PITTSBURGH — Dallas goaltender Antti Niemi weathered an offensive storm in the first 10 minutes Thursday night. His teammates rewarded him with a big lead, and the Stars rolled from there.

Jason Spezza put Dallas up by three goals with his fifth of the season in the second period, and the Stars beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory.

“I didn’t think we were really good at the start,” Stars defenseman Johnny Oduya said. “(Niemi) made some great saves. Otherwise we could’ve been down two or three goals.”

Oduya and John Klingberg scored their first goals of the season and Mattias Janmark got his third, helping the Stars finish a perfect four-game trip and improve to 6-1-0 overall.

Niemi stopped 33 shots for his third victory of the season and fourth straight against Pittsburgh. Niemi made 37 saves in a 3-0 win against the Penguins two weeks ago in Dallas.

“We knew there would be a big push,” Stars coach Lindy Ruff said. “Our goaltender gave us a couple big ones and we responded with finding a way to score a couple.”

Nick Bonino scored his first goal for Pittsburgh (3-4-0). The Penguins couldn’t extend a three-game win streak.

Evgeni Malkin’s four-game points streak ended, as did his stretch of three straight games with a goal. The Penguins have scored 11 goals in their first seven games. They ended a five-game homestand, their longest this season, and will play six of their next seven on the road.

Marc-Andre Fleury, who started each of the Penguins’ first seven games, made 19 saves.

“I thought we came out with a lot of intensity,” Penguins’ coach Mike Johnston said. “We were generating a lot of momentum with shots, but after that I thought we tried to get too cute with the puck and we passed up shots.”

Pascal Dupuis returned to the lineup for Pittsburgh and played his first regular-season game in nearly a year after recovering from a torn ACL and separate bouts with blood clots.