Duchene scores in OT, Stars rally past Coyotes

DALLAS -- Matt Duchene scored 42 seconds into overtime, and the Dallas Stars rallied for their fourth straight win, 4-3 against the Arizona Coyotes at American Airlines Center on Tuesday.

Duchene, who also had an assist, won it when he finished off a 2-on-1 pass from Tyler Seguin.

“I’m probably, minutes-wise, playing as little as I’ve played in my career (averaging 16:46 per game), because we can just roll the lines over,” Duchene said. “But your quality of the minutes is so high, it feels like you’re playing more. It’s great, and you’re fresh every shift. Over the course of 60 minutes, we just wear you down because we have so much skill and hard work, and we have chemistry on the lines too, which is great.”

Seguin had a goal and an assist, and Esa Lindell and Roope Hintz scored for Dallas (11-3-1), which fell behind with 5:34 left in the third period before Seguin tied it 2:14 later. Jake Oettinger made 23 saves.

“Those are the games that kind of tell you about your group and how they react to situations like that,” Dallas coach Peter DeBoer said. “We didn’t sag. We hopped over the boards and immediately got back on our toes and started to work for the next offensive play. I liked our response. You’re going to go through 82 games, you’re going to have situations like that where you blow leads or the other team is opportunistic. You have to handle it and find a way to get points, and we did that.”

Clayton Keller, Jason Zucker and Lawson Crouse scored for Arizona (7-6-2). Karel Vejmelka made 32 saves.

“We felt that we’d battled all game, and it’s been a theme of our group to not give up,” Crouse said. “It’s obviously disappointing that we couldn’t come away with the win, but we did our best. We fought right to the end. Proud of our group.”

Keller gave Arizona a 1-0 lead at 5:33 of the first period on a shot from the bottom of the left face-off circle.

Lindell tied it 1-1 at 17:52 on a wrist shot from the high slot.

Hintz gave Dallas a 2-1 lead at 9:32 in the second period with a power-play one-timer from the top of the right circle.

“I think we need to become comfortable in the uncomfortable,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. “The NHL’s a good league. An opponent at any moment at any game will have momentum, they will push. We do it, they will do to us, that will happen. We need to be comfortable and in control and poised in those situations.”

Zucker tied it 2-2 at 12:11 in the third period on a power-play goal from the right circle off a saucer pass by Matias Maccelli. Crouse then caught up to a loose puck and scored on a breakaway at 14:26 to give Arizona a 3-2 lead.

“We did a good pre-scout this morning, and we felt that one area that we could expose them was in the middle of the ice, and we tried to do our best on that. They did a good job on the first penalty kill they had, and we were able to get set on that last one there,” Crouse said. “I got a couple of good shots off, and that kind of dragged all their attention to the middle. Obviously [Maccelli]’s been making those plays all year, and [Zucker] has an incredible one-timer. It was a big goal for us at the moment.”

Seguin tied it 3-3 at 16:40 after he was sprung on a breakaway by Duchene.

“I’m screaming for it, so I’m hoping that he [finds me],” Seguin said of his breakaway goal. “I was actually thinking about it today. I’ve had some breakaways lately and haven’t scored on my last six or seven of them, and I’ve been shooting every one. It was in my subconscious to make a move and happy it went in.”

NOTES: Arizona forward Juuso Valimaki was injured at 3:03 of the third period after he was hit in the side of the face with a shot by Stars defenseman Jani Hakanpää. He did not return. Tourigny said that he was still being evaluated. … Dallas has collected a point in 18 consecutive home games against Arizona dating to March 20, 2012 (17-0-1), its second-longest such run against a single opponent (19 games against the Minnesota Wild). … Seguin’s goal was the 329th of his career, second-most behind Jeff Skinner (340) among players from the 2010 NHL Draft. … Duchene scored the game-winning goal for the third time in four games. Duchene has four goals in those four games.