{"id":486302,"date":"2026-01-02T04:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486302\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:37:20","slug":"stars-last-ditch-comeback-vs-blackhawks-falls-short-as-dallas-suffers-4th-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486302\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars\u2019 last-ditch comeback vs. Blackhawks falls short as Dallas suffers 4th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Ilya Mikheyev had two goals and the Chicago Blackhawks handed the Dallas Stars<\/a> their fourth consecutive loss with a 4-3 victory Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Teuvo Teravainen and Artyom Levshunov also scored as Chicago improved to 5-13-3 in its last 21 games. Spencer Knight made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

The Blackhawks also beat the Stars\u00a04-3\u00a0in a shootout<\/a> at Dallas on Saturday night. The Stars had won seven of their last nine games at the United Center.<\/p>\n

Mikko Rantanen, Jason Robertson and Matt Duchene scored for Dallas, which was coming off\u00a0a 4-1 loss\u00a0at Buffalo<\/a> on Wednesday night. Jake Oettinger stopped 17 shots.<\/p>\n

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Teravainen\u2019s power-play goal gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead just 13 seconds into the second period. Andre Burakovsky set up Teravainen\u2019s eighth of the season with a nice pass in front.<\/p>\n

Mikheyev made it 3-1 when he drove to the net and beat Oettinger at 9:14. He scored again 3:58 into the third, squeezing in a shot from a tough angle.<\/p>\n

Mikheyev has four goals in his last four games and eight on the season. He missed two games last weekend for the birth of his child.<\/p>\n

Dallas pulled within one on late goals by Robertson and Duchene. Duchene has 23 goals and 30 assists in 61 career games against the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n

Chicago jumped in front on Levshunov\u2019s second career goal. Following a scramble in front of the net, the 20-year-old defenseman converted a power-play wrist shot from the slot 11:48 into the first period.<\/p>\n

Dallas responded with Rantanen\u2019s 16th goal on a nifty backhand with 5:18 left. Rantanen has three goals and 11 assists in his last eight games.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Stars host the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday. The Blackhawks visit the Washington Capitals on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\"Chicago<\/a>Stars-Blackhawks preview: Dallas looks to atone for last week\u2019s loss to lowly Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n

The Stars square off against the Blackhawks on the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>Dallas Stars\u2019 six-game point streak runs into buzzsaw vs. Buffalo Sabres<\/a><\/p>\n

The Stars\u2019 streak was no match for the sizzling Sabres\u2019, who tied a franchise record with their 10th straight win.<\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from <\/b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Ilya Mikheyev had two goals and the Chicago Blackhawks handed the Dallas Stars their fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,123519,62296,2077,71991,293,62,4810,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-486302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-jake-oettinger","12":"tag-jason-robertson","13":"tag-matt-duchene","14":"tag-mikko-rantanen","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-stars","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115823656636377124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}