Goltender Stuart Skinner on Friday posted his third shutout of the playoffs to return to Admonton Oilrs for a 3–0 win over Dallas stars and even the final series of their Western Conference.
Ryan Nugant-Hopkins scored a goal and a assistance to lead an olers, who tied the best chain in 1–1 to seven series. Brett Kulak and Connor Brown also scored, while Ivan Bouchord received a pair of assistance.
Skinner made 25 saves to earn the playoff shutouts of his fourth career, his largest in the third period when ESA Lindel thought he had an open net.
Goalkeeper Jake Otner stopped 22 shots for stars, which were vacated for the fourth time in this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs.
The game of the series will be 3 Sunday afternoon in Edmonton.
After failing to score a road power-play goal in the first two rounds, the oileers opened scoring with another man-advent marker in several outings when the olers rearred the point shot of the bouchard at the 5:51 mark. Leon Drassital received the second assistance, 14th assistance of the playoffs.
Kulak doubled the edge of Edmonton at 15:23 of the second period. Second after the Skinner denied a golden opportunity, Kulak stepped from his point position for a feed and changed his second chance for his first goal of the playoffs.
With his aid on the target, Conner McDwid became the fourth player in NHL history, collecting 20 or more points in four consecutive playoff runs, joining Sergei Fedorov of Detroit Red Wings and Sergei Fedorov and New York Islanders great Mike Bosey and Brian Trotier.
Brown made it a three-goal lead after 73 seconds and went to the net and rednamed the Nagent-Hopkins shot.
The Dallas Forward Rope Hintz was required to help in the dressing room in the third period after receiving the end of a slash near the ankle near the darnell nurse, for which he was assessed a two -minute fine. Hintz did not return.
Skinner tied the franchise record for a shutout in a playoff year, equaling the mark set by Curtis Joseph in 1998.
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