Dallas – Dallas (AP) – Mikko Rantanen It has been four games in a row without scoring, which really is not as bad as it seems for the stars of Dallas.
That means they are beginning to get more points from other players. Dallas won three of those games, including the second round of Winnipeg in game 6, then the starter in the Final rematch of the West Conference with Edmonton After a franchise, the playoffs record five goals in the third period. Three of them appeared in power plays.
“Everyone talked about our lack of secondary score. The last round … None of our boys was going to have large numbers in the Winnipeg series,” said coach Pete I owe, noting that the jets were the best defensive team in the league. “I really felt sure that they were going to be launched because even in that Winnipeg series, particularly late of that series, game 6, I began to see some real signs of creating some real opportunities … signs that we were going to get some production.”
The stars certainly had some opportunities and production at the end of the 6-3 Victoria About Edmonton in game 1 on Wednesday night. They have the opportunity on Friday night to take a 2-0 advantage for the first time in 12 playoff series since 2020.
Dallas exceeded a multigure deficit in the third period and won in regulation for the second time this postseason, becoming the first NHL team to do so in the same postseason. The other late return of the stars was in the first round against Colorado, when Rantanen had a hat trick as part of a third period of four points in game 7 against his former team.
Matt Duchene finally got her first goal from these playoffs. His tiebreaker against the oilers was the third consecutive goal of the power game in the first six minutes of the third period for Dallas, which was 0 for 14 with an advantage of a man In a loss of the six games series last year.
That Lindell also got his first goal. Miro Heiskanen did so, although the outstanding defender played only for the fourth time since January 28. The last 32 regular seasonal games and the first 10 in the playoffs were lost due to left knee surgery.
“Really good for 40 (minutes) and really bad by 20. Ultimately, it was reduced,” said Edmonton, Connor McDavid on Thursday. “Where he escaped from us, obviously (was) death. An advantage of two goals in the third, we took a couple of penalties and we have to find a way of killing.”
While the Oilers certainly never anticipated keeping Dallas completely off the board with an advantage of a man in another long series, they surely did not expect to give up three in such a fast order.
“The more time defends, the longer you have in a position to take penalties,” said the oilers coach Kris Knoblauch. “When they push, you are able to defend, and you are becoming vulnerable to having to take a stick infraction or any kind of infraction … They are a good team 5 against 5, exceptionally well in the power game. We have to make adjustments to one, improve the death of penalty, but they also give them less opportunities.”
Rantanen is still the leader of the NHL in this postseason with his nine goals and 20 points, even with only two assists in the last four games.
That followed a remarkable career when he had a part in a NHL-Playoff Registration 13 consecutive goals For a team. He had consecutive games with four -point periods against Colorado, his former team, then he had another three -goal game in the first game of the second round against the jets.
Leon Draisaitl (six goals) and Connor McDavid (three goals), teammates of 100 points in the regular season, both have 19 points in the playoffs. Draisaitl had a goal and two assists in game 1 against the stars, while McDavid had two assists.
Dallas has won the consecutive 1S game after an inexplicable section of losing eight consecutive serial openers since 2022.
Now the stars can take a 2-0 advantage in the series for the first time since the second round of the Playoffs 2020, when they beat in Colorado in six games and reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the bubble in Canada during that season impacted by the pandemic.
The last time the stars won their first two games at home in a playoff series were 2016 in the first round against Minnesota.
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