By: Aanya
- Dallas: Playing the final game of a six-city road trip, the Stars fought back to pull within a goal late but couldn’t match Columbus’ energy and execution
- Columbus: The Blue Jackets started strong, weathered rallies from a tough Dallas team and killed off a critical four-minute penalty to secure two much-needed points
Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Dallas Stars 6-4 on Tuesday night for their second straight win to keep them in the hunt for an Eastern Conference wild-card spot thanks hugely to Kirill Marchenko scoring twice. Marchenko opened the scoring just 30 seconds into the game and later extended Columbus’ lead to 3-1 at 1:11 of the second period. The goals were his first since returning from a three-game absence due to a broken jaw.
Highlights:
For Coulumbus - Mathieu Olivier and James van Riemsdyk also scored for Columbus. Earlier, Ivan Provorov added a goal and an assist. Adam Fantilli added an empty-netter with 32 seconds remaining and Elvis Merzlikins made 19 saves.
For Dallas - which had won three in a row, saw Jason Robertson add a goal and an assist. Jamie Benn, Roope Hintz and Mavrik Bourque; each of them scored. Mikael Granlund had two assists. Jake Oettinger stopped 23 shots.