Casey DeSmith made 25 saves in his Stars debut for his eleventh profession shutout as Dallas defeated the visiting Seattle Kraken 2-0 on Sunday night time.
Sam Metal and Wyatt Johnston scored for the Stars, who prolonged their season-opening successful streak to a few video games.
It was the second shutout in as many nights for the Stars, as Jake Oettinger made 34 saves in a 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders in Dallas’ dwelling opener on Saturday.
DeSmith’s hardest cease got here with 1:32 left within the contest, as he needed to make a kick save on a slap shot from the highest of the left faceoff circle by Seattle’s Jaden Schwartz.
The Stars scored their targets 13 seconds aside late within the first interval.
On the primary tally, Thomas Harley picked off a Seattle clearance try on the blue line and fed the puck to Colin Blackwell down the left-wing boards. Blackwell’s centering cross throughout the highest of the crease discovered Metal, and Metal jammed the puck between Philipp Grubauer’s pads because the goaltender tried to go post-to-post on the 16:17 mark of the body.
The Stars gained the following faceoff and moved the puck down the correct wing, with Jamie Benn leaving a drop cross for Johnston, whose snap shot from the faceoff dot beat Grubauer at 16:30. Logan Stankoven acquired the secondary help on the play.
After a scoreless second interval, the Stars almost prolonged their lead when Tyler Seguin was despatched in on a breakaway simply over seven minutes into the third. Seguin went to his backhand, with Grubauer making a blocker save. Grubauer additionally stopped a breakaway by Mason Marchment with just below six minutes left.
Seattle’s finest scoring probability got here whereas on an influence play simply previous the midpoint of the third, when Jared McCann acquired the puck simply outdoors the left publish, however he pulled his shot broad.
Grubauer completed with 21 saves.
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