Oct 21, 2025; Dallas, Texas, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets heart Boone Jenner (38) scores an influence play aim in opposition to Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger (29) throughout the first interval on the American Airways Middle. Obligatory Credit score: Jerome Miron-Imagn Photos Boone Jenner, Adam Fantilli and Kent Johnson every had a aim and an help for the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets in a 5-1 win in opposition to the Dallas Stars on Tuesday.
Denton Mateychuk and Dmitri Voronkov additionally scored for the Blue Jackets, who scored three third-period targets to seal their second consecutive victory. Elvis Merzlikins made 22 saves.
Tyler Seguin scored and Jake Oettinger stopped 24 photographs for the Stars, who’ve misplaced three straight after opening the season with a three-game successful streak.
Columbus dominated the primary interval, outshooting Dallas 14-5 whereas staking a 2-0 lead.
Fantilli opened the scoring at 4:33. He intercepted Mikko Rantanen’s clearing try alongside the left wall and rimmed it across the finish boards to the opposite aspect, the place Johnson collected it and despatched it to Jenner under the aim line. The Blue Jackets captain rapidly despatched it to Fantilli in the precise circle for a rising snap shot that beat Oettinger over his left arm to make it 1-0.
Jenner linked on the ability play to double the lead at 18:42. Charlie Coyle dished a move from the underside of the left circle by the legs of Stars defenseman Lian Bichsel to an uncovered Jenner within the crease on the far aspect for the redirect.
Dallas pressured within the second interval, leaping out to a 7-0 shot benefit by the primary five-plus minutes of the body. Columbus did not document its first shot on aim of the interval till practically eight minutes in.
The hosts lastly broke by at 11:58 of the center body. Colin Blackwell took a shot from the highest of the left circle that Seguin deflected from the doorstep, slicing the deficit to 2-1.
The Blue Jackets added on within the third interval.
Yegor Chinakhov noticed Mateychuk coming into the zone, and Mateychuk took the move towards the slot earlier than snapping it previous Oettinger’s glove to make it 3-1 at 7:21.
Voronkov then elevated the result in 4-1 with a power-play aim at 14:26, when he put a snap shot from the slot by Oettinger’s pads.
Johnson added an empty-net aim at 17:00 for the 5-1 closing.
–Area Stage Media
