The Dallas Stars continued their season rally with a 5-4 overtime win over the Oilers in Edmonton on Saturday.
It wasn’t easy, the Stars needed two strikes in the third period before forcing the game to extra time.
Jamie Benn completed the rally with his goal in the extra session with just over a minute gone in the frame.
“It’s nice to get that one, it’s nice to get the win and it was a great battle back by our team,” Benn said. “There is never any quit in our team. Obviously we don’t want to give up four every night. With those two kids over there (Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid), they’re going to score, they’re great players you have to tip your hat to them. We found a way to get five and it was a great battle back to our team.”
Tyler Seguin and Blake Comeau struck in the third period to tie the game at 4-4.
Anton Khudobin made 18 saves in the win.
“I really liked our first period,” Dallas head coach Jim Montgomery said. “Our second period we just turned the puck over too much, we didn’t get pucks to the goal line, we were trying to be cute and fed their transition and took too many penalties. The third period, we got pucks in, we went to work on the forecheck, we started skating, finishing and we drew two or three power plays.”
Jujhar Khaira scored twice, and Draisaitl and Ethan Bear added single markers for the Oilers.
“Obviously up 4-2 in your own building, going into the third, you have to find a way to get two points,” McDavid said. “We let that slip by. They did a good job to come back in the third and they found a way to get two (points). We were on our heels and we let them take the game to us. They forechecked hard, we didn’t get pucks out.”
Jason Dickinson and Miro Heiskanen also scored for Dallas.
“We made some mistakes,” Edmonton head coach Dave Tippett said. “In the second period we had the game going our way and we had a string of hope passes, six or seven, that turned some momentum their way. And in the third period, we’d gone the whole game without taking a penalty and that doesn’t last through the third period, you knew that wasn’t going to happen, and we got on our heels and couldn’t get it back.”
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Mikko Koskinen made 31 saves in the loss.
“By the end there, we started chasing the puck instead of sticking to our game plan,” Khaira said. “I thought in the first two periods we played well. They’re a good team over there, it’s a lesson for us to learn.”
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