Stars take Pacific Division lead

Mike Ribeiro and Brenden Morrow each had a goal and an assist, and the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 4-2 Saturday.

Dallas, which has a two-point lead over the Sharks for first place in the Pacific Division, has won five straight games in San Jose dating to Dec. 21, 2006.

Antti Miettinen put the Stars ahead for good with 3:04 left in the second period with a slapshot from the blue line. Ribeiro scored his 16th of the season to tie it 2-all six minutes earlier when Dallas was on a 5-on-3 power-play.

San Jose had taken a 2-1 lead just 45 seconds before Ribeiro scored. Patrick Rissmiller took a pass from Mike Grier and caught Turco going the other way.

The Sharks opened the scoring with 12:06 left in the first period when Devin Setoguchi tapped a backhander past Turco. It was Setoguchi's eighth goal of the season. The power-play goal came just nine seconds after Morrow elbowed Doug Murray. It was the ninth straight game San Jose has scored first.

Morrow tied it at 1 with 15:08 left in the second, shoveling the puck past Nabokov. Morrow and Patrick Marleau were fighting for the puck when it was flipped over the net and landed in front of Nabokov. As a crowd of players gathered in front of the net, Morrow pushed the puck in for his 12th goal of the season.

Steve Ott added an empty net goal to make it 4-2.