Dallas broke through just 2:20 into the game when Luke Glendening was able to tip in a Heiskanen shot for his second goal of the season. Glendening was added as a free agent in the summer, and he and Michael Raffl each have been unexpected goal scorers early in the season.
Glendening and Joel Kiviranta are playing on a line with Tyler Seguin, and that line created several great scoring chances early, a sign that maybe the frustration of puck possession could be starting to turn now that the lineup is healthy.
Robertson played with Roope Hintz and Joe Pavelski and looked great in his first game. Jamie Benn centered Alexander Radulov and Denis Gurianov, and that line added a goal.
Still, they all should've had more.
Vegas defenseman Shea Theodore floated a goal through a crowd just 3:47 into the game as Stars defenseman Esa Lindell got tangled up with goalie Anton Khudobin, and the game stayed tied until Radulov made a smart tip at the 6:56 mark of the second period.
Dallas had plenty of chances before and after the Radulov goal, and the Stars finished the first 40 minutes with a 49-29 advantage in shot attempts (on goal, missed and blocked). However, the Stars fell into a bit of a shell in the third period, and while the actual shots on goal were 12-8 in favor of the Stars, the shot attempts were 28-15 in favor of the Golden Knights.
That proved to be way too much time in their own end of the ice.
Vegas pulled goalie Laurent Brossoit to get the extra skater, and Jonathan Marchessault connected on a one-timer with 1:02 left in the third period.
The Stars hurried up ice and almost cashed in on a game-winner. After the contest went to overtime, Dallas almost won again when a Robertson shot clanged off the crossbar before Vegas' Evgenii Dadonov ended it for good. It was eerily reminiscent to last season when Dallas squandered far too many scoring chances and lost far too many games in overtime.
"They came on hard in the third, we battled back, Robo hit the crossbar in overtime, but it was one of those nights where the puck just wouldn't go in," Bowness said. "At least we put a lot more shots on the net and we had a lot more scoring opportunities, so that's the good news. It's disappointing to lose that point, but we certainly did a lot of good things."