Seguin's late first-period goal gives Stars 2-1 win over Kraken

Tyler Seguin’s extremity successful the closing seconds of the archetypal play held up arsenic the victor and Casey DeSmith stopped 30 of 31 shots arsenic the Dallas Stars bushed the Seattle Kraken 2-1 connected Sunday night

DALLAS -- Tyler Seguin’s extremity successful the closing seconds of the archetypal play held up arsenic the victor and Casey DeSmith stopped 30 of 31 shots arsenic the Dallas Stars bushed the Seattle Kraken 2-1 connected Sunday night.

Wyatt Johnston besides scored for the Stars with his league-leading seventh power-play goal.

Jaden Schwartz ended a idiosyncratic six-game goalless streak for the Kraken.

DeSmith won the matchup of reserve goalies with some teams completing a back-to-back aft winning connected the roadworthy connected Saturday. Nine of his saves came during punishment kills.

Seattle third-string goalie Matt Murray made 22 saves successful his 2nd commencement of the season.

Dallas’ Miro Heiskanen had 2 assists giving him 8 successful the past 3 games and 3 consecutive multipoint games. Heiskanen besides drew 2 of the Kraken’s 4 penalties.

The Stars are 11-1-1 each clip vs. Seattle successful regular-season play, 6-0-1 astatine home.

Seguin scored with 32.2 seconds near successful the opening play with a backhander slid astatine the adjacent station nether Murray’s close pad and crossed the extremity line.

Schwartz’s redirection gave Seattle a 1-0 pb 3:15 in.

Johnston tied the people little than a infinitesimal and a fractional aboriginal astir midway done the powerfulness play.

The Stars, with the league’s champion location powerfulness play, person scored astatine slightest 1 power-play extremity successful 9 of their past 10 wide games.

Dallas’ location punishment kill, second-to-worst successful the NHL, went 3-for-3.

Joey Daccord, Seattle’s No. 1 goalie, is sidelined with a lower-body injury. Daccord hasn’t played since leaving Wednesday’s 6-1 nonaccomplishment to San Jose aboriginal successful the 3rd play aft allowing 5 goals connected 20 shots.

Kraken: Host Columbus connected Tuesday.

Stars: At Ottawa connected Tuesday.

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