Leon Draisaitl and Corey Perry had a goal of power and assistance when the Edmonton Oilers took a 3-1 advantage in the final series of the West Conference with a 4-1 victory over the Dallas stars on Tuesday.
Kasperi Kapanen and Adam Henrique added goals from empty networks, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid had two assists for the oilers who have fought and won three consecutive games after a collapse of the third period cost them the opening game in Dallas.
The oilers now have 9-0 in the 4S game in their last three playoff races.
Stuart Skinner continued to shine on the Edmonton Network, making 28 salctions to register the victory.
Jason Robertson responded by the stars, which are in danger of being eliminated in the west final by the Oilers for the second consecutive year.
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Jake Oettinger registered 29 stops while taking the defeat in the Dallas network, falling to 5-11 in his career in the final competitions of West.
After surviving a burst of Dallas opportunities to start the game, the oilers began the score in the power game with 8:37 to play in the opening period while Nugent-Hopkins maintained his hot game in the series, feeding him with Draisaitl that beat Oettinger with a single angle of a bad angle for his seventh place.
Dallas has been over 10-0 in the first period on the road in this year’s playoffs.
However, there was a reason for concern for Edmonton in the first painting, since striker Zach Hyman received an open ice coup from Mason Marchment and left the game with an injury at the top of the body and did not return.
The stars tied the game 1-1 seven minutes in the second period in a good play of power game passes when Robertson chose the upper corner in Skinner for his second goal from the playoffs in so many games.
Edmonton recovered leadership in another power play since Nugent-Hopkins made a perfect pass for Perry for an easy tap for his sixth, which makes him the fifth player of 40 years or more to score in a conference final.
It was the fourth consecutive multiple performance of Nugent-Hopkins, becoming the first player in 35 years to achieve that feat in a final of the conference, and the first oiler to have nine or more points in the first four games of a conference final from Wayne Gretzky 37 years ago.
The Oilers controlled the third and were able to add insurance with 2:27 to play with an empty network of Kapanen. Henrique then added another empty network with remaining 50 seconds.
The Star striker Roupe Hintz returned to the lineup after missing a game after having to be helped to ice at the end of the third period of game 2 when he was cut at the top of the left foot by the defense of the oilers, Darnell Nurse.
The striker Viktor Arvidsson took the place of Connor Brown for Edmonton after Brown left game 3 after receiving a blow from the defense of the stars Alexander Petrovic. Calvin Pickard, who looks at a 6-0 record in the playoffs, returned from an injury to Skinner’s backing.
Game 5 takes place on Thursday in Dallas.
