Wyatt Johnston scores twice to lead Stars past Sharks

Wyatt Johnston scored two goals for the visiting Dallas Stars in a 5-3 win against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.

Roope Hintz had a goal and an assist, Esa Lindell and Mikko Rantanen each had two assists, and Jake Oettinger made 34 saves for the Stars, who have won six of eight.

Collin Graf scored two goals, Shakir Mukhamadullin also scored, Macklin Celebrini had two assists, and Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves for the Sharks, who were trying to win four in a row and match their longest winning streak of the season.

The Stars took a 1-0 lead at 12:25 of the first period.

Dallas defenseman Lindell banked a pass off the wall behind the San Jose net to Rantanen, who then fed the puck from below the goal line to Hintz cutting to the front of the crease and he scored with a one-timer from in close for his 10th goal of the season.

Johnston made it 2-0 at 17:38 of the first.

Miro Heiskanen made a long diagonal pass from the right points to Johnston in the left circle. He spun away from Sharks defenseman John Klingberg and scored with a wrist shot from the slot.

San Jose cut it to 2-1 at 1:43 of the second period.

The Sharks won a faceoff in the Dallas zone and the puck went back to Mukhamadullin, who took a wrist shot from above the left circle that squeezed between the pads of Oettinger.

Dallas went on its first power play when Mukhamadullin was called for high sticking and the Stars capitalized when Johnston scored with a one-timer from the right hash marks off a feed from Rantanen to make it 3-1 at 8:40 of the second.

The Sharks cut it to 3-2 at 16:44 of the second when Graf scored from in front of the net, but Nedeljkovic misplayed the puck to Justin Hryckowian and scored with 43 seconds left in the period to re-establish the two-goal lead.

Graf scored again off a tic-tac-toe play to trim the lead to 4-3 at 4:32 of the third, but Jamie Benn scored into an empty net with 1:18 left to make it 5-3.

--Field Level Media