The Dallas Stars (7-3-3) came back from a 3-1 deficit to defeat the Edmonton Oilers (6-5-4) Tuesday evening 4-3 in a shootout at American Airlines Center.
Vasily Podkolzin, Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid scored for the Oilers. Stuart Skinner made 24 saves.
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For the Stars, Mikko Rantanen and Miro Heiskanen scored in regulation, while Jason Robertson and Wyatt Johnston scored in the shootout. Casey DeSmith made 23 saves.
Summary of the game
The Stars were the better team for the first three minutes of the game, but it was the Oilers who broke through first. Jack Roslovic threw a one-handed pass across the crease while fending off a defender, and Podkolzin one-timed the puck past DeSmith.
The Oilers doubled the lead at 7:04 of the first period. Draisaitl knocked in a power-play goal from a tight angle on the goal line in the right corner of the offensive zone.
Rantanen scored his 300th NHL goal at 9:10 of the second period to put the Stars on the board. After Jason Robertson was robbed by Skinner, Wyatt Johnston collected the rebound and tipped the puck off the right post. Rantanen cleared the loose puck from his knees and put it past an outstretched Skinner to cut the lead to 2-1.
McDavid restored the Oilers’ two-goal lead at 7:51 of the third, with a snap that beat DeSmith’s blocker after taking a cross-ice pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
At 8:37, Johnston sent a cross-ice pass to Rantanen in the offensive zone, who collected the pass in his skates and ripped a shot above Skinner’s blocker for his second of the night.
The Stars tied the game less than four minutes later after a Johnston shot deflected off the endboards off an Edmonton defender and went straight to the stick of Heiskanen, who fired a shot into the wide-open net.
The Oilers had some solid chances early in overtime, but the final half of overtime was dominated by Dallas. Skinner stood tall when called upon to send the game to a shootout.
In the shootout, Robertson and Johnston scored for the Stars, DeSmith turned away McDavid and Nugent-Hopkins, and the Stars finished the night with a 4-3 win.
The Stars outscored the Oilers 27-26 and went 1-for-4 on the power play. The Oilers went 1-for-3 with the man advantage.
Next
The Stars are back in action Thursday, when they host the Anaheim Ducks. The Oilers don’t play until Saturday, when they host the Colorado Avalanche.
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