DALLAS (AP) — Jamie Benn wasn’t impressed with his 600th career point
Womens Vladimir Sobotka Jersey , or his 601st.Those two power-play goals, and three others by his linemates, were more than enough for the Dallas Stars to
beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-1 on Saturday night.When asked whether he’d thought
about 600, Benn answered simply, “No.”Tyler Seguin — who had two goals, one on
the power play, and two assists — had more to say.“It’s great,” he said. “He’s a
heck of hockey player. He deserves accolades like that.”Jim Montgomery has won
his first two games as a head coach with captain Benn’s help.“That’s about 594
more than I ever had,” Montgomery said. “It just speaks volumes about what he’s
done here in his career.”Benn entered the game with 598 points, and assisted on
Seguin’s first goal for No. 599.Winnipeg had beaten Dallas eight straight times
dating to Oct. 27, 2016.Dallas dominated the first period with a 16-9 advantage
in shots and two goals less than three minutes apart by Alexander Radulov and
Seguin, the latter on the power play with Benn assisting.Benn scored power-play
goals in the second and third periods, and Seguin scored in the third.“We didn’t
give ourselves a chance to get going
http://www.stlouisbluesteamshops.com/authentic-jake-allen-jersey ,” Jets coach Paul Maurice said. “In the penalty box too much early and not very
effective on the kill here at all tonight.”The Stars’ top line accounted for all
five goals and five assists. Radulov also had two assists.“You’ve got Seguin
with the unbelievable shot,” Jets center Adam Lowry said. “Benn’s kind of the
prototypical power forward. He’s got speed, but he’s got skill and he plays a
heavy game. Radulov, you see the hand skill, the body.”Ben Bishop finished with
32 saves for Dallas, 15 in the third period. Connor Hellebuyck had 30 for
Winnipeg.“When we have our healthy (Bishop) back there, we’re a dangerous team,”
Stars defenseman Marc Methot said.Radulov scored for the second time in the
first two games on a wrist shot from a sharp angle below the right faceoff
circle. The puck hit defenseman Tyler Myers’ left leg and went in off
Hellebuyck’s right skate at 8:23. Seguin lifted a wrist shot from the right
circle off Hellebuyck and into the net at 11:18.In the second period, the Jets’
Kyle Connor scored his second goal of the season and the first against Bishop
after 82 minutes, 10 seconds.The first period ended with 14 minutes of penalties
in the final second. At 19:59, the Methot went off for holding and Winnipeg’s
Dustin Byfuglien retaliated with a cross checking penalty. On the ensuing
faceoff, Brett Ritchie of Dallas and Lowry dropped their gloves and drew
fighting majors at 20:00.NOTES: The Dallas record for power-play goals in a game
is four, achieved 10 times. Defenseman Philippe Boucher in 2006 was the only
Star with three power-play goals in a game. … Dallas was 3 for 5 on the power
play
Vladimir Tarasenko Jersey , Winnipeg 0 for 3. … Hellebuyck’s personal regular-season winning streak ended at 10, including his last nine games last
season. … Connor Carrick’s assist on Radulov’s goal was his third in the first
two games. Carrick’s highest total in his four previous seasons was eight
assists for Toronto in 2017-18. His had three assists in a three-game span as a
rookie in February 2014.UP NEXTJets: Play their home opener against Los Angeles
on Tuesday night.Stars: Continue a four-game opening homestand with the third
game on Tuesday night vs. Toronto. CALGARY, Alberta (AP) Michael Frolik took a
pass from Mikael Backlund in the slot and fired a shot past goalie Semyon
Varlamov just 18 seconds after the opening faceoff. The Calgary Flames didn’t
let up.Jon Gillies made 28 saves for his second straight victory, Backlund had a
goal and two assists and the Flames beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-1 on
Saturday.”I thought we had a good start,” Backlund said. ”We needed that,
especially at home. We’ve been struggling with that. It was a very big win for
us.”Troy Brouwer added a goal and an assist to help Calgary pass St. Louis for
the final Western Conference wild-card spot. Mark Giordano and Sean Monahan also
scored, and Matthew Tkachuk had two assists.”We don’t have a lot of time to
waste as far as accumulating points to get ourselves into the playoffs,” Brouwer
said. ”Anaheim’s really starting to come on lately. L.A.’s made a trade and made
themselves better. We have to make sure that we’re keeping up with them and when
we play them head-to-head we have to get wins. It doesn’t really matter how
we’re getting points, we just need to keep accumulating points as much as we
can.”Called up from Stockton of the AHL with starting goalie Mike Smith
sidelined by a lower-body injury, Gillies made his second straight start and
fourth appearance of the season. The 6-foot-6 former Providence College goalie
beat Arizona 5-2 on the road Thursday night.Before the game, Calgary placed
Smith on injured reserve. He has missed six games.Nathan MacKinnon scored for
Colorado, and Semyon Varlamov stopped 24 shots. The Avalanche were 1-1-1 on a
three-game trip.”We give up one first shift of the game and then we’re kind of
chasing,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. ”To be honest
Alex Killorn Jersey Kids , I liked our first period. We had all four lines skating and playing hard and we were on our toes and put up 15 shots. We
had a handful of turnovers that ended up coming back on us.”Just past the
five-minute mark of the first, Gillies stopped a shot by MacKinnon, then slid
across to get his left pad on Tyson Barrie’s rebound attempt.Giordano made it
2-0 at 7:24 when he took Backlund’s pass and fired a one-timer past Varlamov.The
Avalanche pulled within one on MacKinnon’s goal with 3:36 remaining in the
first. MacKinnon dumped the puck in and it bounced off the post and Gillies
before trickling in.”Nothing you can do about it, good or bad,” Gillies said.
”You just have to respond. If you want to classify it as a bad goal, OK, then
you owe your team a save and that’s the mindset you take on and go from
there.”In the second, Gillies made a nice glove save off J.T. Compher during a
Colorado power play.Monahan deflected Michael Stone’s point shot past Varlamov
on the power play at 10:50 for his team-leading 29th goal. Calgary has scored at
least one power-play goal in six straight games and eight of its last
nine.Brouwer snapped a shot to the blocker side past Varlamov at 2:39 of the
third. Backlund scored Calgary’s second power-play goal of the game at 14:46 to
round out the scoring.”The third period obviously wasn’t one we wanted to see
out of our group, but we’ll regroup and rest up,” Colorado captain Gabriel
Landeskog said.NOTES: The Flames ended a stretch of eight straight games where
they allowed the first goal. … The Flames recalled forwards Tanner Glass and
Andrew Mangiapane from Stockton, and sent forward Ryan Lomberg back to the
Heat.UP NEXTAvalanche: Host Vancouver on Monday night.Flames: At Dallas on
Tuesday night.
