DALLAS -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Mike Hoffman each scored twice and the Ottawa Senators ended the Dallas Stars' five-game winning streak with a 7-4 victory on Tuesday.
Mark Stone had a goal and two assists, Bobby Ryan and Milan Michalek scored goals and Craig Anderson made 33 saves for Ottawa (11-5-5), which won its third in a row and is 6-2-1 on the road. The victory ended Ottawa's seven-game losing streak to Dallas; the Senators hadn't defeated the Stars since a 5-4 overtime win on Dec. 20, 2008.
Dallas (17-5-0) got a second-period goal from Patrick Sharp that ended Anderson's scoreless streak at 147:04, as well as two from Jamie Benn and one from Tyler Seguin in the third period. Benn leads the NHL with 16 goals.
Hoffman scored a power-play goal late in the second period and Pageau scored with Ottawa shorthanded early in the third to give Ottawa a 5-1 lead. Dallas got as close as 6-4 in the final minutes, with Benn scoring twice and Seguin once, but Hoffman's empty-netter with 1:42 remaining put the game away. That goal came on a length-of-the-ice bank shot seconds after Anderson robbed Benn at the near post with a spectacular diving save.
Ottawa, which was outshot 37-20, capitalized twice on turnovers by the Stars in their defensive zone for a 2-0 lead after one period and led 4-1 after two.
Ryan extended his point streak to nine games when he converted a turnover by Stars defenseman John Klingberg into his eighth goal of the season 7:10 into the game. Michalek made it 2-0 at 18:49 when he beat Stars goaltender Antti Niemi top shelf inside the far post with a wrist shot from the left circle.
Sharp made it 2-1 with his eighth of the season 7:04 into the second, but Ottawa answered at 12:33 when Stone intercepted a Patrick Eaves pass and scored from the slot at 12:33, chasing Niemi from the game. Kari Lehtonen came on in relief; however, Niemi had to re-enter the game 1:05 into the third after Lehtonen was injured during a collision with Klingberg.
The Senators scored again with 2:19 remaining in the second when Hoffman beat Lehtonen to the short side with a power-play slap shot from the left point.
Pageau scored on a breakaway 4:07 into the third, beating Niemi with a wrist shot from the slot that he appeared to initially stop before the puck trickled through his pads. It was Pageau's NHL-leading third shorthanded goal of the season.
Benn made it 5-2 with a shorthanded goal at 6:07, and Seguin scored off the rush at 8:04 with a wrist shot from the right circle that beat Anderson top shelf at the near post. Pageau's second of the game restored Ottawa's three-goal lead before Benn scored again with 3:12 remaining for his second consecutive two-goal game.
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