{"id":35906,"date":"2025-11-05T05:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35906\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:03:06","slug":"wyatt-johnstons-shootout-goal-lifts-dallas-stars-over-edmonton-4-3-in-a-season-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35906\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston&#8217;s shootout goal lifts Dallas Stars over Edmonton 4-3 in a season rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wyatt Johnston had three assists before making the game-ending shot in a shootout as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas Stars<\/a> beat Edmonton 4-3 on Tuesday night, in their first meeting since the Oilers eliminated them in the Western Conference Final for the second season in a row. <\/p>\n<p>Mikko Rantanen had two goals and an assist for the Stars. <\/p>\n<p>Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid and Vasily Podkolzin scored for Edmonton, which led 2-0 only 7:07 in while playing for the third time in four days. <\/p>\n<p>Casey DeSmith had 23 saves before stopping two of three shots in the shootout. Jake Oettinger was on the bench, but didn&#8217;t play for Dallas after the birth of his first child. <\/p>\n<p>Stuart Skinner, who beat the Stars in the last two West finals, stopped 24 shots. <\/p>\n<p>After having the primary assist on Draisaitl&#8217;s power-play goal from about 30 feet directly to the left of the net in the second period, McDavid put the Oilers up 3-1 at 7:51 of the third period. <\/p>\n<p>With four points and 17 assists, McDavid joined Sidney Crosby as the only active players to reach 20 points within the first 15 games of a season seven times. <\/p>\n<p>Only 46 seconds after McDavid&#8217;s goal, Rantanen scored his second of the game, seventh of the season and 301st of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Miro Heiskanen tied it at 3 with 7:40 left in regulation when he knocked in the puck after it ricocheted off the back wall and to the opposite side of Skinner.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the playoff rematch, Glen Gultzan was on the Stars bench as head coach after spending the past seven seasons as an assistant in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers wrapped up the West final with a 6-3 win in Game 5 in Dallas on May 29. They eliminated the Stars in six games in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Oilers: Host Colorado on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Stars: Host Anaheim on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston had three assists before making the game-ending shot in a shootout as the Dallas Stars beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1115,22744,2484,22745,154,22746],"class_list":["post-35906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-stars","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-nhl","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}