Corey Crawford made 32 saves for his first shutout of the season as the Chicago Blackhawks defeated visiting Dallas 3-0 Tuesday night, preventing the Stars from breaking two franchise records.
Brandon Saad, Patrick Kane and Connor Murphy scored as Chicago snapped Dallas’ franchise record-tying seven-game winning streak and 12-game point streak (11-0-1).
The shutout was the 26th of Crawford’s 13-year career with the Blackhawks. His season career high is seven, set in 2015-16.
Saad scored at 11:20 of the first period following a faceoff win by Alex Nylander in the Dallas end of the rink. The puck went back to Erik Gustafsson at the right point. The defenseman skated toward the top of the faceoff circle and faked a shot, drawing two Stars forwards out of position, before chipping a pass to Saad, who had skated into the top of the slot. Saad’s one-timer skipped under the pad of Dallas goaltender Anton Khudobin and just inside the right post.
Kane made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 10:42 of the third on a snapshot from the right faceoff circle, assisted by Alex DeBrincat and Andrew Shaw. The Stars had killed 15 consecutive penalties over a four-game stretch before Kane’s tally.
Kane extended his point streak to 13 games, during which he’s had 22 points (nine goals, 13 assists), and helped the Blackhawks snap a three-game winless streak (0-2-1).
Murphy scored an empty-net goal at 17:20.
Khudobin, who made a season-high 38 saves Saturday as the Stars defeated the visiting Blackhawks 2-1 in a shootout, stopped 35 of 37 shots in Tuesday’s rematch.
While it was a home-and-home series for the Blackhawks, the Stars were playing the second half of a back-to-back. Dallas defeated visiting Las Vegas 4-2 Monday to tie the two franchise records. The loss was the Stars’ first in regulation since a 3-0 setback to Pittsburgh on October 26.


Pastrnak’s hat-trick sparks 
Bruins to rout of Habs
David Pastrnak scored three times, Brad Marchand and Charlie Coyle each added a goal and two assists, and the Boston Bruins crushed the host Montreal Canadiens 8-1 Tuesday night. Jake DeBrusk, Anders Bjork and Danton Heinen also scored, and Sean Kuraly had three assists as the Bruins won for the fifth time in their past six games (5-0-1). Jaroslav Halak stopped 36 shots.
Shea Weber scored for the Canadiens, who have lost five straight (0-3-2). Carey Price allowed the first five goals on 11 shots before he was pulled 1:10 into the second period.
Pastrnak completed his second hat trick of the season against Price’s replacement, Keith Kinkaid, on a redirect at 9:06 of the second period to give the Bruins a 6-1 lead. It was the first hat trick by a Bruins player in Montreal since Steve Kasper had one on Nov. 30, 1987.
Pastrnak extended his league-leading goal total to 23 on a night when his usual centre, Patrice Bergeron, was sidelined due to a lower-body injury. The absence didn’t slow Boston, which scored three times in the first period. DeBrusk got things going on the power play at 8:03, but the Canadiens tied the score at 1 when Weber put home a rebound of a Brendan Gallagher shot off Halak’s pad at 12:41. Pastrnak restored the Bruins’ lead, 2-1, with a one-timer on the power play at 14:24 of the first, and Marchand completed the scoring in the period at 19:23 for his 600th career NHL point.
It took eight seconds for Boston to strike in the second, Pastrnak with a snipe on the stick side past Price after an opening faceoff win. Canadiens defenseman Jeff Petry failed to clear a puck to lead to Bjork’s goal at 1:10 of the period, and Price was pulled during a timeout. Price allowed at least five goals for the third time in his last four starts. Kinkaid stopped 10 of the 13 shots he faced. He gave up third-period goals to Coyle and Heinen at 8:26 and 17:58, respectively.


RESULTS
Blackhawks 3-0 Dallas
Bruins 8-1 Canadiens
Wild 3-2 Devils