DALLAS (AP) When Dallas goaltender Kari Lehtonen had to face Pittsburgh’s top three scorers in a shootout Friday night [url=http://www.officialstarsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-jamie-benn-jersey... Benn Jersey[/url] , he relied on a memory going back all the way to the first period.Carl Hagelin had beaten Lehtonen on a breakaway for a two-goal lead. The Stars came back to take a brief lead. With help from their goalie and a game-winning shot by Tyler Seguin, they earned a 4-3 victory over the Penguins.”I tried to use the Hagelin goal kind of as a reminder,” Lehtonen said. ”I’m sure they were looking at that too, thinking of shooting and that’s a way to score, so I decided to stay a little bit more out and be patient rather than have a lot of flow backwards like I usually do.”The approach worked. Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Phil Kessel, with 71 goals between them this season, failed to score. Lehtonen saved Kessel’s shot on Pittsburgh’s last chance. Malkin shot wide left, and Crosby sent the puck off and over the crossbar.”I wasn’t that close to Crosby’s shot,” Lehtonen said. ”Luckily, he missed the net.”Lehtonen earned his fifth straight win, and Dallas also stretched its win streak to five games.Shooting second, Seguin sent a shot off Matt Murray’s right side and into the net.Dallas remained fourth in the Central Division, but pulled within three points of co-leaders Nashville and Winnipeg. Pittsburgh fell five points behind Metropolitan Division-leading Washington.The Penguins tied it with 1:13 left in regulation on defenseman Justin Schultz’s goal from above the left faceoff circle. Murray had been replaced by a sixth skater.”It was a big point,” Schultz said. ”We would have liked two, but that’s a good team over there.”Pittsburgh took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Riley Sheahan and Hagelin.The Stars’ comeback began when Seguin scored his sixth goal in five games at 17:57 of the first period. John Klingberg and Dan Hamhuis scored early in the third period to give Dallas a 3-2 lead.It was the first win for the Stars when trailing after two periods, and the first loss for Pittsburgh when leading entering the third.”We’re usually a good third-period team [url=http://www.officialstarsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-jason-spezza-jers... ,” Murray said. ”It’s unfortunate that a game like that has to go to a shootout, but we played really well.”Lehtonen finished with a season-high 34 saves.After the Stars missed the playoffs last season, they acquired goaltender Ben Bishop, who has played in more than two-thirds of their games.”I think they’re quite frankly one of the big stories of the team,” Stars coach Ken Hitchcock said. ”Your goalie is gonna have to be the best player on the road and he has to win games for you if you’re gonna be a playoff team.”Murray made 33 saves, including stops on breakaways by Jamie Benn and Alexander Radulov in overtime.Benn assisted on all three goals for Dallas.Sheahan scored at 9:07 of the first period. He beat Dallas’ Jason Spezza to a loose puck, skated down the left side and slid a backhand between Lehtonen’s legs.Dallas had a power play when Hagelin took the puck for a breakaway. Klingberg tried to reach out to slow Hagelin with his stick, but Hagelin beat Lehtonen anyway at 10:54.NOTES: Pittsburgh C Zach Aston-Reese assisted on Sheahan’s goal for his first point in his third NHL game. … Stars rookie D Dillon Heatherington also had first NHL point in his fifth game, assisting on Seguin’s goal. … Penguins D Jamie Oleksiak played against his former team for the first time since Dallas traded him in December. … Stars C Martin Hanzal missed his 21st game this season after being hit in the left leg by a teammate’s shot during Thursday’s game at Chicago. … LW Conor Sheary returned to Pittsburgh’s lineup after missing three games.UP NEXTPenguins: Complete a two-game trip Sunday at St. Louis.Stars: Host Vancouver on Sunday. Jason Botterill has experienced both sides of the spectrum in confronting the challenges of building a competitive NHL team versus trying to sustain one.In Buffalo, the Sabres’ second-year general manager is attempting to rebuild from scratch a team in the midst of a franchise-worst, seven-year playoff drought. In his previous job as assistant GM in Pittsburgh, the test was keeping together a Sidney Crosby-led core of a team that became the first in nearly 20 years to repeat as Stanley Cup champions in 2016-17.Botterill noted the common denominator for both comes down to scouting.“You’re always searching for talent,” Botterill said. “So it gets back to the importance of finding players that are going to join your system.”Teams at the bottom need to stockpile young talent, and hope it eventually jells. 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The Carolina Hurricanes, meanwhile, are counting on forward Andrei Svechnikov, the No. 2 pick, to help a franchise snap a nine-season playoff drought — the NHL’s longest active streak.There’s pressure on the league’s elite, too.Winning teams lack the luxury of high draft picks, and are required to discover hidden gems in the draft and signing European and college free agents.As Penguins GM Jim Rutherford also noted, the NHL’s salary-cap system means successful teams have a more difficult time retaining their own talent.“You want to keep those players, but you can’t,” Rutherford said. “We went through it two years ago when we lost a bunch of real key players. There’s nothing to do about it. You can’t.”Valuable as they were, forward Chris Kunitz, goalie Marc Andre-Fleury, defensemen Eric Fehr and Ian Cole, and in this offseason’s case, forward Conor Sheary, were among the players the Penguins were unable to retain.Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman [url=http://www.officialstarsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-mattias-janmark-j... Janmark Jersey[/url] , who won nine Stanley Cup titles between three teams, said the salary cap makes it more difficult to maintain a contender, though it’s not all that different since winning his first championship with the 1973 Montreal Canadiens.“The challenge is you have to have players coming in the front door,” Bowman said. “When I was in Montreal, they had a slogan that was in the dressing room. It said ‘And the kids go marching on.’ That was 50 years ago, but it’s so much more now.”A list of some of the top newcomers (and one familiar returnee) to look out for this season:RASMUS DAHLIN, Buffalo Sabres defensemanHe’s a smooth-skating, heads-up play-making Swedish-born blue-liner, who has shown a fearless ability of jumping into the rush. Dahlin will require time to adapt to the smaller NHL ice surface and has shown signs of being a little too cavalier with the puck in committing turnovers. He is improving as a defender, and expected to quarterback the top power-play unit. The Sabres intend to allow Dahlin to learn from his mistakes in giving him plenty of playing time this year.ELIAS PETTERSSON, Vancouver Canucks centerWith Vancouver’s 2018 first-round draft pick defenseman Quinn Hughes committed to playing this season at Michigan, there’s plenty of buzz over Pettersson, the No. 5 overall pick in 2017. He’s coming off a season in which he helped Vaxjo win the Swedish Elite League championship and earned regular-season and playoff MVP honors.RYAN DONATO, Boston Bruins forwardAfter spending three seasons playing at Harvard for his father, former NHL player Ted Donato, the 22-year-old got a head start on his NHL career by scoring five goals and nine points in 12 games for the Bruins last season.WARREN FOEGELE, Carolina Hurricanes left wingThough the jury remains out as to whether Svechnikov will spend the entire season in Carolina [url=http://www.officialstarsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-radek-faksa-jerse... Faksa Jersey[/url] , the Hurricanes are high on Foegele, their 2014 third-round pick.“He’s what we want in a Hurricane,” first-year coach Rod Brind’Amour told The Charlotte Observer this week. Foegele had two goals and an assist in his first two NHL games last season, and also finished second in AHL Charlotte with 28 goals as a rookie.BRADY TKACHUK, Ottawa Senators forwardSelected with the No. 4 pick in the draft, the son of former NHL star Keith Tkachuk is considered a key building block of a Senators team rebuilding from scratch. At 19, he overcame a slow start in his freshman year at Boston University to score eight goals and 31 points in 40 games. Ottawa’s youth movement also includes Colin White, a 2015 first-round pick, who had two goals and four assists in 21 NHL games last season.ILYA KOVALCHUK, Los Angeles Kings left wingHe’s back. After spending the past five seasons playing in the Kontinental Hockey League, the NHL’s 2001 No. 1 draft pick has returned to North America after signing a three-year contract with the Kings. At 35, Kovalchuk showed he’s not lost a step in splitting two Vegas defenseman and scoring his first preseason goal in a 7-2 loss last week. Kovalchuk has 417 goals and 816 points in 816 career games.