The Edmonton Oilers are one victory from the Stanley Cup final.
replied for Dallas, which has lost two in a row and now faces elimination after leading the best-of-seven series 2-1.The Oilers, who last made the final in 2006 and last hoisted hockey's holy grail in 1990, can close things out Sunday in Edmonton. Game 7, if necessary, would be Tuesday back in Dallas.
The winner of Game 5 when a best-of-seven matchup is tied 2-2 has gone on to win 78.8 per cent of the time , including 50-15 when the matchup is immediately before the final. Nugent-Hopkins scored the first power-play goal of the series at 14:09 of the opening period. Bouchard's one-timer was blocked by Tanev, but the puck popped right to the longest-serving Oilers player at the side of the net for him to swat home his fifth of the post-season.
Dallas got a chance on the man advantage when Edmonton was caught with too many men on the ice, but the visitors' stout penalty kill doused a 24th straight infraction dating back to Game 4 of the second round against thewent to the Oilers locker room earlier in the period favouring his right shoulder after a hard check on fellow 39-year-old forwardThe Oilers went up by three 4:03 later when Broberg — inserted into the lineup in Game 4 — blasted his first through a crowd on Oettinger.
Dallas got a bit of life after finally killing of an Edmonton man advantage, but the visitors fended off a 25th straight short-handed opportunity late in the period thanks to a couple good Skinner stops on Seguin and Johnston.in the third to keep the Stars off the scoreboard before Johnston broke the shutout bid with his 10th on a deflection at 14:09, but Edmonton would hold onto and will head home up 3-2.Pavelski became the 25th player in NHL history to dress for 200 post-season games.
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