Stuart Skinner and the Edmonton Oilers rebounded and returned home to the Western Conference final.
Skinner made 25 stops for his third bleaching of the playoffs, two nights after abandoning five goals, Connor Brown scored after being touched in the mouth with a skate and the Oilers beat the Dallas 3-0 stars in match 2 Friday evening.
“We have shown it for many years now, just the perseverance of our team, of maturity, just the way we react,” said Skinner. “As I said at the start of the playoffs, it’s a coaster rollerblading. There are a lot of ups, a lot of downs. Sometimes the score does not always tell everyone how the game went.”
These oilers overcome a 0-2 deficit in their first round series against the Kings of Los Angeles who cost Skinner his starting work before Calvin Pickard was injured.
And then there was Brown, who was bleeding after being struck in the toe of the skate of Mikael Granlund when the stars fell by him near the boards at the start of the second period.
Brown put the Oilers at the top 3-0 with 4:37 to do in the second period, only 1:13 AFTER The first goal of the Brett Kulak defender in 36 games since February 27.
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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a power game goal in the first period for the Oilers, who return home for match 3 on Sunday.
“One thing I noticed was the amount of battles we won and the quantity of blocked shots,” said Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch. “It’s just determination and to know how important the game was this evening that we had to go back with a victory.”
Skinner has four career whitening. He closed the second round with consecutive whitening against Vegas before giving up five goals on 27 shots in the 6-3 losses To open the series against the stars.
Jake Oettinger de Dallas stopped 22 shots.
Star Roope Hintz left the ice Without putting weight on his left leg after Edmonton’s defender Darnell, the nurse cut him over his left skate at the start of the third. Hintz went down to the ice in front of Edmonton’s net and immediately reached his foot. The nurse received a minor penalty for hitting after the officials examined a major penalty.
Dallas coach Pete Deboer said that he had not updated the injury to Hintz, but certainly questioned the decision of the officials.
“Does anyone in this room think that if Connor McDavid is swept away like that, it is not a major of five minutes?” Replied when he was asked about the room.
Nugent-Hopkins, who also had the main help on the goal of Brown, put the oilers in mind to stay at 5:51 in the match when he had a shot from Evan Bouchard from the top of the right circle which flickering towards the net after leaving the stick of Hintz. Edmonton had the advantage of man after a boarding penalty against Granlund.
It was the second consecutive match that Nugent-Hopkins had a power game goal. He had two in a victory for match 4 last year When the Oilers beat Dallas in six games in the West final.
Leon Draisaitl had the secondary assistance on this goal, and Connor McDavid had a help on the goal of the Kulak when his initial shot was blocked by Mikko Rantanen before recovering it. This pushed Draisaitl and McDavid, scorers of 100 points in the regular season, at 20 points in these playoffs – corresponding to Rantanen for the High in the NHL.
It is the fourth qualifying series of 20 consecutive points for McDavid, corresponding to the longest period in the history of the NHL with Sergei Fedorov (1995-1998), Bryan Trottier (1980-1983) and Mike Bossy (1980-1983). Draisaitl reached the 20 -point brand for the second consecutive year.
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