Jason Robertson published a natural hat trick and Roope Hintz collected three assists to lead the visiting Dallas stars to a 4-3 victory over Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.
Wyatt Johnston also scored and Thomas Harley logged two assists for the stars (46-21-4, 96 points), who have made claims in six consecutive games (4-0-2) and sits six points behind the Winnipeg jets in Central Division.
Dalla’s goalkeeper Jake Oettinger made 42 rescues. His shut -off line ended in 130 minutes, 51 seconds.
Corey Perry and Adam Henrique both gathered a goal and an assist and Zach Hyman added a goal for Oilers, who were without their two top cars, Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid, due to injuries. Evan Bouchard collected two assists for Edmonton (41-25-5, 87 points), which sits third in the Pacific Division.
Oiler’s goalkeeper Stuart Skinner stopped 17 out of 21 shots before leaving in the middle of the third period after Dallas forward Mikko Rantanen’s knee hit him in the head during the game. Calvin Pickard made three rescues in relief.
This is the second time in three matches Skinner skinned a game during the third period after being hit in the head during a collision.
Although Oilers compiled a 14-5 edge in shot during the first period, Johnston opened the score on the 14:66th mark by lifting a shot from an interruption.
Robertson doubled the lead at 05:01 in the second period when he was at the door to Chip Home a Hintz flow for his 30th season.
Robertson extended the lead just past the middle of the middle period when he chose to shoot on an odd man rush.
He finished his fifth career hat trick at 15:30 in the second frame by neatly diverting Harley’s score for a power play.
However, Oilers did not disappear. Perry put them on the board at 9:30 in the third period when he converted a rebound chance for a Power-Play goal.
Henrique added another man-advantage marker at 13:54 with a one-hour from the left faceoff dot.
Hyman made it a goal with 85 seconds left in regulation by converting a recovery with the goalkeeper who was drawn to an extra attacker, but it was too little, too late.
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