Blackhawks score 2 shootout goals to defeat Stars
Nick Lardis and Ryan Donato scored in the shootout to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 win over the host Dallas Stars on Saturday night.
Tyler Bertuzzi had two goals and Jason Dickinson scored for the Blackhawks, who snapped their six-game losing streak. Defenseman Alex Vlasic had two assists and Arvid Soderblom made 28 saves.
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists while defenseman Nils Lundkvist and Justin Hryckowian had goals for the Stars, who lost in overtime for the second straight game. Wyatt Johnston contributed three assists and Jake Oettinger stopped 30 shots.
Matt Duchene scored in the shootout. Jason Robertson and Johnston each hit two goal posts.
Rantanen has a six-game point streak (two goals, 10 assists for 12 points).
He and Bertuzzi traded goals 53 seconds apart with less than 10 minutes left in regulation.
Rantanen poked the puck in after a shot attempt hit him at the side of the net with 8:42 left in the third period to make it 3-2.
But Bertuzzi fired in a loose puck from in front with 7:35 remaining in the third for his second of the game to tie the game at 3.
Dickinson gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead in the middle of the second period but that advantage lasted only 55 seconds.
He scored on a wrist shot from the high slot off the rush with 9:23 left in the middle period. Dickinson played with Dallas from 2015-16 to 2020-21.
Hryckowian re-tied it with 8:28 remaining in the second when he put in the rebound of Johnston's shot off the goal post.
Hryckowian has a five-game point streak (three goals, two assists).
Bertuzzi gave the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead 3:20 into the game when he put Vlasic's cross-crease pass into the empty side of the net from the bottom of the right circle.
Bertuzzi had gone six games without a point. Fourteen of his 18 goals have come on the road.
Lundkvist tied the game with 8:29 left in the first period on a one-time slap shot from the right point.