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Thursday, December 1, 2011

{allcanada} Nystrom's late goal leads Stars past Senators 3-2

DALLAS (AP)—Eric Nystrom scored the tiebreaking goal with 2:20 left and the Dallas Stars rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.

Nystrom took possession of the puck behind the Ottawa net, drifted to the left circle and fired a shot past goalie Craig Anderson for his ninth goal of the season, one short of matching his career high.

Milan Michalek had given the Senators a 2-1 advantage at 11:42 of the final period.

Daniel Alfredsson took a shot from the right point that rebounded off goalie Andrew Raycroft to the left circle. Michalek beat two Stars to the puck and then beat Raycroft with a shot for his team-high 15th goal.

Radek Dvorak and Steve Ott also scored for Dallas, and Raycroft made 33 saves.

Erik Condra had Ottawa's other goal.

Dvorak got Dallas even at 2 with 5:34 left in the third period when he converted Mike Ribeiro's centering pass for his third of the season.

Ott added a power-play goal for Dallas, and Raycroft made a glove save on a point-blank attempt by Michalek just before the final buzzer.

Raycroft, filling in for injured regular Kari Lehtonen (groin), made back-to-back starts for the first time this season.

Dallas is 4-1-1 in its last six games.

Anderson made 29 saves for the Senators.

Condra gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead when he worked a 2-on-1 with Jared Cowen and connected on a wrister from the slot at 7:07 for his third of the season.

Ott's deflection of Toby Petersen's pass toward the net tied it at 1 at 9:38 of the first period on Dallas' second power play. It was Ott's fifth goal.

Dallas had been 0 for 22 with the man advantage before Ott scored.

NOTES: Ottawa D Filip Kuba was scratched after sustaining an undisclosed upper body injury in the previous game. … Senators RW Chris Neil missed his ninth straight game (sprained ankle) but is practicing and is close to returning . … In addition to Lehtonen, the Stars are without captain Brenden Morrow (multiple injuries), D Alex Goligoski (broken thumb), D Trevor Daley (back) and forward Adam Burish (broken hand). … Attendance continues to lag. The crowd was announced as 10,490, but there were several thousand fewer in the seats. … The teams met for the only time this season. … Dallas is 4-1-1 in its last six against Ottawa.