In Dallas, he Stars’ Nils Lundkvist hit for the game-winner on Saturday afternoon with 31 seconds left in extra time for a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings.
“I like 3-on-3, I think it’s fun,” Lundkvist said. “It’s more ice and you can skate a lot, and usually it’s creating a lot of scoring chances. Right now, everybody just tried to keep the puck, though. Happy we got a 2-on-1, and [Marchment] made a very great play and I just could touch it into the net.”
Jake Oettinger made 24 saves in the Stars win.
“I think overtime has changed as the years have gone on,” Oettinger said. “Teams more are just focused on possession and you try to strike when you get a chance. We were patient and got our chance and finished it.”
Dallas improved to 16-7-5.
Detroit took a 1-0 lead in the first period on a marker from Dylan Larkin.
“I loved our compete,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “For the most part, good effort start to finish. Earned a point, just leaves a little bad taste in your mouth that felt like we could have taken the two points and gotten a little more out of it.”
The Red Wings dropped to 13-8-6.
“Tonight was a good response from the Florida effort (5-1 loss to the Panthers on Thursday),” Larkin said.
“I think it’s a good team over there. We’ve got to be better a little bit better there in overtime. The points are there, we haven’t really been able to capitalize on it this season. I think we’re thinking too much and we’re not just playing and playing what’s in front of us. We need to manage it and I’ve got to be the leader of that there at the end.”
Dallas tied the game, 1-1, on a goal from Denis Gurianov in the first period.
“We didn’t have any passengers tonight,” Dallas coach Peter DeBoer said. “I thought everyone showed up and played hard. It was a tough game. The first period, we mismanaged the puck too much and it was more of a track meet. I thought in the second and third, when we started to make better decisions with the puck, we kind of took the game over.”
In the middle frame, the Stars grabbed a brief 2-1 lead on a goal from Jamie Benn.
David Perron tied it in the second period, 2-2, it was his 1,000th NHL game.
“Just lucky bounce. I’m going to the net, I’m not trying to do anything, and I feel it go off my stick and in the net somehow,” Perron said. “Kind of gave me a little bit more energy after that. You kind of have to deal with a lot of the nerves. You’ve got to always kind of manage the energy, kind of calm everything down because the excitement is pretty high knowing the situation (playing in 1,000th game).”
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Ville Husso made 30 saves in the Detroit loss.
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