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Oilers-Stars Game 3 takeaways, early look at Game 4

While fans in Edmonton and Dallas are always singing about how they have friends in low places, only one of them has the high ground in the Western Conference finals. And that's the Oilers after their 6-1 win Sunday in Game 3 to take a 2-1 series lead.

With the series knotted 1-1 entering the contest, the objective for Game 3 was to gain a firm grasp of the conference finals, and the Oilers did just that by having five players with multipoint performances. As for the Stars, losing Game 3 left them trailing a series for just the second time this postseason, with the only other such occurrence coming after Game 1 against the Colorado Avalanche in the quarterfinal round.