In brief: Tyler Seguin’s late goal lifts Stars past Penguins in NHL

NHL: Tyler Seguin scored a power-play goal with 2.9 seconds remaining to give the Dallas Stars a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins Thursday night in Pittsburgh.

Seguin’s goal capped a furious comeback as Dallas scored twice in the final 2:57 to win its second straight and snap a six-game losing streak in Pittsburgh. Jamie Benn and Antoine Roussel also scored for the Stars, who won in Pittsburgh for the first time since Dec. 23, 2000.

Sidney Crosby had his fourth goal of the season and Chris Kunitz also scored – both on power plays in the first 10 minutes of the game – for the Penguins.

Penguins forward Pascal Dupuis left the game on a stretcher in the second period.

• Canadiens surge past Bruins in home opener: Brendan Gallagher and P.A. Parenteau each had two goals and the Montreal Canadiens won their home opener, 6-4 over the visiting Boston Bruins.

Max Pacioretty had a goal and two assists, while Jiri Sekac got his first NHL goal for Montreal.

Zdeno Chara, Carl Soderberg, Loui Eriksson and Simon Gagne, with his first as a Bruin, scored for Boston.

Murray, Ferrer advance in Vienna

Tennis: Andy Murray reached the quarterfinals of the Erste Bank Open after a hard-fought 6-4, 6-4 win over Vasek Pospisil in Vienna.

The second-seeded Murray, who had a bye in the first round, dropped serve while leading 3-2 in the second set but held off five more break chances for Pospisil. The Canadian had 27 aces in his first-round win over Daniel Brands but just three against Murray.

“It was a tricky match to start with. He serves well and is a quick mover,” Murray said. “It was hard. It was the first time I played indoors since Rotterdam, which was seven, eight months ago. And it’s always different to play indoors. … The match could’ve definitely been a lot closer.”

Murray next plays Jan-Lennard Struff, who won the last seven points in the third-set tiebreaker to beat Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6 (6), 2-6, 7-6 (3).

David Ferrer advanced to his 15th quarterfinal of the season after defeating Tobias Kamke 7-5, 6-1. The fifth-ranked Ferrer, the top seed, avoided service breaks and converted his second match point with a forehand winner.

“It was tough in the first set but in the second I played better, more solid, more consistent,” said Ferrer, who plays No. 6 Ivo Karlovic of Croatia in the quarterfinals.

• Top-seeded Raonic eliminated at Kremlin Cup: Top-seeded Milos Raonic was eliminated in his first match at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, losing 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to Lithuanian qualifier Ricardas Berankis.

Raonic had a bye into the second round, and the loss puts him in danger of failing to qualify for next month’s ATP tour finals in London. Playing with his right arm in strapping, Raonic struggled with his usually powerful and accurate serve, landing only 59 percent of first serves.

For the 116th-ranked Berankis, it was his first career win against a top-10 player. His reward is a quarterfinal against Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut, seeded fifth.

McDowell defeated in World Match Play

Golf: Defending champion Graeme McDowell’s comeback fell short, while Henrik Stenson rallied from three holes down with success at the World Match Play Championship in Ash, England.

McDowell fell to Mikko Ilonen of Finland 2 and 1 in their second pool match.

Ilonen raced to 4 up after 10 holes before McDowell fought back with birdies on 11, 13 and 15 to be 1 down. But Ilonen, the Irish Open champion, birdied the 17th to seal the win.

Stenson, the top seed in the 16-man event, produced a startling finish of eagle-birdie-birdie to overcome Francesco Molinari of Italy 2 and 1.

Molinari carded 7 under but Stenson went 8 under over the last nine holes.

• Stewart Cink, Martin Laird share Las Vegas lead: Stewart Cink birdied seven of the final 11 holes for a 7-under 64 and a share of the first-round lead with Martin Laird in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

Cink had a bogey-free round at TPC Summerlin in his first start since dropping out of the FedEx Cup playoffs after the second event.

He won the last of his six PGA Tour titles in the 2009 British Open.

Laird also had a bogey-free round. He played the front nine in 5-under 30 and added birdies on Nos. 15 and 18, holing a 50-foot putt on the last. The Scot won the 2009 event and lost in a playoff in 2010 when Jonathan Byrd made a hole-in-one on the fourth extra hole.

Spokane’s Alex Prugh shot an even-par 71 and is tied for 79th.

• Kang takes first-round lead in LPGA event at Incheon: Haeji Kang shot a 5-under 67 to take a two-stroke lead over five players, including three fellow South Koreans, after the first round of the LPGA’s KEB-Hanabank Championship in Incheon, South Korea.

Lee Il-hee and defending champion Amy Yang shot 69s along with another South Korean, Mirim Lee. Australian Minjee Lee and Catriona Matthew of Scotland were also tied for second on the Ocean Course at the Sky72 Golf Club.

Second-ranked Inbee Park, who could move to No. 1 with a win in the absence of top-ranked Stacy Lewis of the United States, was at 71.

Williams wins bobsled push title

Bobsled: Olympic silver medalist Lauryn Williams was one of three winners at the U.S. national bobsled push championships at Lake Placid, New York, prevailing in the women’s brakeman competition.

Katie Eberling won the women’s pilot competition and Olympic veteran Nick Cunningham took the men’s pilot title.

Williams finished two starts on the push track at Lake Placid in 9.56 seconds, topping Lauren Gibbs and Cherrelle Garrett. They tied for second at 9.72.

Eberling finished her two pushes in 8.41, edging Olympic bronze medalist Jamie Greubel Poser (8.47) for the women’s pilot title. Maureen Ajoku was third in 8.72.

Cunningham finished in 7.93, beating Codie Bascue (8.00) and Andrew Blaser (8.05). Olympic medalist Steve Holcomb was fourth and 2010 Olympian John Napier was fifth in his first formal event since retirement.