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DALLAS (AP) — Miro Heiskanen and the Dallas Stars‘ new defense stepped up — on offense — Friday night.Heiskanen Anaheim Ducks Hats Womens , a rookie, had his first two-goal game, and the Stars, behind four goals from defensemen, rallied to beat the Ottawa Senators 6-4.“I think it was the most shots that got through from our defense all season,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. “The four goals were important.”With four defensemen injured, the 19-year-old Heiskanen has become one of the more experienced Dallas blueliners. He scored from above the left faceoff circle in the second period and from the right point in the third.Montgomery was most impressed by Heiskanen’s first goal.“What a great release! To get a shot on a knuckle puck without settling it. It’s on his stick and it’s off his stick. The goalie doesn’t have time to move,” he said.Ottawa goalie Craig Anderson had to do plenty of moving. The Stars had 54 shots on goal, one off the record for their 24 seasons in Dallas. Anderson finished with 48 saves Custom Anaheim Ducks Jerseys , one away from his season high.“It was pretty fun,” Anderson said. “A lot of action. Got to play the puck a lot. They’re the kind of team to throw everything at the net.”Taylor Fedun, in his first game for the Stars, scored the goal that put them ahead to stay 3-2. Gavin Bayreuther scored his first goal in his fifth NHL game into an empty net after Ottawa came back from three goals down to trail just 5-4.Heiskanen just missed a shot for an empty-net goal and a hat trick.“It was amazing to witness how everybody on the bench was pulling for him to get the hat trick,” Montgomery said.Forwards Jamie Benn and Blake Comeau also scored for Dallas.Ryan Dzingel, Brady Tkachuk, Maxime Lajoie and Zach Smith scored for the Senators.Ottawa’s losing streak grew to a season-high three games. The Senators are 2-7-1 on the road.“We can score goals,” coach Guy Boucher said, “but we can’t prevent them from scoring against us. On the road it’s a lot tougher www.coyotesproshop.com , and we’re paying for it.The Senators twice held one-goal leads. Dallas came back with four in a row late in the second period and early in the third, starting with rookie Heiskanen’s first that tied the game at 12:45 of the second period.Fedun scored the tiebreaking goal at 18:48 of the second. Heiskanen and Comeau added third-period goals for a 5-2 lead.After Lajoie and Smith rallied Ottawa within a goal before Bayreuther scored with 2:10 to play.Dzingel and Tkachuk had given Ottawa its early leads.Anton Khudobin stopped 29 shots for the Stars.Ottawa’s Bobby Ryan had three assists, and Thomas Chabot and Matt Duchene added two apiece.For Dallas, Mattias Janmark, Devin Shore and Alexander Radulov each had two assists.Teamwork resulted in the game’s first goal for Ottawa 3:05 into the game. Chabot dug the puck out of the left corner and Ryan took it behind the goal line and passed out to Dzingel in front, who scored his 10th goal of the season on a wrist shot.Dallas tied the game 1-1 at 10:22. Tyler Seguin sent the puck across from the right corner, and Benn deflected it into the left side of the net before Anderson could get back into position.Ottawa took its last lead on Tkachuk’s goal on its first power play at 10:02 of the second period.NOTES: Ottawa D Ben Harpur returned after missing two months because of a back injury. … Senators RW Mark Stone left in the third period after being hit in the face by a shot. … Stars C Devin Shore (lower-body injury) started the game after missing four games on injured reserve. G Ben Bishop (lower body) went on IR. … D Julius Honka (illness) was inactive for the second straight game. … D Taylor Fedun was recalled from Texas of the AHL to play his first game for Dallas since being traded from Buffalo on Nov. 10. . The North Stars/Stars franchise record for shots is 68 in Minnesota’s 4-3 loss to the Kings on March 24, 1981.UP NEXTSenators: At the Rangers on Monday to play the third of four straight road games.Stars: At Colorado on Saturday to begin a four-game trip during a stretch with seven of eight games on the road. PITTSBURGH (AP) — Curtis McElhinney’s been doing this a long time. More than a decade into his well-traveled NHL career, the Carolina Hurricanes goaltender understands how things tighten up after the All-Star break.His team scrambling for a spot in the postseason for the first time in nearly 10 years Arizona Coyotes T-Shirts Womens , McElhinney provided the Hurricanes with a jolt, turning aside 23 shots for his first shutout of the season in a 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday.“He made some saves when he needed to tonight and was able to (let) us relax and not have to chase the game,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said.Brett Pesce and Jordan Martinook scored from way out to give the Hurricanes the lead and Michael Ferland and Andrei Svechnikov poured it on late as Carolina began a pivotal five-game trip by becoming just the second team all season to hold the Penguins scoreless. McElhinney picked up the ninth shutout of his 11-year career by stuffing Jared McCann and Jake Guentzel with sprawling saves in the first period and never letting up.“We’re in a critical spot where we need to just have to keep pushing every game,” McElhinney said.Matt Murray made 28 saves for the Penguins but lost for the third time in four starts since the All-Star break. Pittsburgh struggled to generate any consistent offensive pressure against McElhinney while playing without injured star Evgeni Malkin, who missed his third consecutive game with an upper-body injury.“Obviously he’s one of the best players in the world but since I’ve been here five years we’ve always battled through injuries and doesn’t matter who is injured, we still have enough guys in here who can step up,” Penguins forward Patric Hornqvist said. “We just have to find it.”The Penguins began Tuesday tied with Washington for second place in the Metropolitan Division while Carolina sat three points behind Columbus for the second wild-card spot in the jam-packed Eastern Conference with 30 games remaining. The Hurricanes have hung around thanks in large part to the steady play of the 35-year-old McElhinney, who improved to 12-6-1 while collecting his first shutout since March 17, 2018 Arizona Coyotes Hoodies Womens , while playing for Toronto.Pittsburgh tested McElhinney early. McCann, acquired in a trade with Florida last week, collected a loose puck in front and darted across the crease. McElhinney went to his belly in an effort to poke check, missed, and then raised his right leg, which stopped McCann’s shot when McCann couldn’t get the puck in the air. He made another big stop on Guentzel later in the period and fended off a shot by Sidney Crosby from the left circle with a right pad save.“You look at (McElhinney), he’s just so calm,” Martinook said. “It almost looks easy. Everything looks easy. So for him to come in there and do that job is phenomenal, and gives us more confidence than we already had in him.”The Hurricanes didn’t let the reprieve go to waste. Martinook took a drop pass from Jacob Slavin and ripped a wrist shot from the top of the left circle that deflected off the end of Murray’s glove and into the net with 44 seconds left in the first.Pittsburgh had a chance to tie it when Hornqvist drew a penalty then found himself alone on the door step on the ensuing power play midway through the second period. His wrist shot ended up in McElhinney’s glove. Pesce doubled Carolina’s lead shortly after the penalty expired Arizona Coyotes Hats Womens , letting a shot go from atop the left circle that found its way through traffic — including sprawled Pittsburgh defender Jack Johnson and by Murray 12:58 into the second.That was more than enough for McElhinney, who received plenty of help in front of him. The Penguins didn’t even record a shot over the first 10 minutes of the third period and Carolina’s lead was never in doubt. Ferland scored into an empty net with 1:31 left and Svechnikov added one for insurance with 42 seconds remaining after Murray returned to the ice.“We had some really good looks, everybody I thought,” Crosby said. “It was a tight game and we’ve got to find ways to win games like that.”NOTES: Both teams went 0 for 2 on the power play. … Referee Brian Pochmara left in the second period with a lower-body injury and did not return. … Pittsburgh D Justin Schultz skated with his teammates Wednesday morning and is close to a return after fracturing his left leg in Montreal on Oct. 13. … Pittsburgh C Matt Cullen played in his 1,487th career game, tying Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky for 22nd on the all-time list. … Carolina improved 21-1-2 when leading after two periods. … Crosby played in his 914th game, one short of Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux’s franchise record.UP NEXTHurricanes: Travel to Buffalo on Thursday to face the Sabres.Penguins: Begin a three-game road trip on Thursday in Florida against the Panthers.__