Corey Perry and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins mixed to assist the Oilers defeat the Stars and transfer inside one victory of their second straight journey to the Stanley Cup Closing.
* Ryan Nugent-Hopkins grew to become the primary participant in 37 years to document a number of factors in every of the primary 4 video games of the spherical earlier than the Stanley Cup Closing.
* Jaccob Slavin and the Hurricanes will look to chop their collection deficit to 1 once they host Matthew Tkachuk and the Panthers at Lenovo Heart for Sport 5 of the Japanese Convention Closing.
PERRY, NUGENT-HOPKINS HELP OILERS MOVE WITHIN ONE WIN OF FINAL
Corey Perry scored the sport winner and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (0-2—2) prolonged his multi-point streak to 4 video games because the Oilers defeated the Stars to maneuver inside one win of securing their second straight journey to the Stanley Cup Closing.
* Perry, the one Stanley Cup champion on the Oilers roster, scored his sixth objective of the 2025 playoffs and tied probably the most by a participant age 39 or older in a single postseason (age at begin of playoffs), matching Teemu Selanne (6 in 2011 w/ ANA), Mark Recchi (6 in 2010 w/ BOS), Ron Francis (6 in 2002 w/ CAR) and Jean Beliveau (6 in 1971 w/ MTL). Within the course of, Perry additionally grew to become the fifth energetic participant to attain 60 profession playoff objectives, becoming a member of Alex Ovechkin (77), Sidney Crosby (71), Evgeni Malkin (67) and Brad Marchand (60).
* Nugent-Hopkins grew to become the seventh totally different participant in NHL historical past to document a number of factors throughout every of the primary 4 video games of the spherical earlier than the Stanley Cup Closing, following Wayne Gretzky (5 GP in 1988 CF & 4 GP in 1983 CF), Craig Janney (4 GP in 1990 CF), Cam Neely (4 GP in 1990 CF), Johnny Bucyk (4 GP in 1972 SF), Toe Blake (4 GP in 1946 SF) and Elmer Lach (4 GP in 1946 SF). Nugent-Hopkins additionally grew to become simply the eighth active player to post such a streak from the beginning of any playoff collection, with Leon Draisaitl (5 GP in 2022 R2) and Crosby (5 GP in 2010 CQF) topping the record.
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HURRICANES LOOK TO CUT SERIES DEFICIT TO ONE IN GAME 5
Jaccob Slavin and the Hurricanes will look to stave off elimination for the second straight contest once they welcome Matthew Tkachuk and the Panthers to Lenovo Heart for Sport 5 of the Japanese Convention Closing.
* The Panthers will take one other shot at clinching their third consecutive Stanley Cup Final appearance as they appear to change into simply the seventh team in the NHL’s expansion era (since 1967-68) to perform the feat.
* Slavin performed an integral position in Carolina’s Sport 4 win as he recorded 4 blocked photographs and was plus-3 in 28:00 of ice time. The blueliner leads all Hurricanes skaters with a plus-3 score within the Japanese Convention Closing whereas his profession postseason plus-minus of plus-44 trails solely Golden Knights ahead William Karlsson (+45) for the best mark among active skaters.
* Carolina can battle again from a 3-0 collection deficit with two consecutive wins for the second straight postseason following the 2024 Second Spherical towards the NY Rangers. The Hurricanes may change into simply the sixth group in NHL historical past to win two straight video games after trailing 3-0 within the Convention Finals/Semifinals, following the 2023 Stars (vs. VGK), 2008 Stars (vs. DET), 1980 Sabres (vs. NYI), 1975 Islanders (vs. PHI) and 1939 Rangers (vs. BOS).
