EDMONTON — Jason Robertson completed his first-career playoff hat trick midway through the third period as the Dallas Stars defeated the Edmonton Oilers 5-3 on Monday to take a 2-1 lead in the NHL's Western Conference final.
EDMONTON — Jason Robertson completed his first-career playoff hat trick midway through the third period as the Dallas Stars defeated the Edmonton Oilers 5-3 on Monday to take a 2-1 lead in the NHL's Western Conference final.
Dallas, which re-established home-ice advantage with the victory and owned the league's best regular-season road record, is now 6-1 in the playoffs away from American Airlines Center.Henrique returned to the lineup after sitting out seven of Edmonton's last eight games with a suspected ankle injury. Hintz, the Stars' No. 1 centre, was also back following a four-game absence because of an upper-body injury.
Edmonton pulled the goaltender late looking to force overtime, but Heiskanen iced it into an empty net with 1:52 left in regulation.McDavid wheeled out of the corner and fired a shot that went in off Hyman just 2:02 into the game as he battled with Stars defenceman Ryan Suter for position in front for his NHL-leading 13th goal of the playoffs.
Johnston then made it 3-2 just 63 seconds later to completed the three-goal barrage in 3:33 with his eighth in front of a stunned crowd.
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