DALLAS – Brad Richards, Loui Eriksson and Mike Ribeiro scored in Dallas' perfect shootout and lifted the Stars to a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night.
Dallas (4-0), which overcame an early 2-0 deficit and was outshot 43-25, joined Toronto as the NHL's only undefeated teams. It was the Stars' second shootout victory this season.
James Neal and Eriksson scored in regulation to rally the Stars after Patrik Berglund and Andy McDonald staked St. Louis to its first-period lead.
The Blues, who opened the season with two straight home wins, have lost two consecutive road games.
Kari Lehtonen was outstanding for Dallas, making 41 saves and stopping two of three shooters in the shootout. Only Brad Boyes scored against him in the tiebreaker.
Eriksson's shootout goal was initially waved off, but a video review showed that the puck slid into the net under goalie Ty Conklin.
Eriksson had scored the tying goal with 5:17 left in the second period, when he took a backhanded pass from behind the net from Richards and roofed a point-blank wrist shot over Conklin's shoulder.
Neal had a goal and an assist for Dallas, and Richards chipped in with two assists.
St. Louis outshot Dallas 14-5 in the third period and had a great chance to regain the lead early in the frame when Nicklas Grossman's delay-of-game penalty gave the Blues a 5-on-3 power play for 1:07. But St. Louis was unable to solve Lehtonen again.
Just seconds after coming out of the penalty box, Grossman was given four penalty minutes for high-sticking, but again the Blues failed to capitalize.
St. Louis needed only 3:48 of the first period to take a 2-0 lead. Berglund connected 1:11 in, getting a stick on Boyes' wrist shot and deflecting it past Lehtonen. McDonald then scored on a power play, converting a cross-ice pass from David Backes for an easy tap-in at the left post.
The Stars made it 2-1 with two minutes left in the first on Neal's second goal of the season. Neal scored with a one-timer from the high slot off a pass from Eriksson that squeezed through Conklin, who was making his first start of the season.
NOTES: With Game 2 of baseball's AL championship series being played in nearby Arlington, the announced crowd was 11,750. That is believed to be the lowest crowd for a Stars' regular-season home game. The actual attendance was only about 7,000. ... Dallas winger Fabian Brunnstrom, who has been a healthy scratch for each Stars game this season, cleared waivers and was expected to be assigned to AHL Texas on Sunday. ... Dallas second-year forward Jamie Benn sat out his second straight game because of concussion-like symptoms.
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