{"id":533940,"date":"2026-04-01T02:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:49:16","slug":"stars-work-ethic-lacking-in-loss-to-boston-dallas-loses-seventh-game-in-its-last-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533940\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars’ ‘work ethic’ lacking in loss to Boston, Dallas loses seventh game in its last nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2014\u00a0Viktor Arvidsson had three goals, including two empty-netters, Elias Lindholm scored a tiebreaking\u00a0power-play goal 13 seconds into the third period and the Boston Bruins helped their playoff push with a 6-3 win over the Dallas Stars<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Marat Khusnutdinov and Henri Jokiharju also scored for the Bruins, who won their fourth straight game and hold the Eastern Conference\u2019s top wild-card spot. David Pastrnak collected three assists, and Joonas Korpisalo made 13 saves.<\/p>\n

Jamie Benn, Matt Duchene and Wyatt Johnston each had a goal for Dallas, and Jake Oettinger stopped 17 shots. Johnston\u2019s was his 41st.<\/p>\n

Heading to the playoffs for the fifth straight year<\/a> after clinching a little over a week ago, the Stars have lost seven of nine as they attempt to get straightened out before pursuing their fourth consecutive trip to the Western Conference final.<\/p>\n

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“It wasn’t one of our better games,” head coach Glen Gulutzan said. “We haven’t matched the work ethic of the teams that are trying\u00a0to get [into the playoffs]. They’re up half a degree and we’re down half a degree, and that’s a degree of separation that causes losses.”<\/p>\n

At the very end of a power play, Lindholm fired a wrister from the right circle that beat Oettinger inside the far post, making it 3-2.<\/p>\n

Jokiharju then scored his first goal as a Bruin, firing a wrister in from the slot at 5:51 to give Boston a two-goal edge.<\/p>\n

Arvidsson sealed it with his first empty-netter, sending Boston to its 28th home win this season.<\/p>\n

Coming off a three-goal, third-period comeback in Columbus on Sunday that capped a solid weekend, the Bruins jumped ahead when Khusnutdinov scored off a rebound midway into the opening period.<\/p>\n

Arvidsson knocked in Pastrnak\u2019s pass from the crease, making it 2-0 with 1:09 left in the first, before Benn\u2019s score sliced it to 2-1 4:49 into the second.<\/p>\n

Duchene stole the puck at the side of the net and shoveled it from the edge of the crease, tying it at 16:53 of the second.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

The Stars host Winnipeg on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014\u00a0Viktor Arvidsson had three goals, including two empty-netters, Elias Lindholm scored a tiebreaking\u00a0power-play goal 13 seconds into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,4,197,61173],"class_list":{"0":"post-533940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-stars","15":"tag-tp-dallas-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116327177467257173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}