Third-period goals lead Stars past Canucks
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Tyler Seguin and Radek Faksa scored in the third period to propel the Dallas Stars to a 4-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night.
Seguin gave the Stars a 3-2 lead at 9:07 of the final frame as he fired in a slapshot during a power play. Faksa provided an insurance marker just over six minutes later after a giveaway by Canucks defenseman Troy Stecher near his team's net.
The Stars (28-32-10) posted their first win in five games after Seguin called for his team to show more pride following a one-sided loss in Edmonton. They prevailed in a battle of struggling clubs that will likely miss the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Canucks (28-33-9) lost their fifth straight game, with all of the losses coming in a five-game homestand. The Stars improved to 12-0-1 in their past 13 games against Vancouver -- and also moved ahead of the Canucks into 11th place in the Western Conference.
Ales Hemsky and Esa Lindell scored first-period goals for the Stars.
Sven Baertschi and Ben Hutton scored for the Canucks as coach Willie Desjardins began a commitment to give more ice time to young players during the stretch drive of the season.
Vancouver goaltender Ryan Miller posted 32 saves in the loss while Dallas counterpart Kari Lehtonen made 26 as the Stars outshot the Canucks 36-28.
NOTES: Stars captain Jamie Benn did not return after a second-period fight with Nikita Tryamkin. According to a Stars post on Twitter, he suffered an upper-body injury. ... Dallas W Ales Hemsky's first-period goal was his first in almost a year. He had not scored since March 24, 2016, at Arizona. ... The Stars will close out their four-game trip Friday in Calgary as they play the second of back-to-back contests. ... The Canucks wore green warmup jerseys in honor of St. Patrick's Day. ... Stars D Jamie Oleksiak attended the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where his 16-year-old sister Penny won four swimming medals, including gold in the 100-meter freestyle, for Canada.