NHL: Stars score 3 PP goals in 5 1/2 minutes in 3rd, rally to beat Oilers 6-3 in Game 1

By STEPHEN HAWKINS DALLAS AP The Dallas Stars powered their way to a series-opening achievement in their Western Conference final rematch with the Edmonton Oilers And it was quick turnaround Former San Jose Shark Mikael Granlund Miro Heiskanen and Matt Duchene scored power-play goals in a span early in the third period when the Stars overcame a two-goal deficit in a - supremacy Wednesday night It started with a power play Duchene reported You get one right way and it s like Hey we re back in it now with momentum Get another one right away Dallas opened the third period with a man advantage from a penalty that carried over from the second Heiskanen scored seconds in on a shot from near the blue line Granlund tied it at and Duchene put the Stars ahead to stay with a second-effort amount I didn t feel through minutes that we had made the Oilers earn the position they were in so guys responded We got fortunate We got specific power-play goals Stars coach Pete DeBoer announced Happy for our power play It took a lot of heat last year at this point of the year it was the difference tonight for us so it s great Tyler Seguin had two goals and an assist for the Stars Esa Lindell added a empty-netter that went almost the entire length of the ice for their first five-goal third period in a playoff match Jake Oettinger stopped shots Event is Friday night in Dallas Dallas went for on power plays in losing the West final last year in six games and gave up two short-handed goals in the process The Stars also failed to convert with a man advantage only minutes into this opener but fast turned that around in the third period Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists for the rested Oilers who played for the first time since wrapping up their second-round series a week earlier in Meeting at Vegas Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a power-play goal and an assist defenseman Evan Bouchard had his fifth goal and Connor McDavid two assists Dallas Stars center Mikael Granlund celebrates a goal with teammates Jason Robertson and Mason Marchment during the third period in Event of the Western Conference finals in the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs against the Edmonton Oilers Wednesday May in Dallas AP Photo LM Otero Stuart Skinner who had lost his starting job in these playoffs before Calvin Pickard got hurt in the last series stopped of shots Skinner had closed out the Golden Knights with consecutive shutouts Goals have been going in a little differently in different techniques Again it s a different series so they show us different things Skinner disclosed The PK it s been a little bit up and down It was bad at the start of the first round then got better It was great all series against Vegas and now a struggle for one event I mean again it s one battle Heiskanen and Duchene both scored for the first time this postseason It was only the fourth battle for Heiskanen since missing the last regular-season games and first playoff games because of left knee surgery He scored a wrister from near the boards just inside the blue line Related Articles History made Valkyries win first tournament in franchise history beating Washington Mystics in dramatic fashion NCS playoffs Wednesday s baseball softball first-round scores Kurtenbach The SF Giants go as Logan Webb goes That makes his loss to the Royals seriously concerning Double trouble for SF Giants Logan Webb gets roughed up Verlander goes to IL The CFP selection process a butterfly s wings in Ann Arbor and the future of the USC-Notre Dame series Duchene got his goal after his initial shot went off teammate Roope Hintz who was laid out on the ice after getting knocked down The puck went right back to Duchene who then flicked it into the net The first one that hit him I m like this is kind of par for the program this postseason for me If there s something that could go wrong it did and then it comes back and goes in Duchene commented I couldn t believe I still had room Kind of a funny one But it feels good The Stars won their seventh consecutive home encounter this postseason a first since the franchise moved to Dallas in The Stars also have won back-to-back series openers after losing eight consecutive Competition s AP NHL playoffs https apnews com hub stanley-cup and https apnews com hub nhl