Raty also had an assist, Jake DeBrusk scored, and Conor Garland had three assists for the Canucks (36-29-13), who pulled to within six points of the Minnesota Wild for the second wild card into the playoffs from the Western Conference with four games remaining for each team. Filip Hronek and Quinn Hughes each had two assists, and Demko made 23 saves.
“It was a good win,” Hughes said. “No quit, it’s been like that all year. I was happy we could find a way to win that.”
Mikael Granlund had a goal and two assists, and Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist for the Stars (50-22-6), who are four points behind the Winnipeg Jets for first place in the Central Division with four games remaining for each team. Jamie Benn had two assists, and Casey DeSmith made 26 saves.
“I’ve won and lost a lot of games in this league, and I don’t think I’ve ever lost one in that fashion before,” Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said. “Thankfully it’s not a playoff game. Hopefully we learn from it. It’s unfortunate because it’s going to cloud some of the really good things we did tonight for big portions of that game.
“But you’ve got to play for 60 minutes, and we didn’t. For whatever reason, we didn’t execute down the stretch. It’s disappointing because we did put in some work tonight in a positive direction I thought.”
Mikko Rantanen gave the Stars a 1-0 lead on the power play at 13:48 of the first period when he one-timed the puck from the bottom of the left circle.
Mason Marchment’s power-play goal made it 2-0 at 18:01 on a one-timer from the bottom of the left circle when Benn spotted him from behind the net.
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