{"id":498835,"date":"2026-03-12T00:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/498835\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:02:59","slug":"can-dallas-keep-streak-going-in-wcf-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/498835\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Dallas keep streak going in WCF rematch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars<\/a> have points in 12 straight games<\/a> and will look to keep it rolling Thursday night against the hated Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n

After losing to the Oilers in the Western Conference Finals<\/a> in consecutive seasons, the Stars have downed Edmonton in both matchups this season. They\u2019ll look to make it a regular-season sweep on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to know about the matchup.<\/p>\n

How to watch<\/p>\n

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When: Thursday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Where: American Airlines Center<\/p>\n

TV\/Streaming: ESPN+\/Hulu<\/p>\n

Radio: Sportsradio 96.7\/1310 The Ticket<\/p>\n

Familiarity breeds contempt<\/p>\n

These teams play 2,000 miles apart from each other, but you\u2019d have trouble finding anyone from either side who wouldn\u2019t call it a rivalry<\/a>. Dallas and Edmonton have met up eight times in the playoffs, the Stars owning five of those eight series…<\/p>\n

…But Edmonton\u2019s taken the last two big ones. The Oilers have ended the Stars\u2019 season in each of the past two seasons, both times in the \u201cFinal 4\u2033 of the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n

With both teams slated to make the playoffs again this season, a third straight conference finals rematch wouldn\u2019t be much of a surprise.<\/p>\n

Related<\/p>\n

\"TheMore where that came from?<\/p>\n

Stars have to hope they didn\u2019t use up all their goals in the last matchup.<\/p>\n

Dallas exploded for an eight-goal drubbing of the Oilers the last time these two teams met up in November, a game that started with a four-goal first-period onslaught by the Stars.<\/p>\n

The game also featured a milestone goal for Jamie Benn<\/a>, who scored tally No. 400 in the matchup.<\/p>\n

Gameplan around him<\/p>\n

Edmonton\u2019s Connor McDavid is in one of those stretches where opposing teams just have to hope to contain him. Glen Gulutzan has surely spent the last couple days gameplanning for such.<\/p>\n

McDavid enters Thursday\u2019s contest riding an eight-game point streak, collecting 15 points (2 goals, 13 assists) during that span. Six of his last eight games have been multi-point outings. In all, McDavid has totaled 110 points (36, 74) through 65 games this season, leading both the team and all NHL skaters in scoring.<\/p>\n

\"Crayola<\/a>Crayola Experience permanently closes at Willow Bend amid Dallas Stars speculation<\/a><\/p>\n

The Plano site shutters after roughly eight years at site.<\/p>\n

\"Vegas<\/a>Stars run into challenges on offense, but keep points streak alive in tight win over Vegas<\/a><\/p>\n

Dallas, wounded as it may be, keeps piling up the points in games that mean everything.<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>Stars’ Jake Oettinger teams up with Amazon to surprise HopeKids families in Grapevine<\/a><\/p>\n

Oettinger was joined by a group of HopeKids families in celebrating a $10,000 donation from Amazon to the Dallas Stars Foundation.<\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars have points in 12 straight games and will look to keep it rolling Thursday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,2603,3733,4,197,1531],"class_list":{"0":"post-498835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-how-to-watch","13":"tag-jamie-benn","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-stars","16":"tag-wyatt-johnston"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116213279576535457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}