Stars tie it in final second, lose to Kraken in OT

DALLAS -- Jamie Benn scored the game-tying goal in the final second of the third period, but the Dallas Stars lost in overtime, 5-4 to the Seattle Kraken at American Airlines Center on Tuesday.

Adam Larsson won it for Seattle at 2:52 of overtime on a breakaway after a stretch pass from Jared McCann.
Dallas (38-19-14) dropped into a first-place tie with the Minnesota Wild (41-22-8) in the Central Division. Minnesota won 2-1 in overtime at the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday.
"The guys did a great job, and they deserve better," Stars goalie Jake Oettinger said. "It's huge [to get a point] but I've let in 10 goals in the last two games, so something needs to change. The guys have scored like crazy and it's on me to keep the puck out of our net, and I haven't done that."
The Stars scored twice in the last 3:26 to erase a two-goal deficit. Joe Pavelski made it 4-3 at 16:34 of the third when he deflected Evgenii Dadonov's pass at the top of the crease. Benn tied it 4-4 after a scramble in front.

Benn had a goal and two assists, Miro Heiskanen had a goal and an assist, and Oettinger made 22 saves for the Stars.
"I loved our will to fight back into the game, we've done that all year," Dallas coach Peter DeBoer said. "Obviously didn't like our start, I thought we got better as the game went on. Kind of predicted it coming back off the road like we did that we might start slow. You throw in the fact that you're playing a team you just swept in their building, a motivated group that's fighting for their playoff life, so I'm not surprised it started the way that it did. It's an important point for us, I wish we would have got two, but important point."
Brandon Tanev had two goals and an assist, and Daniel Sprong had a goal and an assist for the Kraken (39-24-7), who lost twice to the Stars in the previous 10 days (4-3 in overtime on March 11, 5-2 on March 13). Joey Daccord made 25 saves.
"It was a great team win," Larsson said. "Even till [the end] I thought we believed. We got a goal called back. There's no panic either way, and then they came back obviously scored with 0.7 seconds left or whatever it was, that's a tough break. But we still believed til the end."

Seattle moved within three points of the Edmonton Oilers for third place in the Pacific Division. The Kraken hold the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference and remained two points ahead of the Winnipeg Jets, who won 2-1 against the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday.
"We played a full 60-plus minutes," Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. "We played hard tonight, played hard all the way through the game. There's portions of the game where it was up and down, a little bit of a track meet, which isn't in our favor against that team. At the end of the day, we were able to settle things down well enough. When you give up those two at the end, it can be pretty disappointing, yet we went out and found a way to win it in overtime."
Tanev gave the Kraken a 1-0 lead at 2:32 in the first period when he crashed the net and tipped in a Sprong pass from the top of the crease.
"They have a good goaltender, and if he can't see the puck, it's harder for him to stop it," Tanev said. "That was our mindsight all night to make things difficult for him. Get in front of him, create some traffic. I think we did tonight and got some bounces."

Heiskanen tied it 1-1 on the power play at 3:52 when his point shot bounced off the glass and hit Daccord in the back and fell into the net.
Sprong gave the Kraken a 2-1 lead at 12:20 when his wrist shot beat Oettinger five-hole.
McCann extended the lead to 3-1 at 1:37 in the second period on a tap-in of a Jordan Eberle pass from the top of the crease.
"I think definitely maybe we've been a little bit looser defensively, little bit more odd-man rushes for sure," Stars defenseman Colin Miller said. "Something we've got to tighten up. They had some quick forwards, though, so just got to try to keep them in check."

Wyatt Johnston cut it to 3-2 at 3:57 in the third period, extending his goal streak to five games. He leads NHL rookies with 21 goals.
Tanev scored his second of the game at 14:03 to give the Kraken a 4-2 lead.
Dallas forward Ty Dellandrea appeared to score 42 seconds later at 14:45, but the goal was overturned after Seattle challenged for goaltender interference.
"I was kind of hoping, because when the play is happening, you don't really know exactly what happened," Daccord said. "I just saw the puck go in and I was like, 'Well, that's not great.' And then I was like, 'Wait, there's someone pushing me right now.' So then I waited for the replay. I think [Stars forward Max] Domi just kind of came into me a little bit, and then I was trying to push forward and he was in the crease so I couldn't move. I think that's why. The ref came over to me and said I didn't have any room to move, and I was like, 'Great, we'll take it.'"
NOTES: Heiskanen extended his point streak to 11 games (19 points; four goals, 15 assists), a franchise record for longest by a defenseman (Craig Hartsburg, Minnesota North Stars, Nov. 22 to Dec. 15, 1986, 18 points). Heiskanen became the third Stars defenseman to have 50 assists in a season (John Klingberg, 59, 2017-18; Sergei Zubov, 58, 2005-06). ... Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn had his 12-game point streak end (17 points; four goals, 13 assists).