Stars blow 3rd-period lead, still nip Golden Knights in shootout

Mavrik Bourque scored two goals and Jason Robertson and Mikko Rantanen tallied in the shootout as the Dallas Stars overcame a three-goal third-period comeback by the Vegas Golden Knights to pull out a 5-4 victory on Thursday in Las Vegas.

It was the first multi-goal game of Bourque's career. Matt Duchene and Wyatt Johnston also scored for the Stars, who won their third straight game.

Dallas' Sam Steel and Jamie Benn each collected two assists. Stars goalie Jake Oettinger made 17 saves and also stopped shootout tries by Pavel Dorofeyev and Jack Eichel to pick up his 21st win, tied for fourth in the NHL.

Mitch Marner and Keegan Kolesar each had a goal and an assist, Reilly Smith scored a short-handed goal and Ivan Barbashev also found the net for Vegas, which took its fifth loss in the past six games (1-3-2) and fell into a tie for first-place tie with the Edmonton Oilers in the Pacific Division.

Adin Hill finished with 23 saves for the Golden Knights, who dropped to 1-6 in shootouts.

Vegas, trailing 4-1 entering the third period, pulled closer on Smith's short-handed goal at 4:04. Smith scored at the end of a 2-on-1 rush with Kolesar, who had poked the puck away from Jason Robertson at the right point to start the break.

Barbashev scored his first goal in 17 games with 6:06 remaining to cut the deficit to one. The Stars then twice had chances to seal it when Rantanen hit the post on a breakaway and Duchene missed a long empty-net try with 52.8 seconds left.

Marner tied it with a 6-on-5 goal, ripping a shot from the left point shot through traffic off the crossbar and in with 49 seconds left, sending the game into overtime.

Dallas jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 1:37 mark of the first period on Duchene's fourth goal in three games, a sharp-angled shot from near the right goal line into the top far corner.

Vegas tied it early in the second period when Kolesar converted a Marner pass from the left corner with a shot over Oettinger's left pad.

The Stars regained the lead midway through the middle period after Robertson knocked the puck away from Kolesar along the end boards to Roope Hintz, who then whipped a pass to Bourque in the low slot. Bourque snapped a shot inside the left post.

Dallas scored twice in the span of 2:27 to increase its lead to 4-1. Bourque connected on a one-timer from the slot past a stickless Hill off a Benn pass. Johnston followed with the Stars' third goal on five shots, roofing his own rebound from the slot at 16:43.

--Field Level Media