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Matt
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scored late in the third period and the Dallas Stars beat the Predators 3-1 on
Saturday night.After making 49 saves in a Dec. 27 shutout in Nashville, Khudobin
was again excellent, setting up Comeau¡¯s and Janmark¡¯s decisive goals.¡°As the
game goes on, we kept the intensity better and better and better,¡± Khudobin
said. ¡°I think we had more legs in the third period and got the result.¡±Tyler
Seguin also scored for Dallas, which has won four straight. Radek Faksa and Esa
Lindell each had two assists.¡°I thought we got better as the game progressed,¡±
Dallas coach Jim Montgomery said. ¡°Nashville came at us in the first and I
thought we weathered it really well. I just love how our group has matured with
handling of moments of when the other team has momentum. We bend but we don¡¯t
break.¡±Calle Jarnkrok scored for Nashville, which had its three-game winning
streak snapped.With time winding down, Comeau beat Pekka Rinne low to the stick
side at 15:47. Nashville challenged the goal for goaltender
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dumped it in and Faksa did a great job of winning the race to the puck,¡± Comeau
said. ¡°Came around the net and he gave it to (Janmark) and I just tried to go to
the net. I actually thought (Janmark) was going to shoot and he made a great
pass.¡±Janmark collected the rebound of Faksa¡¯s shot and put it behind Rinne 43
seconds later.¡°When the game was on the line, 1-1 game ¡ personally for me,
somehow I¡¯ve got to be better,¡± Rinne said. ¡°It¡¯s been up and down the last
little while here.¡±Jarnkrok scored the game¡¯s first goal at 9:35 of the opening
period. Inside the Dallas blue line, Ryan Hartman sent a pass to Jarnkrok in the
high slot. He moved to the right circle and fired off of a wrist shot that hit
off of the left post and in behind Khudobin.Seguin tied it 1:36 later. Lindell
fired the puck into the Nashville zone on the left boards. It reached former
Predator Alexander Radulov on the right boards, where he turned and passed to
Seguin above the right circle. He beat Rinne low to the glove side.Rinne made 23
saves.After scoring twice in Friday¡¯s home victory over Minnesota, Seguin has
four goals in his last four games.Seguin¡¯s goal was one of just four shots the
Stars got on goal in the first.The Predators were 0 for 4 on the power play.
They have failed to score a man-advantage goal in their last nine games, going 0
for 31.¡°I thought in Vegas (two games
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Laviolette said. ¡°We had lots of looks. We hit the post a few times. It wasn¡¯t
as clear tonight.¡±Notes: Prior to the game, the Predators honored former forward
Jordin Tootoo, who retired from hockey earlier in the season. ¡ Jarnkrok has
four points in his last five games against Dallas. ¡ The Stars are 7-13-2 when
their opponent scores first this season. ¡ Dallas has won both matchups between
the two teams in Nashville this season and the teams play again in Music City
Thursday.UP NEXT:Stars: Host Arizona Coyotes Monday.Predators: Host Arizona
Coyotes Tuesday. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Joe Thornton talked to several teams last
summer when he made his first trip to the free-agent market before ultimately
deciding to return to San Jose on a one-year deal.This time there was never any
doubt.¡±Obviously there were some teams calling, but I told my agent/brother
let¡¯s keep it quiet this year, I want to go back to San Jose,¡± Thornton said
Monday. ¡±Obviously talking to you guys at the end of the year that¡¯s no secret.
I feel this team is just getting better and better. ¡ Our window is always open
it seems in San Jose, and it¡¯s a good feeling.¡±Thornton signed a one-year, $5
million contract on his 39th
birthday
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year to help make sure the Sharks have the room to add other top players.
Thornton had been willing to take even less had John Tavares decided to take San
Jose¡¯s offer instead of signing a $77 million, seven-year deal with Toronto on
Sunday.But Thornton still believes strongly in the group that general manager
Doug Wilson, coach Peter DeBoer and owner Hasso Plattner have put together and
feels the pieces are in place for that elusive Stanley Cup run.¡±It would have
been nice to get Johnny, but I think if you look at our team still, Doug and
Hasso and Pete, they¡¯ve allowed us to compete every year, and I think there¡¯s no
difference again this year,¡± Thornton said. ¡±We¡¯re going to compete for a Cup.
But yeah, I was going to be flexible and will always try to help out the
franchise in that way.¡±The Sharks also locked up restricted free agent forward
Tomas Hertl with a $22.5 million, four-year deal on Monday that buys out the
first two years of unrestricted free agency.Hertl took on a bigger role last
season after Thornton went down with a season-ending right knee injury Jan. 23.
Thornton had torn the ACL and MCL in his left knee the previous season but said
he¡¯s ahead of where he was at this point last summer and expects to be 100
percent at the start of training camp.Thornton started slowly last season while
recovering from knee surgery but was back near his top form by the end of
November. He had 11 goals and 15 assists in his final 28 games before the
injury.¡±I¡¯ve never seen anybody train like this. You look at his birth
certificate and it says a number there. But he¡¯s childlike when it comes for his
passion and love for the
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Wilson said. ¡±He¡¯s had so much time now and was so close to playing that I
t6hink he¡¯ll come back way ahead of where he was last year.¡±Thornton has been
the face of the franchise in San Jose since arriving in 2005, helping the team
reach three Western Conference finals and one trip the Stanley Cup Final in
2016.He ranks 12th in NHL history with 1,030 assists and is 16th with 1,427
points. With seven more games, Thornton will become the 19th player to reach the
1,500-game mark for a career.The 24-year-old Hertl is just coming into his own
after being slowed by knee injuries early in his career. He had a career-high 22
goals to go along with 44 assists this past season and was strong on both ends
of the ice.Hertl was even better come playoff time with six goals and three
assists in 10 games. He also won 57.7 percent of his faceoffs. The Sharks are
counting on more of that kind of play in the future.¡±I just think his best
hockey is ahead of him,¡± Wilson said. ¡±He truly wants to be a great player.
Watching him in the playoffs this year, I think everybody saw him take that step
that not only we expected but he expected of himself.¡±The Sharks still have one
more restricted free agent to sign in forward Chris Tierney.¡ªAP Hockey Writer
Stephen Whyno contributed to this story¡ª