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Dallas Stars' Tyler Seguin (91) celebrates with the bench after scoring against the Winnipeg Jets during second period NHL hockey action in Winnipeg, Tuesday, February 2, 2016.Trevor Hagan/The Canadian Press

Tyler Seguin scored a pair of goals as the Dallas Stars held on for a 5-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday.

Dallas defenceman John Klingberg and forward Vernon Fiddler both scored their seventh goals of the season while Klingberg added an assist. Antoine Roussel put in an empty-netter with 42 seconds left.

Drew Stafford, Adam Lowry and Dustin Byfuglien scored for Winnipeg (22-25-3). Connor Hellebuyck made 22 saves.

Seguin scored for the first time in five games and Klingberg had gone eight games without a goal.

Antti Niemi turned aside 21 shots for Dallas (32-14-5)

Stafford got the Jets on the board with a power-play goal at 14:16 of the first period.

With Stars defenceman Jason Demers in the penalty box for tripping, Stafford's shot from outside the face-off circle went by Niemi, who had Jets forward Andrew Ladd providing a screen right in front of him.

Dallas evened it up 51 seconds into the second period just after Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien had left the box for slashing.

Seguin ripped off a shot from inside the face-off circle and Hellebuyck couldn't move over fast enough to stop the centre's 26th goal of the season.

Lowry regained Winnipeg's lead three minutes later when he kept banging at the puck off a sprawled Niemi and it went under the netminder at 4:41.

Dallas then scored three straight goals.

Klingberg tied it 2-2 on an unusual breakaway. After Cody Eakin had his stick knocked out of his hands near centre ice, he continued up the ice without it alongside Demers and Klingberg. Demers passed to Klingberg and he beat the outnumbered Hellebuyck at 14:41.

The Stars took their first lead of the game two minutes later after Ales Hemsky dropped a pass to a trailing Fiddler, who scored at 16:52.

Forty seconds after Jets forward Andrew Copp went to the box for tripping, Seguin had the puck come back to him and he fired it through traffic past Hellebuyck at 2:49 of the third period.

Byfuglien made it 4-3 with a blast that went over Niemi at 10:14.

Niemi stretched out for a big pad save on Mark Scheifele late in the game to preserve the lead.

Winnipeg pulled Hellebuyck for the extra attacker with just under two minutes left and defenceman Tyler Myers had a shot ring off the crossbar.

The game was Winnipeg's fifth of a six-game homestead (1-4-0), which concludes Friday against Carolina. The Stars travel to Colorado for a game Thursday.

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