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DALLAS - Patrick Sharp scored yet another goal against the Dallas Stars. The Chicago forward figured it made a difference only because of goalie Corey Crawford.Sharp scored the tying goal in the third period, Patrick Kane had the only goal in the shootout and the Blackhawks beat Dallas 3-2 Thursday night.Kane beat Kari Lehtonen high on the glove side with Chicagos second attempt in the shootout, and Crawford stopped Dallas tries from Tyler Seguin and newcomers Jason Spezza and Ales Hemsky after bailing out the sluggish Blackhawks for the first two periods.All night long he was great, so we can be happy getting out of here with a win, said Sharp, who had 10 points in five games a€” including six goals a€” against the Stars last season. But if it wasnt for Corey, itd be a different situation.Crawford stopped 32 of 34 shots for the Blackhawks in their first meaningful game since losing Game 7 of the Western Conference finals to the Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings last June. They won their seventh straight in Dallas.We have to call the cops. We stole two points tonight, Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. Certainly call that a goalie win.The Stars opened on the same ice where last season ended in a first-round playoff series against Anaheim after they broke a five-year post-season drought.Dallas had turned away several good scoring chances for the high-scoring duo of Kane and Jonathan Toews before Sharp sent a shot from the circle past Lehtonen 11:10 into the third.The Stars forced overtime by killing Jordie Benns delay-of-game penalty in the final 2 minutes of regulation. Vernon Fiddler was stopped by Crawford on a good short-handed chance early in the penalty, and the two got tangled up while play continued at the other end. The Blackhawks didnt get a great scoring chance in what amounted to a 5-on-3 opportunity.I do feel good, Stars coach Lindy Ruff said. We had questions on our defence, and our defence was real good. Thats going to be a fun game to look back at.The Stars outshot Chicago 24-11 through two periods before the Blackhawks controlled the pace in the third period and overtime.Chicago had only one shot in the extra period but had the puck in the Dallas end throughout. Kane just missed on a spinning attempt and later sent the puck through an empty crease after some nifty stick-handling.It definitely was a pretty slow start for us, Crawford said. We gained our timing as the game went on and gained our confidence and that speed and puck possession game as we went further into the game. You could see that.Spezza and Hemsky assisted on a tying goal by Trevor Daley in their Dallas debuts after playing part of last season together in Ottawa. Spezza was acquired in a trade just before Hemsky signed a free-agent deal with the Stars.The Stars scored again for a 2-1 lead in the second when Cody Eakin slipped a shot from just above the crease past Crawford.The 23-year-old Eakin got the first opening-night point of his career less than two weeks after ending a contract holdout by signing a two-year deal worth an average of $1.9 million per season.If we work that hard during a game, were going to win a lot of them, Eakin said. The shootout didnt go our way but for the most part we skated well and worked really hard and played our systems well.NOTES: The Stars lost for the first time in three season openers against the Blackhawks. They had previously won at home in Dallas and when the franchise was still in Minnesota. ... Stars D Alex Goligoski played his 400th career game. ... The Blackhawks won their third straight season opener after going winless in the previous three. ... 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Harvick, who is fourth in points, was fastest in the early practice before turning a lap of 187.526 mph in qualifying. Stenhouse was next at 187.480, and Johnson was third at 187.162. Its just the sixth time in 460 races that Harvick has led the field to the green flag, and ends a drought of 254 races without a pole. Its also the first pole for Richard Childress Racing since Clint Bowyer sat on the front in September 2007, also at New Hampshire. "Its never been really something that honestly we put a lot of effort into to try to figure out what we needed to do," Harvick said. "Weve always been able to work by not qualifying well and winning races. Its just kind of been that way." It certainly helps to start from the front, though, especially this week at Kansas. The track underwent a repave last year and, combined with the new "multi-zone" tread that Goodyear has brought this weekend, track position figures to be at a premium. Drivers are hopeful of two- and three-lane racing, but Stenhouse said that it will be difficult to pass. "I think track position is going to be very important,&quuot; he said.dddddddddddd "We were fast here last time, led some laps and got caught by a caution on pit road." Stenhouse was surprised that itd been so long since Harvick sat on the pole. After all, the Sprint Cup rookie was still racing on dirt the last time it happened. "Thats a long time. Hopefully, we dont go that long without a pole," Stenhouse said. "And I really wish he still didnt have a pole so we could have one." Harvick, Stenhouse and Johnson, who is second behind Matt Kenseth in points, were best able to negotiate a brutal crosswind going into Turn 3 that spoiled several promising runs. "I felt like the lap I ran was a huge pickup and pretty dang solid," Johnson said, "and then Ricky got me and Kevin had a little more left. Solid effort. The conditions were tough to get right with the wind blowing as hard as it is." The weather is expected to change again for the weekend. A front thats coming through the area on Friday night is expected to send temperatures that reached into the 80s for qualifying into the 60s for the weekend, likely forcing everybody to retool their setups on Saturday. That could bode well for guys who will start father back in the field. Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano rounded out the top five. Dale Earnhardt Jr. will start sixth, followed by Kenseth, Paul Menard, Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin. Kyle Busch, who is 12 points back of Kenseth in third, will start 18th. Chase contenders Jeff Gordon (14th), Ryan Newman (17th) and Greg Biffle (26th) also struggled with qualifying. "Theres certainly room for improvement," said Gordon, who is tied with Harvick and 39 points behind Kenseth in the standings. "Im just happy that we picked up from where we were in practice. 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