Benn buries overtime winner as Stars win 4-3 over Flames in Calgary – Calgary | The Canadian News

Jamie Benn scored the winning goal in overtime and Miro Heiskanen provided three assists Thursday for the Dallas Stars in a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames.

Benn picked up a pass from Joe Pavelski and sent a shot just inside the goal post on Jacob Markstrom at 2:59 of overtime.

Denis Gurianov, Blake Comeau and Tyler Seguin also scored for Dallas (4-4-2) as the Stars snapped a four-game winless streak.

Dallas has won three of a possible four points on their road trip, which concludes Sunday in Vancouver against the Canucks.

Milan Lucic, Matthew Tkachuk and Nikita Zadorov answered for Calgary (6-1-3), which extended their scoring streak to nine games (6-0-3).

Back-to-back overtime losses left the Flames 1-0-2 in a five-game home stay that continues Saturday against the New York Rangers.

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All-star goalkeeper Anton Khudobin made 30 saves for Dallas to improve to 2-1-1. At the other end, Markstrom had 24 saves and was 4-1-3.

Trailing 3-2 in the third, the most unlikely scorer tied the game for the Flames at 4:03 PM.

Zadorov landed the puck on the blue line during a four on four and fired a shot through a screen that beat Judobin. It was the defender’s first goal in 37 games dating back to February 28 of last season.

The goal came 15 seconds after Markstrom interrupted his power play by the Flames, who was penalized for hitting the puck on the trapeze.

Tied 2-2 after 40 minutes, Dallas took its second lead of the game 1:34 in the third when Seguin’s deflection of Alexander Radulov’s shot from the spot went off his post and then his midsection before falling to the network behind Markstrom.

The Stars opened the scoring in the power play at 14:09 in the first period with a tremendous play from defender Miro Heiskanen.

He skidded from the blue line to make a strong diagonal pass through the slot that Gurianov carefully directed into the net.

Heiskanen leads the Stars in scoring with 10 points (two goals, eight assists). He is one point behind a group of the best defenders in the league: Kevin Shattenkirk, Roman Josi and Adam Fox.

The Stars’ lead remained 1-0 until the second period, when the Flames scored twice in a span of less than four minutes.

Lucic tied at 3:13 p.m. deflecting a Zadorov slap past Judobin.

Shortly after that, the Flames had a two-man lead when Comeau caught Johnny Gaudreau in the face with an attempt to lift the stick.

Calgary took advantage of the 5-on-3 with Elias Lindholm putting Tkachuk in front.

But Dallas tied with just six seconds remaining in the period.

After he left the penalty area, Comeau received Michael Raffl’s puck in a two-on-one and beat Markstrom from an acute angle.

Veteran Brad Richardson made his season debut with the Flames, playing LW in line with Sean Monahan and Trevor Lewis. Richardson took the place of Brett Ritchie (lower body), who was placed in IR.

The Stars improve to 15-5-3 in their last 23 games against Calgary, which include five straight wins.