Jamie Benn scored his 400th career goal and Jason Robertson continued his torrid scoring spree as the visiting Dallas Stars trounced the floundering Edmonton Oilers 8-3 on Tuesday.

Wyatt Johnston scored once in a four-point game, Robertson netted one goal and two assists, Nathan Bastian tallied twice and Roope Hintz, Sam Steel and Justin Hryckowian added singles for Dallas. Benn, Steel, Tyler Seguin and Radek Faksa all had two-point games.

Goaltender Jake Oettinger made 22 saves for the Stars, who are on a 7-1-1 tear.

Connor Clattenburg, Evan Bouchard and Jack Roslovic replied for the Oilers, who have only one victory in five outings (1-3-1).

Edmonton’s starting goalie, Stuart Skinner, was pulled after surrendering four goals on eight shots in the first period. Calvin Pickard stopped 18 of 22 shots in relief.

Benn sent the Stars off and running on the game’s first shot at 3:48 when he tapped home a loose puck at the edge of the crease for a milestone marker. He became the 113th player in NHL history to score 400 career goals.

Hintz doubled the lead at 10:51 of the first, pouncing on a rebound from the low slot for a power-play goal.

Bastian extended the margin less than five minutes later by firing a top-corner shot when he elected to shoot on a 2-on-1 rush. At the time, Edmonton had managed only three shots on net.

Steel capped the one-sided opening frame at 18:46 when he slipped home a puck lying in the crease.

Clattenburg, playing his second NHL game, put the Oilers on the board with his first career big-league tally thanks to a rebound chance at 4:39 of the second, but the Stars subsequently put down the hammer again.

Robertson added another power-play goal 10 minutes later, a tap-in set up by Johnston’s feed. Johnston then netted a man-advantage marker 95 seconds later when he whacked home a loose puck.

Robertson has tallied 11 times in a seven-game goal streak. He is also riding an eight-game points streak (11 goals, seven assists).

Bouchard and Roslovic traded third-period goals with Hryckowian and Bastian to round out the scoring.

–Field Level Media

After finishing a three-game road trip with back-to-back losses at Anaheim and Utah, the Vegas Golden Knights open a four-game homestand against the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night in Las Vegas.

The Golden Knights, who use the nickname “The Fortress” during broadcasts when referring to T-Mobile Arena, have struggled on home ice so far this season. Vegas has just five regulation home wins in 11 games (5-3-3) and has lost four of its last five home contests (1-2-2).

The Golden Knights come in off a 5-1 loss to Utah in Salt Lake City on Monday. Mammoth forward Logan Cooley scored four goals, the final two empty-netters, and also had an assist. It marked the first time a player scored four in a game against Vegas since Feb. 13, 2020, when St. Louis Blues forward Zach Sanford achieved the feat.

The Golden Knights, who outshot Utah 16-4 in the second period, had closed within 2-1 on a goal by Ivan Barbashev before Cooley scored a natural hat trick in the final period, the last one short-handed against a 6-on-4 Vegas power play.

“It’s tough to lose like that,” Barbashev said, “but we just got to regroup and move forward.”

Ottawa will be playing the fourth game of a season-high seven-game road trip. The Senators opened the trip with back-to-back 3-2 victories at Anaheim and San Jose but couldn’t complete a three-game sweep of California teams, losing 2-1 to the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.

The contest with the Kings was scoreless heading into the third period. Warren Foegele scored on a tap-in of a Joel Armia pass by the left post to give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead at the 5:31 mark, but Ottawa tied it midway through the period when Fabian Zetterlund put in a rebound of a Nikolas Matinpalo shot from the left circle.

The Kings’ Brandt Clark scored the game-winner on a power play with 6:10 remaining, one-timing a shot that bounced off the left leg of Ottawa defenseman Artem Zub and into the net.

“It was just a tight game,” Senators coach Travis Green said. “Both teams checked well. They got a bounce at the end, and what decided it was one bounce.”

Zetterlund said, “There was not much going on. We both played a really good game, and then they got the win at the end. It’s a tough loss.”

Ottawa forward Drake Batherson said his team needs to regroup quickly.

“We’ve got another good team next game against Vegas,” Batherson said postgame. “Play the same way we did tonight and I think we’ll have a good chance.”

Ottawa held an optional skate on Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena, and one of the players who worked out was captain Brady Tkachuk.

Tkachuk, an all-star who is expected to be a key member on the U.S. Olympic team in February, has been out since sustaining ligament damage to his right thumb in an Oct. 13 game against the Nashville Predators. The ailment necessitated surgery. The Senators have gone 10-5-4 without Tkachuk, who could return to action this week.

“He’s great,” Green said. “I expect him to play sooner than later.”

–Field Level Media

Though only 22 games into his rookie season, Anaheim Ducks coach Joel Quenneville has already observed significant growth in the game of forward Beckett Sennecke.

Sennecke and the Ducks continue a six-game, 12-day homestand Wednesday when they host the Vancouver Canucks and look to improve on an 8-2-0 home record.

The 19-year-old has seven goals and nine assists and trails only Montreal’s Ivan Demidov in rookie scoring entering Wednesday’s action.

“Beckett is a pretty amazing player,” Quenneville told TSN 1050 in Toronto. “He does have great patience, and he does have good play recognition. I think he’s growing leaps and bounds here since he’s started the year knowing that there’s a certain way we play without the puck, but have that freedom with it, and I think he’s got a lot of freedom the way he plays.”

Anaheim erased 2-0 and 3-2 deficits to top the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 in overtime on Saturday night. Jackson LaCombe, Troy Terry and Cutter Gauthier each had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who have won three of four.

Sennecke added a helper to extend his point streak to four games (one goal, three assists).

Lukas Dostal, Wednesday’s likely starter, made 29 saves to improve to 11-5-1 in 17 games.

Wednesday is the first of four meetings between the Canucks and the Ducks.

Vancouver took three of four games last season, but travels to Anaheim with just one win in its past seven (1-4-2).

“Twenty-three games in, you look at the standings, it’s not even close to where we want to be, so every game means a lot more to us, as it should, especially against divisional teams,” forward Jake DeBrusk said.

The Canucks open a four-game road trip following a 5-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Sunday.

Filip Hronek and Quinn Hughes scored for the Canucks, who have dropped three straight.

Vancouver, which is 6-5-1 on the road this season, will also visit San Jose, Los Angeles and Colorado on the seven-day road trip.

“Every game is important, obviously, going into this road swing, playing against good teams — teams that are above us (in the standings),” DeBrusk said. “It’d be nice to get on a little bit of a roll. It’d be nice to put a good game together and play a full 60.

“We got to focus on how do we get better, especially from our goal out, and the rest will take care of itself.”

The Canucks announced Tuesday that goaltender Kevin Lankinen did not travel with the team to Anaheim due to personal reasons and that Jiri Patera has been recalled from the AHL’s Abbotsford Canucks.

Goalie Thatcher Demko (lower-body injury) is with the Canucks and could be an option later in the road trip, according to head coach Adam Foote.

–Field Level Media

Logan Cooley and the Utah Mammoth are riding high as they prepare to play host to the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday in Salt Lake City.

Cooley is coming off a franchise-best four-goal, five-point night while leading the Mammoth to a 5-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday. Going into the clash, he had only one goal in 11 games.

“Just to see how excited the guys were for me, too, you get a cool feeling when you get the support of your teammates,” Cooley said. “I just think in general we have such a tight group. Guys really care about each other and want everyone on the team to have success. So, it’s awesome.”

Utah, which staked a 2-0 lead in the first period and never looked back, has won two straight and is on a 3-1-3 run.

Decisively handing the Golden Knights their first regulation-time loss in two weeks is a huge boost for the Mammoth heading into the last outing in a four-game home stand.

“I think we are a really good team, and if we want to be successful, we need to find a way every night, and that’s part of being one of the best teams in the NHL,” said goaltender Karel Vejmelka, who posted a 33-save performance. “So, we need to find a way every single night, no matter what, and we did it tonight. We showed up, and it feels really good.”

Cooley isn’t the only Mammoth to find his scoring touch. Dylan Guenther scored one goal and had an assist after only managing three goals in his last 11 games.

Montreal, meanwhile, is starting a three-game road trip and feeling optimistic.

The Canadiens snapped a five-game skid with a 5-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, a clash in which they scored twice in the first period and twice more in the second frame.

“We played with a lot of pace, made it hard for them, just playing a deep game, forechecking,” said defenseman Noah Dobson, who scored twice. “And then when we do that, we get all our looks we want in the ‘O’ zone and find our chances. And we were able to capitalize.”

Montreal, which is dealing with a wave of injuries that has put forwards Alex Newhook, Patrik Laine and Kirby Dach on the shelf, has newcomer Alexandre Texier on the trip.

Texier, who was released from his contract with the St. Louis Blues and signed by Montreal on Sunday, is hoping the change of scenery will be a boon to his career.

“No matter what, you’ve always got something to prove,” Texier told the Montreal Gazette. “I’ll have something to prove now, even if everything goes well. We have to prove it again and again. That’s part of the NHL.”

Whether Texier plays on Wednesday remains to be seen, but he is pegged to skate on the third or fourth line.

“He’s got a high level of skill,” said coach Martin St. Louis. “He needs to get acclimated with the group. He needs to figure out how we play collectively, on both sides of the puck. There’s a process for that.”

–Field Level Media