Matt Duchene broke the heart of his former team by sending his current club to a second straight Western Conference final. Duchene scored at 11:42 of the second overtime and the Dallas Stars wrapped up their Western Conference semifinal series with a 2-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 6 on Friday in Denver. Duchene, who played his first nine NHL seasons for the Avalanche, picked up a rebound right of the crease and

J.T. Miller scored the tiebreaking goal with 32.6 seconds remaining to give the host Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 comeback victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday and put them one win away from reaching the Western Conference finals. Carson Soucy and Phillip Di Giuseppe also scored for the Canucks, who lead the best-of-seven conference semifinal set 3-2. Vancouver goaltender Arturs Silovs stopped 21 shots. The Canucks will try to close out the series on Saturday

Calvin Pickard recorded the win in his first playoff start and Evan Bouchard scored the tiebreaking goal with 38.1 seconds remaining in regulation as the host Edmonton Oilers registered a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday to even their Western Conference semifinal series at two victories apiece. Bouchard and Leon Draisaitl each had a goal and an assist for the Oilers, who recovered after their two-goal edge disappeared in the third period. Edmonton’s

Wyatt Johnston had two goals and an assist, Miro Heiskanen had a goal and two assists, and the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-1 in Denver on Monday night to take a commanding lead in the Western Conference semifinal series. Dallas leads the series 3-1 with a chance to close it out at home on Wednesday night. Sam Steel and Evgenii Dadonov also scored, Jason Robertson had two assists, and Jake Oettinger turned away

Arturs Silovs made a career-high 42 saves — including 21 in the third period — and the visiting Vancouver Canucks hung on to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal series on Sunday. Brock Boeser had two goals and an assist for the Canucks, who lead the series 2-1. Game 4 of the best-of-seven series is on Tuesday in Edmonton. Elias Lindholm scored twice and J.T. Miller and Quinn

Tyler Seguin scored a go-ahead goal late in the second period and iced it with one into an empty net as the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-1 in Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal series in Denver on Saturday night. Logan Stankoven also had two goals and Jake Oettinger made 28 saves for Dallas, which leads the best-of-7 series 2-1 and regained home ice from Colorado. The Avalanche’s only lead in the

Evan Bouchard scored in overtime to give the visiting Edmonton Oilers a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday and evened their Western Conference semifinal series at one win apiece. Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid both scored once in four-point games for Edmonton. Mattias Ekholm added a goal, and Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner made 16 saves. Building on a third period in which they outshot the Canucks by a 15-2 margin, the Oilers were

Miro Heiskanen scored twice and Roope Hintz tallied once in a four-point performance to lead the host Dallas Stars to a 5-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday. The Western Conference semifinal series is tied 1-1 with Game 3 of the best-of-seven series set for Saturday in Denver. “It’s huge,” Heiskanen said of the victory. “We were down 2-0 to Vegas and it’s a lot better to be 1-1. It was a huge win

Nikita Zadorov and Conor Garland scored 39 seconds apart to cap a wild third-period comeback as the host Vancouver Canucks claimed a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series. The Canucks trailed 4-1 late in the second period before netting the contest’s final four goals. “We’ve had a lot of confidence in our group and I thought we played pretty well in the first (period),”