The Dallas Stars are now just three wins away from the Stanley Cup Final after defeating the Edmonton Oilers 6-3 in Game 1 of the Western Conference Final Wedne

It's really not as bad as it sounds for the Dallas Stars that Mikko Rantanen has gone four playoff games in a row without scoring a goal.

Going into this season, only four teams had gone to three straight conference finals, and all four won it all at least once. Three — Tampa Bay, Chicago and Los Angeles — won two. The Stars are just trying to make the Final for the first time under Pete DeBoer. Feels like a tipping point. Stars in 7 games.

Perhaps no NHL team is built so well, or built to last so long, as the Stars, who are back in the Western Conference final.

Jim Nill's acquisition of Mikko Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes has transformed the Dallas Stars into genuine Stanley Cup contenders. Nill capit

NHL GMs vote for the award after the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Dallas Stars have made the Western Conference Final for the third year in a row and feel they’re better than they were a year ago, when they lost to the Edmonton Oilers in six games.

The Dallas Stars’ Western Conference finals matchup this spring is a chance at revenge. It’s a chance at revenge against the Edmonton Oilers, who eliminated the Stars in this same round last year. And it’s a chance to show that the way the Stars lost in 2024 won’t trickle into 2025.

The puck drops Wednesday night in Dallas for a familiar matchup in the Western Conference Finals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs; the Stars and Edmonton Oilers will face off for the second straight year.