DALLAS (AP) -- Mike Modano carried his team through regulation

with a pair of goals, then pulled out his best move in the

shootout.

Modano ended Dallas' first home shootout in the third round,

lifting the Stars to a 5-4 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in

dramatic fashion on Friday night.

In a move Modano practices, he yanked the puck from his forehand

to his backhand and returned to the forehand, pulling Carolina

goalie Martin Gerber out of position. Modano hesitated, then

stuffed the puck between the post and Gerber's right pad.

"That was my plan," Modano said. "I have that move. I go to

the well if I have a chance to go to the goal on that move ...

usually get (the goalie) sliding, stop and hold on a little while

and then put it over."

The Hurricanes claimed Modano's shootout goal should have been

disallowed. They contended that Modano stopped his forward motion

and that the puck didn't cross the goal line. The goal stood

following a video replay.

"We just wanted to make sure that it went in. It didn't look

like it did," Carolina captain Rod Brind'Amour said.

Jussi Jokinen converted on Dallas' second shootout opportunity

after Matt Cullen scored for the Hurricanes.

Stars goalie Johan Hedberg denied Radim Vrbata on the

Hurricanes' first chance in the shootout, and Gerber stopped Sergei

Zubov to finish the first round.

Modano broke a nine-game scoring drought with his two goals, one

in the game's opening minute and the second on the power play.

The Hurricanes trailed 3-1 and 4-2 but rallied with third-period

goals by Cory Stillman and Justin Williams to send the game to

overtime, where Carolina failed to convert on two power-play

chances.

Dallas' penalty killing in overtime gave the Stars a chance to

win.

"It seems like every game, special teams become a factor at

some point," Stars penalty killer Stu Barnes said. "We had a lot

of (penalty killing) late, especially when you get into overtime,

4-on-3, it's a different situation."

Niko Kapanen and Brenden Morrow added goals for Dallas, which

has won 11 of 13.

The Stars gave top goalie Marty Turco the night off, going with

Hedberg, who stopped 16 shots. Hedberg played his fifth game of the

season, getting his first start since Nov. 2 when he lost 6-3 to

the Los Angeles Kings.

Rookies Niklas Nordgren and Andrew Ladd also scored for the

Hurricanes, who opened a five-game, 11-day road trip.

"Take the point and run out of here," Carolina coach Peter

Laviolette said. "We had way too many guys not working. The game

itself was not good by our standards."

Stillman cut Dallas' lead to 4-3 at 7:40 of the third period.

The Hurricanes thought they tied it at 8:56, but an apparent

goal by Ladd was disallowed because Brind'Amour was penalized for

goalie interference after crashing into Hedberg.

Williams got the Hurricanes even at 4 with a power-play

deflection at 14:49.

Modano, who hadn't scored since Nov. 7, got his eighth of the

season 46 seconds in -- poking in the rebound of his own shot.

Nordgren tied it at 1 for Carolina when he beat a screened

Hedberg at 7:41 of the first period, but Kapanen's rebound at 9:12

put Dallas back in front.

Modano scored on the fourth shot of a power-play sequence at

14:47 of the first period, pushing the Stars' lead to 3-1 over the

reeling Hurricanes.

"Horrible start," Brind'Amour said. "I don't know how to

explain it. We're giving up way too many easy goals. You can't do

that and expect to come back every time."

Ladd banked a power-play goal off Stars defenseman Philippe

Boucher at 5:24 of the second period to draw Carolina within 3-2.

Morrow restored the Stars' two-goal edge, converting Jason

Arnott's cross-ice pass at 12:57 of the frame.Game notes
Both teams played their first interconference game. ...

Carolina D Glen Wesley left the game with about 15 minutes left in

regulation after being accidentally hit in the face by the stick of

Dallas RW Bill Guerin as Guerin followed through on a shot. Wesley

skated off without assistance and received stitches to close a cut

on his nose. ... The Stars have at least one power-play goal in 16

straight games, one short of matching the franchise record set

between Oct. 11-Nov. 18, 1986, when the team was in Minnesota. ...

Zubov's assist on Modano's first goal gave him 315 with the Stars,

tying Craig Hartsburg for the most by a defenseman in franchise

history. ... Boucher left the game in the third period with an

upper body injury. ... Dallas is 3-0 in shootouts; Carolina is 2-1.