{"id":679846,"date":"2026-03-25T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679846\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:50:13","slug":"jack-hughes-scores-twice-as-devils-beat-stars-6-4-end-dallas-streak-with-four-goal-first-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679846\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes scores twice as Devils beat Stars 6-4, end Dallas streak with four-goal first period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Hughes scored twice in New Jersey&#8217;s four-goal first period, and the Devils handed Dallas consecutive losses in regulation for the first time in two months, beating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the Stars<\/a> 6-4 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jesper Bratt and Connor Brown also had goals as the Devils put four of their first five shots past Jake Oettinger to end the Dallas goalie&#8217;s career-best point streak at 14 games. Oettinger was pulled after the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Johnston had two goals to reach 40 for the first time in his career, and Jason Robertson scored his 39th for Dallas, which hadn&#8217;t lost two in a row in regulation since dropping three straight from Jan. 13-18.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston&#8217;s second goal was his NHL-leading 24th on the power play, extending his franchise record set two nights earlier in a 3-2 loss to Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Playing for the first time since clinching a Western Conference playoff spot, the Stars lost to an East also-ran and fell seven points behind NHL-leading Colorado, their Central Division rival.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes beat Oettinger one-on-one for both his goals, the latter when Luke Hughes connected with him on a two-line pass for a breakaway and a 4-1 lead 17:19 into the first. <\/p>\n<p>Hughes has eight goals in eight games after going without one in his first five games following the gold medal-winning goal for Team USA against Canada in the Milan Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston tied his career high with his 38th assist when Robertson got Dallas within a goal midway through the second period.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey&#8217;s Timo Meier and Mavrik Bourque of Dallas traded third-period goals before an empty-netter from Dougie Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Casey DeSmith replaced Oettinger and gave the Stars a chance late by stopping the first 12 shots he faced. Jake Allen had 23 saves for the Devils.<\/p>\n<p>Devils: At Nashville on Thursday on the fourth game of a five-game trip.<\/p>\n<p>Stars: At the Islanders on Thursday to start a four-game trip.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes scored twice in New Jersey&#8217;s four-goal first period, and the Devils handed Dallas consecutive losses in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":679847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,15743,293,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-679846","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-devils","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116287781228249174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679846","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=679846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}