Blackhawks Defeat Stars 5-4 In OT
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CHICAGO (AP) - Patrick Sharp scored 1:17 into overtime to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 5-4 win over Dallas on Sunday night and snap the Stars' four-game winning streak.
Sharp drove past Jason Spezza down the slot, took Duncan Keith's feed from the left point and beat Kari Lehtonen with a shot that slipped between the goalie's body and his blocker.
Chicago's Brad Richards fooled Lehtonen with an improbable sharp-angle shot with 3:57 left in the third period to tie it at 4 and set up overtime. Richards whipped the puck from the goal line at the left boards and it slipped between Lehtonen's elbow and the goalpost.
Brandon Saad, Patrick Kane and Bryan Bickell scored for the Blackhawks, who came back from four one-goal deficits to win.
Erik Cole had two goals and an assist for the Stars. Jamie Benn and his brother, Jordie, also scored for Dallas.
Lehtonen made 33 saves, while Chicago's Corey Crawford blocked 30 shots.
Blackhawks top prospect, forward Teuvo Teravainen, played his first game of the season.
The 20-year-old was recalled from Rockford of the AHL after forward Kris Versteeg suffered a left hand injury when he was hit by a shot in Thursday's Winter Classic in Washington. Versteeg is expected to be out for "about a month," according to coach Joel Quenneville.
Jamie Benn opened the scoring 3:59 in when he buried a rebound from the edge of left circle into an open net. Crawford had to react quickly to make a pad save on Tyler Seguin's initial deflected shot from 20 feet out in slot, and wasn't able to recover.
Saad muscled to the net and directed in Jonathan Toews' centering pass 1:15 later to tie it at 1. Toews collected a rebound of Brent Seabrook's shot from the point, then fed it across the crease to Saad, who fought off Stars defenseman Trevor Daley.
Defensive breakdowns lead to a scoring flurry early in the second.
Jordie Benn, a defenseman, trailed into the slot and scored his first goal of the season 2:15 into the period to complete a slick three-way passing play with Cole and Ales Hemsky to put Dallas ahead 2-1. No Blackhawks forwards backchecked on the Stars' rush.
Kane tied it at 2 at 3:58 to finish a 2-on-1 with Sharp, who created the odd-man break when he blew around Jordie Benn at the Dallas blue line.
Cole restored the Stars' lead at 3-2 just 45 seconds later when he was left wide open at the side of the net and lifted in a high shot.
Bickell's power-play tip-in with 1:55 left in the second tied it 3-all. Parked in front, he deflected Brad Richards' shot from the blue line.
Cole's second goal of the game, on a mid-air deflection of Alex Goligoski's floating feed from the left point 4:05 into the third period, put Dallas back ahead, 4-3.
Lehtonen stopped several close in shots to start overtime. Just 55 seconds into the extra frame, Crawford accidentally passed the puck from behind the net to Dallas' Cody Eakin in the slot, but dived back to make the save.
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