Three more points and a third career hat trick for Jason Robertson

It's Jason Robertson's world, and we are all living in it.
Hours after being awarded the
NHL's First Star of the Month for November
, Robertson earned another first star as he scored a hat trick and led the Stars to a 5-0 victory Thursday at the American Airlines Center over Anaheim.

"You kind of get used to it and you almost have to sit and think about it after, about how special it is what you are witnessing," Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. "It's unbelievable."

It was the third career hat trick for Robertson, who now leads the league with 22 goals and is averaging 1.625 points per game.
Robertson opened the scoring less than five minutes into the contest. After capturing the puck behind Anaheim's net, the 23-year-old star circled up the left side of the net. Robertson then pushed the puck across the crease and it deflected in off the skate of Ducks defender Urho Vaakanainen.
That finish extended his points streak to 17 games, which is the longest since the Stars moved to Dallas. That was also Robertson's 20th goal of the season. Only Hockey Hall of Famer Dino Ciccarelli reached 20 goals quicker in franchise history, doing so twice for the Minnesota North Stars in the 1980s.
"I knew that line was very good last year, and that he was a piece of that line and a very good player," DeBoer said. "You always wonder, could you do it again? Not only [is the Robertson-Hintz-Pavelski line] doing it again, they are at another level."
Robertson's second goal came on a second-period power play. Catching the puck on his forehand in the right-side slot with plenty of space, Robertson took his time and unloaded a low screamer into the far corner of the net.
Stolarz had no chance to stop it.
He scored his third in very similar fashion. Once again receiving the puck in the slot with time and space on a power play, Robertson went low and towards Stolarz's stick side, putting Dallas up 4-0 in the third period.
"I'm just getting in position to shoot the puck. I just got to get past that first guy and get it on net," Robertson said.

For DeBoer, Robertson's best moment of brilliance came about four minutes into the second period. Receiving the puck near the Stars blue line, Robertson danced it up the ice at a slow pace. He waltzed around one defender, tapped around a wayward stick, and cha-chaed another defender before crossing the puck past a third Ducks player and perfectly across the ice for Wyatt Johnston.
Stolarz made a tremendous save to keep the puck out of the net, but the fact the sequence didn't end with a goal didn't detract it in DeBoer's mind.
"That was probably his best play of the night," DeBoer said.
While Robertson stole the show, the entire Stars team put in one of the best performances of their season.
Joel Kiviranta tacked on his fourth goal of the season in the second period, knocking home a rebound off a Miro Heiskanen shot to make it 3-0. Heiskanen finished with three assists, tying his career high. Johnston later got on the scoresheet in the third period, netting his third goal in four games.
Jake Oettinger, who missed
Monday's win with an illness
, returned with his second shutout of the season. He made 31 saves, including nine on the power play.
"Our game, for whatever reason, was a little off the last week or two," Joe Pavelski said. "It was a good win the other night in St. Louis. We wanted to be able to stack that one on top. It's as simple as that."

The victory continued a trend of success against the Ducks. Dallas won all three matchups last season and both games during the 2019-2020 season. The last time Anaheim left the ice victorious over the Stars was 1,450 days ago in California on Dec. 12, 2018.
Dallas has won nine straight at home against Anaheim, which ties their active record of nine straight home wins against a singular opponent. They have also beat the Red Wings nine consecutive times in Texas. The Stars all-time home win streak versus one opponent is 16 games over the Minnesota Wild from 2003 to 2012.
Home Dallas fans haven't watched the Ducks win at the American Airlines Center since March 1, 2015 - a stretch that has now reached 2,832 days and counting.
Even on a day when the scoreboard featured a '90s scorebug and classic songs played during breaks for Reverse Retro Night, that registers as a long time ago.
Jamie Benn was only in his second season as captain. Oettinger was participating in the United States National Team Development Program. Roope Hintz, who
signed an eight-year contract extension
Tuesday with the Stars, was playing for Ilves in Finland.
And Robertson - now a favorite for league MVP - was just 15 years old, playing for the Don Mills Flyers of the Greater Toronto Hockey League.
"Sometimes you just gotta sit back and laugh at how good he is - it's special," Oettinger said of his fellow 2017 draftee. "He's going to be doing that in green and white for a long time. I'm happy that he's not doing that to me."

This story was not subject to the approval of the National Hockey League or Dallas Stars Hockey Club.