Defensemen Alex Goligoski and Stephane Robidas scored in regulation and Kari Lehtonen stopped 28 shots for the Stars, 2-2-2 in a season-high, seven-game homestand.
Dallas rallied from a two-goal deficit to tie it at 2 at 15:24 of the third period when Robidas skated into the Flyers zone and scored with a slap shot from the slot.
Predators 3, Red Wings 1 — Jonathon Blum scored a power-play goal at 8:12 of the third period, and host Nashville beat Detroit for its fourth victory in five games.
Fellow rookie Blake Geoffrion also scored and David Legwand had an empty-net goal with 28.4 seconds left. Patric Hornqvist had two assists for Nashville, which moved back into eighth place in the tightly bunched Western Conference.
Dan Cleary scored for the Red Wings, who had a four-game winning streak snapped.
Sabres 8, Thrashers 2 — Nathan Gerbe and Tyler Ennis scored 1:50 apart in the second period and host Buffalo opened ground in the tight Eastern Conference playoff race with a rout of Atlanta.
Rob Niedermayer scored twice and Ryan Miller (30-21-7) made 28 saves — and stopped Evander Kane’s penalty shot — to become the eighth NHL goalie with six consecutive 30-win seasons. Mark Mancari had a goal and two assists, and Tyler Myers had three assists for eighth-place Buffalo, which moved two points ahead of idle Carolina.
Alexander Burmistrov and Chris Thorburn scored for the Thrashers, who dropped six points behind the Sabres with three weeks left in the season.
Tim Connolly and Jason Pominville added a goal and an assist each, and Brad Boyes also scored for the Sabres.
Senators 3, Lightning 2 — Jason Spezza scored on a breakaway 3:28 into overtime and Curtis McElhinney stopped 34 shots as host Ottawa rallied from a 2-0 deficit to beat Tampa Bay.
Ryan Shannon’s shorthanded goal 12:27 into the third spoiled Dwayne Roloson’s shutout bid and drew Ottawa within 2-1. Nick Foligno tied it with his 12th goal at 16:05.
Spezza lost control of the puck on a breakaway but it trickled past Roloson (31 saves) for the winner.
Islanders 4, Panthers 3 — Frans Nielsen and P.A. Parenteau scored in the shootout and Rick DiPietro had 28 saves in his first game in six weeks to lift visiting New York.
