Benn lifts Stars past Rangers in OT for 5th straight win 

NEW YORK -- Jamie Benn scored on a power play 2:17 into overtime and the Dallas Stars came back twice, including from down three goals, to defeat the New York Rangers 5-4 at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.

Benn scored from the front of the net off a pass from Jason Robertson.

Matt Duchene, Evgenii Dadonov and Robertson scored to rally the Stars after they fell behind 3-0 in the first period, and Thomas Harley scored a tying goal late in the third period. Harley also had an assist on Benn’s goal, his second of the game. Jake Oettinger made 22 saves.

The Stars (25-13-1) extended their winning streak to five games and their point streak to seven. It was the first game on a five-game road trip that continues Thursday in Philadelphia.

"Any time in this league you're down 3-0 in a game and come back and win, especially on the road, it's an identity, character, gut-check kind of win," Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said. "We've kind of climbed back in the standings here with a real good homestand the last two weeks so we wanted to start this road trip off right. To be in that hole and find a way to get out of it early in this trip was really important for our group."

Vincent Trocheck had two goals and an assist, Artemi Panarin had three assists and Alexis Lafreniere had two goals for the Rangers (18-20-2). Jonathan Quick made 34 saves but lost in his second attempt to become the first United States-born goalie to reach 400 wins.

"You get that 3-0 lead you want to play a little better, but also that 4-3 lead late you want to be able to hang onto that," New York defenseman Adam Fox said. "It's frustrating. I think we have been playing a lot better hockey, but you have to get two points out of it. One is better than zero, but it definitely should have been two points tonight."

Lafreniere gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead with his first goal in 14 games and second in 22 at 6:56 of the first. He took a drop pass from Panarin in the left circle and scored high on Oettinger's blocker side.

Trocheck deflected Will Borgen's shot past Oettinger at 9:55 to give New York a 2-0 lead.

Lafreniere scored on a breakaway set up by Trocheck and Panarin, getting a backhanded shot through Oettinger's five-hole at 11:24 to make it 3-0.

"They were dialed into the game," Rangers coach Peter Laviolette said of the line of Trocheck, Panarin and Lafreniere. "They created a lot of chances. They were on point."

Duchene started Dallas' comeback by cutting New York's lead to 3-1 at 12:57. He stayed onside at the left point and his pass attempt to Benn from the left circle went into the net off Urho Vaakanainen's stick.

Dadonov's power-play goal off a far post rebound of Mavrik Bourque's shot from the right circle made it 3-2 at 15:56.

The Stars outshot the Rangers 19-8 in the first.

"Not the start I dreamt about last night, but I just felt like once they got that third one, I felt like we were getting a lot of chances and if I could keep it there then we would be able to tie it up," Oettinger said. "We had a lot of chances early on. 'Quickie' made some good saves and we hit a couple posts. They were bearing down on all their chances. We felt like if we just kept playing that way we were going to get more and more chances. We had to step up and we did."

Robertson tied it 3-3 at 13:14 of the second period. He came from behind the net, around the left post and lifted a backhanded shot past Quick.

Trocheck gave New York the 4-3 lead at 12:56 of the third period with a power-play goal on a netfront deflection of Mika Zibanejad's shot from high between the circles.

Harley was in the penalty box at the time for a delay of game, puck over the glass penalty.

"It's not a good feeling," Harley said.

But a defensive zone turnover by K'Andre Miller, forced by Sam Steel's aggressive forecheck, led to Harley making it 4-4 with a shot from the right circle at 17:21.

"A lot better," Harley said. "Glad to see it went in. (Heck) of a job by Steel on the forecheck there and under the bar. All worked out."

Panarin was called for hooking Wyatt Johnston 25 seconds into overtime. The Rangers were nine seconds away from killing the penalty when Robertson found Benn in front for the redirection.

"Showed a lot of character and guts down 3-0 on the road," DeBoer said. "I thought we didn't panic. We stuck with it. I don't think it was a 3-0 deserved deficit but that was the hole we were in. We just kept battling, kept chipping away. When they scored the fourth it would have been easy to go, 'It's just not our night,' but we kept coming again. Important two points."

Notes: Both Stars defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin and Rangers forward Filip Chytil didn't play after the second period because of upper-body injuries. There was no further updated provided on either player. … Oettinger got his 20th win in his 30th game this season, the quickest a Stars goalie has reached the 20-win mark, topping Ed Belfour, who did it in 31 games in 1997-98. … Panarin's three assists all came in the first period. It's the 19th time in his career and 13th as a Ranger that he's had three points in a single period. He is tied with Rod Gilbert for the most three-point periods in franchise history.