Wyatt Johnston scored the shootout winner and had three assists to give the host Dallas Stars a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.
Mikko Rantanen scored twice to eclipse 300 career goals and had an assist, and Miro Heiskanen also scored for the Stars, who extended their point streak to seven games (4-0-3). Casey DeSmith stopped 23 shots. Jason Robertson scored the Stars’ other shootout goal.
Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist and Vasily Podkolzin and Leon Draisaitl had the other regulation goals for the Oilers, who blew a 2-0 lead and lost for the second straight night. Jack Roslovic had two assists and Stuart Skinner made 24 saves.
Draisaitl scored in the shootout.
Heiskanen tied the game 3-3 with 7:40 left when he slotted a putback off the backboard for his third goal of the season.
Rantanen’s power play goal 9:10 into the second period made it 2-1.
He fired a falling backhand shot during a rush for the 300th goal of his career, becoming the fourth Finnish player to reach that mark. He joins Jari Kurri, Teemu Selanne and Olli Jokinen.
McDavid restored the two-goal lead at 7:51 of the third period when he scored from the bottom of the left circle after scoring his fourth goal of the year. McDavid hit the goal post earlier in the period.
But it only took 46 seconds for Rantanen to make it 3-2 with his seventh goal at 8:37 on a shot from the slot after the race.
Rantanen hit the goal post on a breakaway about 12 seconds into the middle period.
Edmonton scored twice in the first seven minutes of the first period to take a 2-0 lead.
Podkolzin opened the scoring at 3:40 when he completed a cross-court pass from the bottom of the left circle on the run for his second goal. The pass was a one-handed effort from Roslovic.
Draisaitl scored a power play goal at 7:07. He connected on his patented one-timer along the goal line in the right corner. It was his 10th goal.
–Field level media
