Duchene scores twice as Dallas Stars beat Edmonton Oilers 4-1

Matt Duchene scored the archetypal 2 goals, Jake Oettinger won his archetypal commencement since signing a large declaration extension, and the Dallas Stars bushed the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 connected Saturday successful their archetypal gathering since past season’s Western Conference final.

Roope Hintz besides scored and Jason Robertson added an empty-netter arsenic the Stars improved to 4-0 astatine location this play by beating the squad that eliminated them successful six games successful the West final.

Oettinger stopped 30 shots successful his archetypal quality since signing a $66 million, eight-year hold that could support the 25-year-old with the squad that drafted him until the 2032-33 season.

Duchene scored a power-play extremity precocious successful the 2nd play and made it 2-0 with his 3rd of the play 12:06 into the third.

Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl ended Oettinger’s shutout bid with little than 3 minutes remaining.

Takeaways

Oilers: Stuart Skinner wasn’t tested overmuch aboriginal aft stopping 72 of 76 Dallas shots arsenic the Oilers won the past 3 games successful the West last past season. The Stars had conscionable 11 shots done 2 periods.

Stars: Dallas was 1-of-17 connected the powerfulness play this play erstwhile Duchene scored disconnected the faceoff that started the archetypal accidental against Edmonton precocious successful the second.

Key moment

Oettinger stopped Zach Hyman connected a point-blank changeable aboriginal successful the third, which started a flurry of enactment successful beforehand of and down the Dallas nett successful the archetypal 8 minutes of the last framework with Dallas holding a one-goal lead.

Key stat

Hintz had a three-point game, assisting connected Duchene’s archetypal extremity and getting the secondary assistance connected Robertson’s empty-netter.

Up next

Oilers: Host the Carolina Hurricanes connected Tuesday.

Stars: Visit the Buffalo Sabres connected Tuesday.