DALLAS -- Right winger Patrick Sharp made his first game against his former team, the Chicago Blackhawks, quite memorable with a goal and an assist and goaltender Antti Niemi stopped all 20 shots he faced to earn his 35th career shutout in a 4-0 Dallas Stars win at American Airlines Center on Tuesday.

Sharp, acquired by Dallas in a trade last summer after spending 10 seasons in Chicago, scored his 12th goal of the season 11 seconds into the third period to add an insurance marker to a 1-0 lead. Center Colton Sceviour then scored at 2:57 of the third, making it 3-0.

Center Jason Spezza opened the scoring in the second period and center Mattias Janmark closed it out in the third, making it 4-0 Dallas (26-7-2), which won its third straight.

It was Niemi's third shutout of the season.

Defenseman Jason Demers had two assists for Dallas.

Spezza scored a power-play goal 9:12 into the second to make it 1-0. Spezza and Sharp played a nice game of give-and-go with Sharp passing it back to Spezza from the Chicago blue line. Spezza rushed up the right side of the ice and slipped a wrist shot past the short side of Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford for his 13th goal of the season. Dallas had 15 seconds remaining on the power play, which resulted from a holding call on Blackhawks center Artemi Panarin at 7:27.

Less than three minutes after Sharp's goal, Sceviour ended a 16-game goalless drought by redirecting a wrist shot by defenseman Jordie Benn 2:57 into the third period.

Janmark then made it 4-0 with his eighth goal of the season with 5:24 remaining, scoring when a wrist shot from the right circle deflected in off the left skate of Blackhawks defenseman Michal Rozsival.

Crawford stopped 28 shots for Chicago, which was shut out for the third time this season.

NOTES: Blackhawks RW Marian Hossa (upper body), C Marcus Kruger (wrist) and D David Rundblad were scratched. ... Stars LW Travis Moen, D Patrik Nemeth and D Jamie Oleksiak were scratched. ... Blackhawks LW Ryan Garbutt, who spent four seasons with the Stars (2011-15), played his first game in Dallas since being traded to Chicago this past summer. ... Stars RW Patrick Sharp won three Stanley Cups (2010, 2013 and 2015) during his 10-year run with the Blackhawks ... Former Blackhawks D Johnny Oduya, who Dallas signed as a free agent, won two cups (2013, 2015) in Chicago. ... Blackhawks G Corey Crawford started his seventh consecutive game.