Tom Gazzola and former NHLer Matt Kassian recap Game 4 action between the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars!
The Oilers went down 2-0 early in the game but came back to win 5-2 against the Stars to tie the series 2-2.
Matt Kassian shares his thoughts on how the newly formed lineup performed and expressed how he was surprised with their play tonight. Tommy and Kass discuss the bounce back play of Darnell Nurse and how Ryan McLeod scored his first game this playoffs. They both highlight the play in between the pipes with Jake Oettinger and Stuart Skinner. After that, they shift into talking about the Dallas Stars and the injury to Chris Tanev.
Kass and Tommy talk about everything both Connor Brown and Corey Perry said in their postgame interviews before looking ahead to Game 5.
After Matt Kassian leaves, we head into the Dallas Stars locker room to hear from their Head Coach Pete DeBoer.
Zachticum gives ‘The Big Save of the Game’ presented by Christopher Boyle where he hands it to Stuart Skinner with his save on Evgeny Dadonov before hearing from Leon Draisaitl and Mattias Janmark.
Zachticum then gives ‘Player of the Game’ for Damon Bunting giving it to Darnell Nurse and his bounce back.
Near the end of the show, we hear from coach Kris Knoblauch.
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Broberg Mobility and calmness in the situation he was in, was impressive and unexpected. Might have a player there.
I’m at my house, 2-0, I leave they win, I watched Monday and Saturday too and they lost but not game 1 whyyyy
Replay Crew: Go Oil Go. #LetsGoOilers
Brown and Skinner were awesome for this win
Long post follows. Read / Don't Read up to you. Statistics for Round 3 Playoff Game 4 Dallas at Edmonton May 29th, 2025. These are "Base" statistics and are simply a foundation for reference.
Score: Oilers 5, Stars 2. Series Tied 2-2 going back to Dallas.
Edmonton Oilers
Hyman 1 Goal
McDavid 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist
Henrique 1 Goal
Bouchard 1 Secondary Assist
Brown 1 Primary Assist
Skinner 20 Saves on 22 Shots = .909 Save %age (Further comments below, 60 minutes played)
Dallas Stars
Johnson 1 Goal
Lindell 1 Goal
Benn 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist
Harley 1 Secondary Assist
Heiskanen 1 Primary Assist
Just a few notes: Heiskanen played 27:33 (over 3 minutes more than the top Edmonton D Ekholm), Lindell played 23:43. The most a Forward played is Johnson at 19:02 followed by Duchene at 17:47. Other than a bit of abusing a few D Dallas was rotating their lines quite well.
Oettinger 24 Saves on 28 Shots = .857 Save %age (not good), (59 minutes played)
3 Stars: 3-McLeod (1G), 2-McDavid (3A), Janmark (1G (Shortie))
Dallas Edmonton
Shots on Goal 22 29
Hits 23 47
Faceoffs Won 29 32
PP 0/2 0/1
Giveaways 6 8
Takeaways 8 (7 per NST) 7 (6 per NST)
Blocked Shots 14 17 (15 per NST)
Player TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways
Ekholm 24:26 3 3 0 1 1 1 1
Bouchard 23:46 2 3 0 2 2 1 0
Nurse 19:19 1 0 0 12 3 0 0
Kulak 19:09 1 -1 0 0 4 0 0
Ceci 17:21 1 1 0 2 0 0 0
Broberg 14:21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
McDavid 19:50 5 2 0 1 0 0 0
Draisaitl 19:48 3 2 0 3 0 2 0
Hyman 19:06 5 2 2 5 0 0 0
Nuge 17:56 0 1 0 3 1 1 0
McLeod 16:15 2 1 0 1 0 0 0
Holloway 14:37 0 0 0 5 2 2 0
Henrique 14:00 2 0 0 4 0 0 1
Kane 13:56 1 0 0 3 0 0 0
Perry 13:20 1 1 0 3 1 0 1
Janmark 11:02 2 0 0 1 0 1 0
Brown 10:33 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Ryan 7:15 0 -1 2 2 1 0 2
Oilers Faceoffs Won Lost Percent
Henrique 12 4 75.0
Draisaitl 10 7 58.8
McDavid 5 9 35.7
Ryan 2 4 33.3
Nuge 1 2 33.3
McLeod 1 1 50.0
Kane 1 0 100.0
Janmark 0 1 0.00
Holloway 0 1 0.00
Stars Faceoffs Won Lost Percent
Johnson 6 6 50.0
Seguin 4 7 36.4
Pavelski 4 4 50.0
Hintz 4 2 66.7
Faksa 4 3 57.1
Benn 3 4 42.9
Steel 2 0 100.0
Duchene 2 6 25.0
First lets start off with the obvious. For 2 games IN A ROW, Stuart Skinner has let in the first shot for the first goal. In this game he let in another of the next 3 shots. Dallas had a 2 nothing lead with the shot clock saying 4 – 1. Someone needs to give Stu REALLY REALLY GOOD smelling salts to wake him up before he goes out. It takes a lot of offense to overcome a 2 goal deficit especially against a good team. That was the bad news. Now for the good. After 5:29 in the first period Dallas didn't score. It's like Stuart and the team drew a line in the sand and said NO MO FROM HERE. The changes coach Knoblauch made impacted the game. McLeod got his first goal. Perry got an assist. Janmark got a depth goal that was a shortie on a Dallas PP (assisted by Brown). Yes, we had the usual suspects chiming in (Bouch and Leon with goals assisted by McDavid, Nuge, and Hyman) plus the empty netter by Ekholm but we got DEPTH scoring and a Shortie. I wonder if the people who mark goals had to look up Janmark's name to make sure he was on the Oilers it's been so long. Nurse got a secondary assist on the McLeod goal too and registered 12 Hits, TWELVE HITS by himself which is over HALF of Dallas's total.
The Oilers, as a team, had over double the hits of Dallas. The Stars must be pretty "Tenderized" by now. Tanev had to leave the game for the Stars and only played a total of 8:37. Dallas didn't do well in the faceoff dot. Oh the Oilers only had 3 more wins there but if you look at the player by player there aren't a lot of bright spots for the Stars.
Oilers blocked a few more shots, gave away 2 more pucks, Took away 1 less puck, took 1 more penalty (all of the penalties both sides were killed so PK units still running 100%) and they shot 7 more shots that made it to Oettinger.
What I like is the Time on Ice minutes. No Oilers Forward played even 20 minutes so they were rotating the lines quite well too.
For a game that started so wrong the Oilers make it so right and we go into Dallas tied at 2 games each. Take care all.