Trailing 1-0 in the Western Conference Finals after an overtime loss in Game 1, Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 28 shots, leading the Stars to a 3-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 2 Saturday night at American Airlines Arena.
Marchment broke a tie at 3:41 of the third period when he deflected a shot that went through the legs of defenseman, whose 1,444 career regular-season games without a Stanley Cup title are the most among active players, shot the puck from against the board just inside the blue line that Marchment deflected.
"We've got to play like it's Game 7. We're so close, so it's just got to be a Game 7 mentality for the rest of this ride here," Marchment said.'s shot with about 3½ minutes left, and also gathered in the Edmonton defenseman's long shot about a half-minute after that.had Edmonton's goal. Skinner, who had won the previous three games since being sitting two games in the last round, stopped 22 shots.
Game 3 is Monday night in Edmonton, where the Stars won 4-3 in their only trip there this season. That was Nov. 2 during the Oilers' 3-9-1 start that led to Jay Woodcroft getting fired as coach and replaced by Kris Knoblauch.This was the seventh consecutive time the Stars went into Game 2 of a best-of-seven playoff series coming off a loss, including all three this postseason.
After going 0-for-5 on the power play in the series opener, including a double-minor penalty in the opening seconds of the first overtime that gave them four minutes with a man advantage, the Stars failed to score on their only power play in Game 2. That extended Edmonton's streak to 20 penalties killed over six-plus games, since giving up a power-play goal in Game 3 of its second-round series against Vancouver.
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