Heiskanen, Ritchie score 1:48 apart in third, Stars top Sharks

DALLAS -- Miro Heiskanen and Brett Ritchie scored 1:48 apart in the third period for the Dallas Stars in a 3-2 win against the San Jose Sharks at American Airlines Center on Friday.

Heiskanen gave the Stars a 2-1 lead at 4:38, taking a pass from Tyler Pitlick and beating Sharks goalie Martin Jones to the short wide with a wrist shot from the right circle. Ritchie extended the lead to 3-1 on a 2-on-1 at 6:26.
"Pitlick dropped it to me," Heiskanen said. "I yelled there, I just threw it at the net, and that's it.
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"The last period was good for us, and it was a fun way to win this game."

Mattias Janmark also scored, and Ben Bishop made a season-high 41 saves for Dallas (16-10-3), which has won four straight and is 10-3-1 at home.
"We were bad in the first, and thank God Ben Bishop was not," Stars coach Jim Montgomery said.
Evander Kane and Logan Couture scored, Erik Karlsson had two assists and Jones made 27 saves for San Jose (14-11-5), which is 2-4-1 in its past seven games.

"I think we're a little too relaxed," Kane said. "We need to ramp up the intensity. Teams are coming back on us because we're not finishing."
Kane gave the Sharks a 1-0 lead at 9:22 of the first period with a one-timer off the post on a 4-on-2.
Timo Meier appeared to make it 2-0 at 3:05 of the second period. The Situation Room initiated a video review because the puck crossed the goal line, but the referee said he blew his whistle to stop play before the puck crossed the line.
Janmark tied it 1-1 at 14:05 of the second period. Roman Polak collected a loose puck in the Stars zone and sent a backhand stretch pass to Janmark, who had skated in on a line change and scored blocker side on a breakaway.

"We have a 2-on-0 and the disallowed goal at one end, and they get a breakaway at the other end and we leave the period 1-1 instead of going up 2-0," Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. "It's that simple. It's a small margin right now."
Couture cut it to 3-2 at 6:59 of the third period on a redirection of a point shot from Karlsson.
"We battled back," Sharks captain Joe Pavelski said. "We didn't have long stretches where we didn't have our game. It was a competitive game. We had chances throughout the night. We had opportunities to tie it up there at the end and didn't get it."
Stars forward Martin Hanzal went 7-for-8 on face-offs and had one shot in 12:22 of ice time in his season debut. He hadn't played since Feb. 21 because of a back injury.

"It was probably the hardest game of my life," Hanzal said. "I felt like the first period I was a little bit nervous. I thought I got better in the second, and the third I was out of gas. So I can do better."
Said Montgomery, "I thought his first couple of shifts he was watching and it looked like the game was fast for him, which you would expect."

They said it

"I thought we played a pretty good road game. We're just finding the wrong side of the line right now and we've got to get on the right side of it. … If we play like we did tonight and keep building on that game, I think we'll be fine. It's just sticking with it." -- Sharks coach Peter DeBoer
"It's good going into the [four-game road trip], finding different ways to win and getting contributions from different guys." -- Stars forward Devin Shore
"We want him to keep playing hard and play through mistakes. It's OK. Everybody makes mistakes. Just play through them and make sure you are not making the same mistake twice." -- Stars coach Jim Montgomery on forward Brett Ritchie

Need to know

Sharks forward Joe Thornton played in his 1,514th NHL game, tying Steve Yzerman for 18th in NHL history. … Polak's assist on Janmark's goal was his first this season. Janmark's goal was his first since Oct. 25 (20 games). … Jones is 2-7-0 in his career against the Stars. … San Jose went 2-for-2 on the penalty kill and is third in NHL at 85.2 percent. ... Ritchie has scored in consecutive games after being a healthy scratch the previous five.

What's next

Sharks:At the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; FS-A, NBCSCA, NHL.TV)
Stars:At the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday (9 p.m. ET; ATTSN-RM, FS-SW, NHL.TV)