Viktor Arvidsson's hat trick helps Bruins beat Stars, extend surge

Viktor Arvidsson scored twice in the third period to finish off his fifth career hat trick while Henri Jokiharju netted the game-winner, leading the Boston Bruins to a 6-3 win over the visiting Dallas Stars on Tuesday night.

The Bruins (43-24-8, 94 points) broke a 2-2 tie after two periods with four of the game's final five goals, earning their fourth straight win and seventh in 10 games (7-1-2).

Jokiharju and Elias Lindholm each registered a goal and an assist, Marat Khusnutdinov also scored and David Pastrnak dished out three helpers for Boston.

Bruins goalie Joonas Korpisalo (13 saves) faced just three third-period shots as his team held a 23-16 advantage in that category.

Wyatt Johnston posted a goal and an assist, Matt Duchene and Jamie Benn also scored goals, and Jake Oettinger stopped 17 shots for Dallas (44-19-12, 100 points), which is just 1-4-2 in its last seven contests.

Lindholm needed just 13 seconds of third-period time to give the Bruins a 3-2 lead with a power-play goal, striding into the zone and up to the top of the right circle to laser a shot past Oettinger high to the blocker side.

A huge piece of insurance came in the form of Jokiharju's first goal as a Bruin at 5:51. The defenseman snapped off a shot from the high slot after receiving a feed back from Lindholm who was marked well near the net front.

Just as Oettinger was exiting in favor of an extra attacker, Arvidsson scored an empty-net goal from beyond the defensive blue line with 3:37 left in regulation.

After Johnston's tight backhand finish during a 6-on-4 sequence brought Dallas within 5-3 with 58 seconds left, Arvidsson finished his hat trick with another long try into an open goal.

Boston opened the scoring 9:58 into the first, as Khusnutdinov buried the rebound of a Jokiharju point shot that Oettinger sent back into the low slot.

Arvidsson made it a 2-0 game with 1:09 left in the first, redirecting Pastrnak's centering pass from behind the goal line into the net.

The visitors clawed back into the game at 2-1 at 4:49 of the second. Benn followed up Johnston's shot by banging in a loose puck around the crease.

With 3:07 left in the middle frame, a wide-open Duchene scooped the puck and tucked it glove-side from close range to level the score.