Jason Robertson on Monday completed his first-career playoff hat-trick midway through the third period as the Dallas Stars defeated the Edmonton Oilers 5-3 to take a 2-1 lead in the NHL Western Conference Finals.
Wyatt Johnston and Miro Heiskanen, into the empty net, had the other goal for Dallas. Jake Oettinger made 26 saves. Roope Hintz, Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn had two assists each.
“You want to help the team win, you want to score goals,” said Robertson, who had not found the back of the net since Game 6 of the first round. “Scoring one gives you confidence ... like a domino effect.”
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Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist to give him 100 career playoff points, while Zach Hyman and Adam Henrique scored for Edmonton, who got 17 stops from Stuart Skinner.
“A real good start,” McDavid said. “I’m not sure where those 10, 15 minutes come from, but it’s as bad as it’s been throughout the playoffs.”
Dallas, who re-established home-ice advantage with the victory and owned the league’s best regular-season road record, are now 6-1 in the playoffs away from the American Airlines Center.
The Stars saw the return of Hintz, who had not dressed since sustaining an upper-body injury in Game 4 of the second round against the Colorado Avalanche.
“We gutted it out while [Hintz] was out of the lineup,” Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said. “It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t as pretty as it was tonight when he was out, but we still found ways. Guys still found ways to contribute without a key player. That’s what I’m most proud of. It was great that he was back tonight, but I’m really proud of how we handled his absence.”
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