Mason Marchment scored, and Jake Oettinger made eight saves for the Stars, who were the No. 1 seed from the Central Division.
“Just gutting is the only word I can feel when you lose a game like that,” Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said. “Proud of our group, proud of our fight, proud of our battle. We’re just gutted. They did leave it all out there. We should be playing for a Game 7. Have to give Edmonton credit for their power play, in particular over the last two games, was good. Their goaltending was good.”
McDavid put Edmonton ahead 1-0 with an individual effort on the power play at 4:17 of the first period. He made a move around Sam Steel in the left circle, toe-dragged the puck around Miro Heiskanen with Steel on his back, and roofed a backhand over Oettinger’s glove from in tight.
“Yeah, it was nice. I’ve seen it before, but it was nice,” Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl said. “There’s one player in the world that can make plays like that and (make) things like that happen. I don’t know what to say. He knows what I think of him, I think everybody does. So, I’ll just leave it at that.”
Hyman made it 2-0 with another power-play goal at 15:42. He took a pass from McDavid at the edge of the left circle and shot high blocker side on Oettinger for his League-leading 14th goal of the playoffs.
It was Edmonton’s second goal on three shots in the first. Dallas finished with 12 shots in the period.
“It’s fine lines when you get to this time of the year,” DeBoer said. “I thought we had a little bit of an off night in Game 5 and they won (3-1 on Friday), and they had a bit of an off night tonight and they still found a way to win. That’s the difference. … I don’t know what to say. Tough to swallow.”