Ducks rack up 7 goals again, top Stars for fifth straight win

Chris Kreider scored two goals and the visiting Anaheim Ducks beat the Dallas Stars 7-5 on Thursday night for their fifth win in a row.

Leo Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier each had a goal and an assist to extend their point streaks to eight games and Lukas Dostal made 21 saves for the Ducks, who bounced back from a 2-0 deficit after the first period to win for the seventh time in the past eight games.

Wyatt Johnston had two goals and an assist, Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists, Miro Heiskanen had four assists and Jake Oettinger made 17 saves for the Stars, who came in on a seven-game point streak (4-0-3).

Johnston scored on a one-timer from the slot while on a power play to give the Stars a 1-0 lead at 5:49 of the first.

Dallas went back on the power play and Johnston scored on a tip to stretch the lead to 2-0 at 16:18.

The Ducks, who came in leading the NHL in goals per game at 3.92, found their game and outscored the Stars 4-1 in the second period.

Kreider scored his fifth power-play goal of the season to cut it to 2-1 at 1:16, and rookie Ian Moore followed with his first NHL goal in his 10th game, redirecting a feed from Ryan Poehling to tie it 2-2 at 2:48.

Tyler Seguin got behind the defense and scored his first goal against the Ducks in his 16-year NHL career to move the Stars back ahead 3-2 at 8:19.

Gauthier answered with his NHL-leading 11th goal of the season, a wrist shot from the right circle to tie it 3-3 at 14:07.

Olen Zellweger scored his first goal of the season at the tail end of a power play to give Anaheim a 4-3 lead at 17:05.

Kreider scored his ninth goal in nine games this season on a deflection in front of the net 16 seconds into the third period to make it 5-3, but Rantanen made the Stars 3-for-3 on the power play when he scored at 1:50 to cut it to 5-4.

Carlsson scored on a short-handed 2-on-1 break to make it 6-4 at 9:22.

Roope Hintz, who had missed the past five games with an injury, scored on a deflection to cut it to 6-5 at 16:39, but Mason McTavish scored into an empty net with 1:53 left to complete the Ducks' fourth seven-goal outburst of the season.

--Field Level Media