Oilers need to 'bear down' on chances against Stars: coach

It's a different beast, this Dallas Stars team, one the Edmonton Oilers hadn't yet seen in these 2024 National Hockey League playoffs until now. As Oilers forward Evander Kane puts it, the Stars are trying "to lull things to sleep a little bit" while pointing out it appears the top Western seed doesn't "want to take any penalties." The Stars, 5-3 winners in Monday's Game 3 to take a two-games-to-one series lead in the Western Conference Final, have taken just five penalties in the third-round playoff series so far and have shut out the Oilers' power play — still the league's second-best during the post-season with a 33.3-per-cent success rate through 15 games — in the process. "That's more of a tactic on their end," Kane said Tuesday of the discipline displayed by the Stars, who are coached by Pete DeBoer, his former bench boss in San Jose.