Dallas – Connor McDavid had the goal of escape that returned the impulse to the Edmonton Oilers, and his captain happily touched the trophy they obtained after concluding another title of the West Conference.
McDavid obtained that great goal in the second period after an previous assistance, Corey Perry, 40, scored again and the Oilers go to their second final of the Stanley Cup consecutive after beating the Dallas Stars 6-3 on Thursday night in game 5 to conclude the West final.
When McDavid accepted the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, he gladly put it on his hands this time.
“It’s quite obvious, I think,” McDavid said about what was different from the end of the west final last year. “Don’t touch it last year, don’t win. Take it this year, I hope we win.”
Edmonton scored in his first two shots, and jumped 3-0 at the first 8:07 on the way to eliminate the stars in the west final for the second consecutive year.
Oilers get another rematch, against Defend the Stanley Florida Cup champion After a series of seven games last June after the Panthers had won the first three games. Game 1 is Wednesday night in Edmonton.
Dallas was inside a goal when Thomas Harley had only one timer blocked by Mattias Ekholm, the defense of the oilers playing for the first time in this postseason. McDavid gathered the long rebound After central ice, he remained ahead of Speedy Roupe Hintz and defeated goalkeeper Casey Desth with 5:32 remaining in the second period.
“That is a type of connor game McDavid and that is just the player who is,” said Perry.
Mattias Janmark, Jeff Skinner, Evander Kane and Kasperi Kapanen also scored for Edmonton, the last one an empty netter in the final seconds. Leon Draisaitl and Jake Walman had two assists.
Jason Robertson scored twice and Hintz had a goal for the stars, who finished his season in the west final for the third consecutive year. Wyatt Johnston and Harley had two assists.
“You have to keep calling the door,” said the stars coach, Pete should. “We pursued all the games in this series and that is a difficult way to play hockey against that team. It was the story of the entire series, but the fourth goal, Connor’s goal … Puck bounces in the neutral zone, he is coming out of the bank, that is not being lost that. The game is over.”
Deih had taken care of the network after the goalkeeper started Jake Oettinger was lying After Janmark’s goal, who did it 2-0 only 7:09 in the game.
Edmonton’s goalkeeper Stuart Skinner had 14 salvages. Destih, who had not played since April 26 in game 1 of the first round against Colorado, stopped 17 of 20 shots.
Perry scored in a power game, assisted by McDavid and Draisaitl, only 2:31 in the game. His seven goals are the most players of 39 years or more in a single postseason, and the 2007 Stanley Cup champion with Anaheim when he was 22 years old now goes to his fifth final in the last six seasons.
That was McDavid’s 100th assistance in 90 playoff games, the second fastest player in the NHL’s history to reach that brand. Wayne Gretzky had 100 assists in his first 70 playoff games, and no other player has reached the brand in less than 125 games.
Robertson scored a minute in the third period to get the stars inside a goal again. Kane then scored in a shot that came out of the skate of Dallas’s defense, that Lindell and went on to demith.
Jeff Skinner, the 33-year-old striker who has played 1,078 regular seasonal games for 15 years with three teams, scored his first professional postseason goal for the 3-0 advantage. His debut at the playoffs was in the first game of the first round against Los Angeles on April 21, but did not play again until Thursday, when the Oilers were not injured to strikers Zach Hyman and Connor Brown.
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