Stuart Skinner spent most of Thursday night keeping the Dallas Stars at arm's length. Then Roope Hintz got two clean looks at him less than six minutes of playing time apart, and the Stars walked out of American Airlines Center with a 3-2 overtime win over the Winnipeg Jets.
Hintz scored the tying goal with 2:00 left in regulation, with Jake Oettinger on the bench for an extra skater, and finished it 3:47 into overtime on a breakaway. The two goals were his fourth and fifth of the season and pushed Dallas to 6-3-1 with a fourth consecutive victory.
The winner started at the other end
The overtime goal began with Winnipeg on the attack. The Jets broke out on a 3-on-2, and Jason Robertson went down to block a shot in the Dallas zone. Hintz, too late to get back into the play, stayed high. Miro Heiskanen collected the loose puck and hit him in stride, and Hintz slid a snap shot through Skinner's pads.
"I was so late, I couldn't get there," Hintz told NHL.com. "I was trying to stay back because I saw (Robertson) had a huge block there. Then Miro made a great play to me, and I got a breakaway."
The equalizer was simpler. Mikko Rantanen, two nights removed from scoring all three goals in an overtime win over Boston, carried the puck behind the Winnipeg net and found Hintz alone in the low slot. Hintz beat Skinner on the blocker side.
"He delivered right to my wheelhouse," Hintz said of Rantanen, per NHL.com. "It was pretty easy to put it in."
It nearly came sooner. Late in the second period, Hintz poked at a loose puck beside the post, and Skinner reached behind himself and trapped it under his glove short of the line, according to The Associated Press.
Skinner kept Winnipeg in it
Dallas outshot the Jets 38-19, and Skinner stopped 35 of them. Wyatt Johnston had opened the scoring 1:17 into the second period, his first goal of the season, before Winnipeg answered through Gabriel Vilardi and Kyle Connor, less than two minutes apart, for a 2-1 Jets lead.
