DALLAS STARS GOALTENDER Ben Bishop (30) defends the coal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Rangers in Dallas on Tuesday.

DALLAS (AP) — Ben Bishop hasn’t had a lot of room for error when he shuts out opponents this season.

Bishop made 28 saves for his 28th career shutout, John Klingberg scored a second-period goal and the Dallas Stars beat the New York Rangers 1-0 Tuesday.

Dallas won its third straight and moved one point ahead of Minnesota in the race for the first wild card in the Western Conference.

Three of Bishop’s four shutouts this season have been by a 1-0 score. His other shutout was a less-stressful 2-0 win.

“Didn’t know that. Maybe we should start scoring less goals,” Bishop joked. “That’s just the way it’s worked out.”

Bishop also entered the third period with a 1-0 lead in a win Saturday at St. Louis.

“Our goalies have been instrumental throughout the whole process,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. “I don’t think (Bishop) had as hard a night as he had on others, but he managed the traffic in front of him really well.”

Klingberg provided the offense 1:16 into the second period. He took a cross-ice pass from Miro Heiskanen at the blue line, skated to the top of the right circle and sent a wrist shot into the net off the left post.

“Post in, that’s nice because it’s usually post out,” Klingberg said. “Miro made a great play. I talked to him. I was open. I got the puck on my tape. I saw someone screened the goalie really good.”

Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev said he saw the shot coming.

“But I didn’t see how it went in. There was a lot of traffic in front of me, so I tried to just move into the direction the puck was going and block it.”

Georgiev had 31 saves for New York, which hasn’t won in five games.

The game ended two seconds after a scrum in front of Bishop that resulted in 24 minutes in penalties, 20 against the Rangers. Ryan Strome had a cross-checking penalty and a game misconduct.

“Strome absolutely crushed (the Stars’ Jason Dickinson) into me.” Bishop said. “It’s one of those where we don’t play them the rest of this year, but we’ll remember it next year.”