{"id":691898,"date":"2026-10-21T03:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/691898\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:33:19","slug":"mikko-rantanens-overtime-hat-trick-gives-the-stars-a-3-2-win-over-the-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/691898\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikko Rantanen’s overtime hat trick gives the Stars a 3-2 win over the Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Mikko Rantanen scored in overtime to complete a hat trick, and the Dallas Stars beat Boston 3-2 on Tuesday night to snap the Bruins’ five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

It was the 11th career three-goal game for Rantanen and his first in the regular season since joining the Stars in a trade during the 2024-25 season. He became the fourth Stars player with an overtime hat trick since the team moved to Dallas for the 1993-94 season.<\/p>\n

Rantanen got his first goal early in the second period to tie the game at 1-all, and he tied it again in the third. His winner came on the power play at 3:52 of overtime<\/a> when he did some nifty stick work in close and fired a shot past the left shoulder of Jeremy Swayman, who earlier in the extra period stopped Wyatt Johnston on two breakaway attempts 10 seconds apart and finished with 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Jake Oettinger stopped 18 shots for Dallas (5-3-1) in its third straight win.<\/p>\n

Matthew Poitras and James Hagens scored for the Bruins (7-2-1), who concluded their Western Conference trip at 3-0-1. Boston went 0 for 4 on the power play against Dallas, which came in allowing an NHL-best 1.5 goals per game and had the fourth-best penalty kill in the league. The Stars have allowed one power-play goal on opponents’ last 25 chances.<\/p>\n

Roope Hintz had a shot from in close deflect off the leg of Boston\u2019s Charlie McAvoy, and the loose puck ricocheted directly to Rantanen, who poked it past Swayman<\/a> with 6:22 left in regulation to tie it at 2-all.<\/p>\n

Bruins: Host Nashville on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Stars: Host Winnipeg on Thursday.<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full NHL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Mikko Rantanen scored in overtime to complete a hat trick, and the Dallas Stars beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[73791,23882,196,147,5278,5,424,373,156,13113,270,4,10617,3494,3492,47087,10616,60586,10868,1716,197,1531],"class_list":["post-691898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-bruins-stars-score","tag-charles-mcavoy","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-hockey","tag-jake-oettinger","tag-james-hagens","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-matthew-poitras","tag-mikko-rantanen","tag-nhl","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-roope-hintz","tag-stars","tag-wyatt-johnston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691898","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=691898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}