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Dallas Stars overtime woes continue in loss to Montreal Canadiens

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DALLAS — The Dallas Stars overtime woes continued in a 4-3 loss to the Montreal Canadiens.

The Stars had a golden opportunity after the Canadiens iced the puck off the opening face-off and put John Klingberg, Tyler Seguin, and Radek Faksa out for an offensive draw. Dallas lost the draw and blown coverage by Seguin allowed Max Pacioretty to escape for a game-winning breakaway just 19 seconds into overtime.

“Overtime, we tried to score. Our high guy’s in perfect shape. Our high guy just lets — there’s nothing I can address in video,” Stars coach Lindy Ruff said. “That’s just attention. That’s one of your veteran best players let their guy go. He’s not going to want to see that on video. I don’t want to see it again.”

The Stars are now 2-8 in overtime.

“I thought we beat ourselves,” Ruff said. “Then were in perfect position in overtime, and just let the high guy go, which is totally unacceptable. Our high guy let him go, and it’s another point we gave away. They didn’t earn it. We gave the game away.”

Postgame video

The goals

First period

10:38 Montreal opened the scoring on a wrist shot by Nathan Beaulieu that beat Kari Lehtonen through a screen. Philip Danault had the assist after he stripped the puck from Curtis McKenzie. Canadiens 1, Stars 0

14:44 Tyler Seguin scored his 14th goal of the season on a deflection after Stephen Johns took the initial shot. Patrick Sharp had the secondary assist, his second of the season. Canadiens 1, Stars 1

Second period

12:29 John Klingberg scored his fourth goal of the season on a power play. Firing a wrist shot past Al Montoya on the stick side. Stars 2, Canadiens 1

Third period

2:58 Alexander Radulov scored on the power play to tie the game on a nifty forehand-to-backhand move. Stars 2, Canadiens 2

4:13 Max Pacioretty scored 75 seconds later on a snipe. The goal came with Stephen Johns in the box for for delay of game. Canadiens 3, Stars 2

17:13 Esa Lindell scored his fourth goal of the season on a point shot to tie the game and force overtime. Canadiens 3, Stars 3

Overtime

0:19 Max Pacioretty escaped on a breakaway and beat Kari Lehtonen five-hole. Canadiens 4, Stars 3

Roussel returns, Benn to IR

Antoine Roussel returned to the lineup on Wednesday after missing four games with an upper-body injury sustained in practice.

Roussel was a game-time decision and the Stars didn’t officially clear him until after the pregame warmups.

“Pretty good, actually. I was cautious at the start, but I played with good players, (Patrick Sharp) and Cody (Eakin),” Roussel said. “I just think we had a couple great chances, and just weren’t lucky enough to get one. I asked for Christmas, but I didn’t get that.”

Roussel skated 29 shifts and had a pair of shots. He was an antagonist and didn’t look like he missed a beat.

“Thought he played very well,” Ruff said. “I thought he was one of our better players out there. I thought his hustle, his work ethic was fabulous.”

To make room on the roster the Stars put captain Jamie Benn on injured reserve with a foot injury.

Benn will be eligible to come off injured reserve on Sunday and will miss Saturday’s game against the St. Louis Blues.

Stars lineup

Patrick Sharp — Jason Spezza — Tyler Seguin
Curtis McKenzie — Radek Faksa — Brett Ritchie
Lauri Korpikoski — Devin Shore — Jiri Hudler
Antoine Roussel — Cody Eakin — Patrick Eaves

Esa Lindell — John Klingberg
Johnny Oduya — Jordie Benn
Dan Hamhuis — Stephen Johns

Kari Lehtonen
Antti Niemi

Scratched: Patrik Nemeth, Adam Cracknell, Jamie Oleksiak

Injured: Mattias Janmark (knee), Ales Hemsky (hip), Jamie Benn (foot)

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