‘Executed At A High Level’: Dallas Stars Beat New York Islanders 6-3 For Fifth Straight Win As Jason Robertson Scores Twic

DALLAS — Jason Robertson scored twice Sunday night, and the Dallas Stars broke a 3-3 tie with three goals in the third period. Dallas beat the New York Islanders 6-3 at American Airlines Center for its fifth straight win and moved to 7-3-1.

Wyatt Johnston put the Stars ahead for good 4:10 into the third with a wrist shot from the slot. Robertson made it 5-3 on a breakaway at 9:45, taking a stretch pass from Tyler Seguin. Mikko Rantanen scored on a wrist shot at 13:02 after a drop pass from Lian Bichsel.

Dallas had led 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2 through two periods, and New York answered every time. The Stars finished with a 38-20 edge in shots.

“I thought we possessed the puck pretty well in the third,” Robertson said. “Kept it pretty tight defensively, and then some bounces went our way in the neutral zone, and we just come back and attack.”

Six goals is a season high for Dallas. Johnston and Seguin each finished with 1 goal and 1 assist, and Roope Hintz had 2 assists. Rantanen’s goal was his team-leading sixth of the season. It was also the 322nd goal of his career, third-most by a Finland-born player in NHL history.

“I thought we were the better team. Even through two [periods], it was even,” Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. “They had a 10-minute stretch in the second I thought they were better than us … I thought our third, we executed at a high level and created some chances and scored on them.”

Robertson has 3 goals and 5 assists during a four-game multipoint streak. Through 11 games, he has 5 goals and 8 assists.

“I mentioned the other day that we were one pass away from making it on the tape,” Robertson explained. “We executed some 2-on-1s, some odd-man rushes, and goals went in. That’s just a shot of confidence for everyone in the locker room. Look to keep building on it and keep executing.”

Tyler Seguin And Justin Hryckowian Score As New York Islanders Answer Three Times

Seguin opened the scoring at 11:31 of the first period, finishing a 2-on-1 with Jamie Benn. It was Seguin’s third goal of the season.

“You saw a lot of 2-on-1s,” Gulutzan explained. “Part of our game plan today was not to force the issue when they had numbers back, but when they didn’t, capitalize on the times we could make a rush, the 2-on-1s and those sort of things. But it did turn into a little bit of a rush game, and I thought our guys did a good job.”

Matthew Schaefer tied it at 13:43 during 4-on-4 play, skating down the left side and snapping a shot over Jake Oettinger’s right shoulder and under the crossbar. The 19-year-old defenseman moved into second place for goals by a teenage defenseman in NHL history. He has 25 goals in 93 career games.

Robertson restored the lead 49 seconds later during the same 4-on-4. He knocked down a pass from Brayden Schenn behind the net, skated to the front, and beat Ilya Sorokin’s glove from point-blank range.

Kyle Palmieri tied it 2-2 at 4:01 of the second period. Ryan Pulock’s point shot came off the end boards to Palmieri, who backhanded it past Oettinger before the goaltender could recover.

“I think we could’ve been tighter in our D-zone, ended more plays,” Palmieri said. “That’s how we’re gonna be successful. We’ve seen that recipe and what it looks like, especially these last couple games. For whatever reasons, we weren’t executing breaking the puck out and weren’t doing a great job ending plays in our D-zone.”

Justin Hryckowian put Dallas back in front on the power play at 10:52. Thomas Harley’s point shot came off the boards above the goal line, and Hryckowian backhanded it in. Johnston had an assist on the goal.

Schenn tied it 3-3 at 17:45, taking a pass from Anthony Duclair behind the net and beating Oettinger blocker side with a quick snap shot. It was Schenn’s third goal of the season.

“They’re a good team. They’ve got lots of skilled players,” Schenn said. “When you give them transition, they come at you at full speed.”

Dylan Hryckowian And Matthew Seminoff Make NHL Debuts For Dallas Stars

Forwards Dylan Hryckowian and Matthew Seminoff each played their first NHL game. Hryckowian started alongside his older brother, Justin, and finished plus-1 in 10:03 of ice time. Seminoff had 2 shots on goal in 8:53.

Dallas played without forwards Radek Faksa and Sam Steel. Faksa has a lower-body injury after leaving the third period of Thursday’s 3-2 overtime win over the Winnipeg Jets. Steel received an injection Friday as part of treatment for an undisclosed injury, and Gulutzan said both could also miss Tuesday’s game.

The Stars went 3-for-3 on the penalty kill. They have killed 20 straight penalties over their last five games.

The night also marked the return of Islanders coach Peter DeBoer, who coached Dallas for three seasons from 2022-25. DeBoer took over New York with four games left last season.

“We had some self-inflicted stuff tonight,” DeBoer said. “That’s probably the most rush chances we’ve given up the entire year in one game. So some stuff you got to clean up, and the lesson in that is we can’t play that game against good teams.”

Sorokin made 32 saves and allowed a season-high 6 goals, and Oettinger made 17 saves at the other end. Bo Horvat had 2 assists for the Islanders, who fell to 5-4-2. New York’s five-game point streak (3-0-2) ended, and it has lost two straight (0-1-1) for the first time this season.

Dallas hosts the New Jersey Devils at 7 p.m. CT Tuesday in the fourth game of its six-game homestand. The Islanders play at the Nashville Predators on Tuesday.