Niemi was starting in back-to-back games for the first time since Oct. 31 against the Ducks and Nov. 2 at the Maple Leafs.