For 30-40 minutes tonight, the Dallas Stars looked like the better team. They for sure were right out of the gate, absolutely lighting up Stuart Skinner and the Edmonton Oilers with shot attempts, shots on goal, offensive zone time, you name it.
Well, unless you’re naming goals, because therein lies the problem: the Stars, once again, were unable to score against the Oilers, in what has been a very, very annoying broken record for the past two postseasons. Rather than entering the first intermission up by a bajillion goals, they were instead down by one, having given up a goal to Leon Draisaitl as soon as the Oilers went on the power play.