Jake Oettinger of the Dallas Stars secured a 5-0 victory over the San Jose Sharks with his 17th career shutout on Monday, stopping 14 shots in the process. The Sharks played without their captain, Macklin Celebrini, who missed the game due to a lower-body injury. Meanwhile, in Tampa Bay, Andrei Vasilevskiy tied for 20th place on the NHL career wins list with his 372nd victory as the Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1.
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On Monday, the Dallas Stars defeated the San Jose Sharks with a score of 5-0 in their NHL game, thanks to Jake Oettinger's 17th career shutout where he stopped 14 shots. The Sharks played without star center Macklin Celebrini, who was scratched due to a lower-body injury and left warmups early. Miro Heiskanen scored the winning goal on a backhand shot with 1:09 left in the first period. Yaroslav Askarov had 21 saves for San Jose. Ty Dellandrea made his season debut for San Jose, filling in for Celebrini, who is the face of the franchise at age 20 and had recently assisted on a goal that secured San Jose's 2-0 record before this game.
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DALLAS (AP) — Jake Oettinger stopped 14 shots and earned his 17th career shutout as the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 5-0 on Monday for their first victory of the NHL season.
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Stars → stop → season
The Sharks were without star centre Macklin Celebrini, who was scratched a few minutes before the start of the game due to a lower-body injury.
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who → scratch → injury
Jamie Benn had a goal and an assist, and Miro Heiskanen, Joel Kiviranta, Jason Robertson and Mikko Rantanen also scored for Dallas.
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Heiskanen’s goal on a backhand shot with 1:09 left in the first period proved to be the winner.
Yaroslav Askarov had 21 saves for the Sharks.
Celebrini, who was recently named San Jose’s captain, took part in warm-ups but left the ice earlier than usual.
Former Stars forward Ty Dellandrea made his season debut in place of Celebrini, the 20-year-old face of the franchise who assisted on Igor Chernyshov’s overtime goal Saturday that made San Jose 2-0.
Elsewhere in the NHL on Monday:
LIGHTNING 4 FLYERS 1
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Pontus Holmberg and Ilya Mikheyev each had a goal and assist, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 13 shots to move into a tie for 20th place on the NHL career wins list, and Tampa Bay beat Philadelphia 4-1.
Vasilevskiy’s 372nd victory moved him into a tie with Andy Moog.
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Vasilevskiy needs two more wins to tie John Vanbiesbrouck for 19th place.
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Brayden Point and Brandon Hagel also scored for the Lightning, who have won two games since an opening-night loss to the New York Rangers.
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Tyson Foerster scored for Philadelphia and Dan Vladar finished with 32 saves.
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The Flyers are winless (0-2-2) through four games to start the season for the first time since 2013-14.
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Philadelphia has been held to two or fewer goals in all four games.
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Point scored his first goal of the season with a deflection off a wrist shot from John Carlson at 16:05 of the first period.
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Holmberg scored 17 seconds into the second period off the rush for a 2-0 lead.
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Foerster wheeled a shot from the top of the left circle that hit Tampa Bay defenceman Charle-Edouard D’Astous in front of the net to bring Philadelphia with one at 7:22.
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Mikheyev made it 3-1 with a wraparound with three minutes to play.
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Hagel added an empty-netter.
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Nikita Kucherov picked up two assists and now has 1,128 career points to move past Mike Bossy and Joe Nieuwendyk for 67th place.
SENATORS 4 BRUINS 1
BOSTON (AP) — Tim Stutzle had two goals and an assist and goalies Linus Ullmark and Samuel Ersson combined to stop 18 of 19 shots as Ottawa defeated Boston 4-1.
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Stutzle’s multi-point game moved him into sole possession of sixth place for most points in Ottawa history with 413.
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Ullmark started in goal for Ottawa, but wasn’t on the ice at the start of the third period.
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The one-time Bruins netminder, who stopped all 10 shots he faced in the first two periods, was on the bench five minutes into the final period.
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Ersson made eight saves in the final period for the Senators.
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Ottawa’s Michael Amadio had a goal and assist, and Drake Batherson also scored.
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Boston rookie James Hagens spoiled Ottawa’s shutout bid with a goal in the third period.
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Hagens → spoil → period
Jeremy Swayman made 20 saves for the Bruins, who have lost two straight after opening the season with two wins.
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Boston was outshot 24-19 and failed to score on four power plays.
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Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist, Clay Stevenson made 30 saves, and Winnipeg beat Pittsburgh 3-2.
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Pittsburgh’s Declan Carlile scored 8:53 into the third period to tie the game at 2-2, but Cole Perfetti scored the winner on a wrist shot just nine seconds later, assisted by Josh Morrissey.
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Perfetti → score → Morrissey
Adam Lowry also scored for the Jets, who have won two in a row after losing their season opener in overtime.
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Benjamin Kindel also scored for the Penguins and Carlile added an assist.
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Carlile → score → assist
Sergei Murashov made 30 saves for the Penguins.
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The Jets outhit the Penguins 23 to 11.
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