Steel and Johnston 14 seconds apart, DeSmith has 25 saves as Stars beat Kraken 2-0

DALLAS (AP) — Sam Steel and Wyatt Johnston scored 14 seconds apart late in the first period, Casey DeSmith made 25 saves for his 11th career shutout in his Dallas debut and the Stars beat the Seattle Kraken 2-0 on Sunday night.

It was the second shutout in two nights for the Stars as No. 1 goalie Jake Oettinger blanked the New York Islanders on Saturday night.

Steel was alone at the back post to poke a cross-ice pass from Colin Blackwell behind Philipp Grubauer with 3:43 remaining in the first. Johnston snapped a wrister home stick side at 13 seconds later following a drop pass from Jamie Benn.

Grubauer finished with 21 saves.

Johnston, who led Dallas with 32 goals last year, has points in each of his first three games.

Dallas most recently had back-to-back shutouts late last season, 3-0 at Seattle on March 30 and 5-0 against Edmonton at home on April 3.

Kraken: Were shut out for the first time in three games under new coach Dan Bylsma. They were blanked seven times last season, when they ranked 29th in goals.

Stars: Playing nine games in their first 17 days because of an early November trip to Finland, Dallas is looking for significant early contributions from DeSmith.

Johnston winning the faceoff following Steel’s goal, which he converted seconds later into the 2-0 lead.

The Stars killed all four penalties allowing two total shots on goal and are 10 for 11 on the penalty-kill this season.

The Kraken will finish a three-game Central Division road trip at Nashville on Tuesday, and the Stars complete a three-game homestand against San Jose.

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Dallas Stars center Oskar Back (10) tries to get the puck from Seattle Kraken center Shane Wright (51) in the second period during an NHL hockey game on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Dallas Stars center Colin Blackwell (15) and Seattle Kraken center Chandler Stephenson (9) battle for the puck in the second period during an NHL hockey game on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Seattle Kraken left wing Brandon Tanev (13) tries to score Dallas Stars defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin (46) defends in the second period during an NHL hockey game on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Seattle Kraken right wing Oliver Bjorkstrand (22) shoots against the Dallas Stars in the second period during an NHL hockey game on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Dallas Stars left wing Mason Marchment (27) shoots against Seattle Kraken defensemen Ryker Evans (41) and Adam Larsson (6) in the first period during an NHL hockey game Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Seattle Kraken defenseman Will Borgen (3), Kraken left wing Andre Burakovsky (95) and Dallas Stars defenseman Thomas Harley (55) chase the puck in the first period during an NHL hockey game Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Dallas Stars center Logan Stankoven (11) and Seattle Kraken center Jaden Schwartz (17) battle for the puck in the first period during an NHL hockey game Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Dallas Stars center Logan Stankoven (11) and Seattle Kraken center Jaden Schwartz (17) battle for the puck in the first period during an NHL hockey game Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Dallas Stars center Wyatt Johnston (53) celebrates after his first-period goal against the Seattle Kraken with defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin (46) and center Logan Stankoven (11) during an NHL hockey game Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Dallas Stars center Sam Steel (18) reacts after scoring against Seattle Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer (31) and defenseman Will Borgen (3) in the first period during an NHL hockey game Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

LONDON (AP) — A car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany, which police are treating as an attack, is the latest in a grim series of events in which vehicles have been used as deadly weapons.

There have been a spate of such attacks over the past decade, some committed by groups but most by individuals. The motives – where they could be established – have varied widely. Some were inspired by Islamic militant groups such as al-Qaida and ISIS, which encouraged followers to carry out low-cost, low-tech attacks with cars and trucks. Others have been linked to mental illness, far-right extremism and online misogyny.

What law-enforcement authorities term “vehicle as a weapon attacks” have reshaped cities around the world, as planners erect concrete barriers around public spaces and build anti-vehicle obstacles into new developments.

Here are some major vehicle attacks:

MAGDEBURG, Germany, Dec. 20. 2024 — At least five people are killed and more than 200 injured when a car slams into a Christmas market in eastern Germany. The suspect, who was arrested, is a 50-year-old doctor originally from Saudi Arabia who had expressed anti-Muslim views and support for the far-right AFD party.

ZHUHAI, China, Nov. 11, 2024 — A 62-year-old driver rams his car into people exercising at a sports complex in southern China, killing 35 people in the country’s deadliest mass slaying in years. Authorities said the perpetrator was upset about his divorce but offered few other details.

LONDON, Ontario, June 6, 2021 — Four members of a Muslim family die when an attacker hits them with a pickup truck while they are out for a walk, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls “a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred.” White nationalist attacker Nathaniel Veltman was sentenced to life in prison.

TORONTO, April 23, 2018 — A 25-year-old Canadian man, Alek Minassian, drives a rented van into mostly female pedestrians on Yonge St., the main thoroughfare in Toronto, killing 10 people and injuring 16. Minassian told police he belonged to the online “incel” community of sexually frustrated men.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2017 — Sayfullo Saipov, an Islamic extremist from Uzbekistan, drives a pickup truck onto a popular New York City bike path, killing eight.

BARCELONA, Aug. 17, 2017 — A man driving a van slams into people on the Spanish city’s crowded Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 14 and injuring many others. Several members of the same cell carry out a similar vehicle attack in the nearby resort town of Cambrils before they are shot dead by police. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Aug. 12, 2017 — During a “Unite the Right” rally, white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. intentionally drives his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring dozens of people.

LONDON: March 22, 2017 — British man Khalid Masood rams an SUV into people on Westminster Bridge, killing four, before stabbing to death a policeman guarding the Houses of Parliament nearby. He is shot dead. June 3, 2017 — three attackers drive a van at pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in nearby Borough Market. Eight people are killed and the attackers shot dead by police. June 19, 2017 — Darren Osborne, a man radicalized by far-right ideas, drives a van at worshippers outside a mosque in London’s Finsbury Park area, killing one man and injuring 15 people.

MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan 20, 2017 – Six people are killed and more than 30 injured when a car hits lunchtime crowds at a pedestrian mall in Australia’s second-largest city. Perpetrator James Gargasoulas is found to have been in a state of drug-induced psychosis.

BERLIN, December 19, 2016 — Anis Amri, a rejected asylum-seeker from Tunisia, plows a hijacked truck into a Christmas market in the German capital, killing 13 people and injuring dozens. The attacker is killed days later in a shootout in Italy.

NICE, France, July 14, 2016 — Tunisian-born French resident Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drives a rented truck for more than a mile (almost 2 kilometers) along a packed seaside promenade in the French Riviera resort on the Bastille Day holiday, killing 86 people in the deadliest attack of its kind.

APELDOORN, Netherlands, April 28, 2009 – Former security guard Karst Tates drives a car into parade spectators in an attempt to hit an open-topped bus carrying members of the Dutch royal family. Six people are killed and Tates dies of injuries the next day, leaving his full motive a mystery.

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, March 3, 2006 — University of North Carolina graduate Mohammed Taheri-Azar drives an SUV into a crowd at the university, lightly injuring nine people, in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim deaths overseas.

FILE - Injured people are treated in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 after a white van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists. (AP Photo/Oriol Duran, File)

FILE - In this April 23, 2018, file photo, police stand near a damaged van after a van mounted a sidewalk crashing into pedestrians in Toronto. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

FILE - Forensic officers move the van at Finsbury Park in north London, where a vehicle struck pedestrians in north London Monday, June 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2016 file photo the trailer of a truck stands beside destroyed Christmas market huts in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

FILE - In this July 14, 2016 file photo, authorities investigate a truck after it plowed through Bastille Day revelers in the French resort city of Nice, France, killing 86 people. (Sasha Goldsmith via AP, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 file photo, police secure the area on the south side of Westminster Bridge close to the Houses of Parliament in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

FILE - People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2016 file photo Christmas decoration sticks in the smashed window of the cabin of a truck which ran into a crowded Christmas market Monday evening killing several people in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)