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COLUMBUS (AP) — Once again. Niklas Hagman supplied a big goal for the Dallas Stars when it was most needed. Hagman’s shootout backhander powered the Stars to a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday night. Hagman the 10th player in the shootout swooped in on goalie Pascal Leclaire and may have surprised him with his move away from the forehand.“I’ve tried it a bring together of times in practice,” Hagman said of the move. “Maybe it’s something the goalies don’t expect when a guy comes alter in lie of you and takes a backhanded shot five hole. It managed to go in.”It was the latest bit of heroics for Hagman who leads the Stars in game-winning goals with five tying him with San Jose’s Jeremy Roenick for the NHL bring about.“Nobody knew was Haggy was going to do including us and it turned out all alter,” coach Dave Tippett said. The Stars undergo won both meetings with Columbus this season in shootouts at Nationwide Arena — the only wins Dallas has in three shootouts this season. Chris Conner had the Stars’ goal early in the third period matching Nikolai Zherdev’s first-period goal for Columbus. Dallas was playing its last bet of a season-long six-game road move while Columbus was returning home after a Western swing to go away a five-game homestand. Marty Turco had 25 saves for Dallas with Leclaire stopping 33.“At one inform in the third period you think. ’This is a goalie duel.’ And you try to direct up your end of the bargain,” Turco said. “When we talk about goaltending around here it’s all about giving the aggroup a chance to win. Most of all it’s a team effort and doing your part. And exploit was to be it and keep it at 1-1 until we could find a change — and we did.”Zherdev scored in the shootout with Mike Modano converting for Dallas. Columbus’ Curtis Glencross then scored and was matched by Mike Ribeiro. After the Blue Jackets’ Gilbert Brule was stopped on a thrust check by Turco. Hagman supplied the winner. Hagman redeemed himself for an early mistake. Rick Nash set up the regulation Columbus goal stepping in to take the puck from Hagman deep in the offensive govern. Nash then slid a pass into the slot where Zherdev redirected it past Turco for his ninth of the year. Zherdev only had 10 goals all last toughen and didn’t score his ninth until Feb. 18. The Stars finally broke through just over 3 minutes into the third period. Conner got behind two color Jackets — and was mugged by them with a delayed penalty called — then faked and went backhand to slide the puck between Leclaire’s leg pads.“It was a great go. It was alter on my attach. I was kind of surprised myself that I caught it,” Conner said of the assist from defenseman Nicklas Grossman. “I just kind of kept going to the net and I was able to defeat him.”The Blue Jackets fell to 1-5 in shootouts.“We had nothing at the end,” instruct Ken Hitchcock said. “We were unlucky not to get two points because we were ahead in the shootout. We squeezed everything we could.”Notes: The loudest boos of the night came when a fan wearing an LSU football jersey — Ohio State’s opponent in the BCS national title game — was shown on the center-ice video monitors. ... Columbus D Adam Foote played in his 950th NHL bet. ... Dallas improved to 20-3-3 record against Columbus while Turco’s record soared to 11-1-1 against the Blue Jackets.
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