DALLAS — The Dallas Stars could possibly be with out captain Jamie Benn for greater than all of that point he missed in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final after being ejected for his ugly hit early towards Vegas captain Mark Stone.
An NHL suspension is feasible for Benn, who acquired a recreation misconduct for his cross-check lower than two minutes into Wednesday night time’s recreation that the Golden Knights received 4-0 to take a commanding 3-0 collection lead.
After the 2 captains collided close to the blue line and Stone fell to the ice, Benn lunged ahead with each fingers on his stick and made contact close to Stone’s neck as he was sliding over the middle line.
“Let’s put it this way. He made a mistake. He feels really badly about it. I don’t think anyone in the building feels worse than he does about it,” DeBoer mentioned.
Benn left after the sport with out speaking to reporters.
“I’m not going to pile on, he’s been a leader here for his entire career, and leads every day on and off the ice. … Fortunately Mark Stone’s OK,” DeBoer mentioned. “We’ve got to live with the consequences. We lived with them tonight, and we’ll live with them going forward if there’s any other supplemental discipline.”
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The Stars have been already down 1-0 when Benn had a wrister that was stopped by Adin Hill, however was initially nonetheless unfastened below the goalie as Benn tried to get his stick again on it. The hit on Stone got here quickly after that.
“Tied up and engaged, and went for a little extra,” Stars alternate captain Joe Pavelski mentioned. “Emotions get the best of all of us at some point.”
Asked if Benn mentioned something to the group, Pavelski mentioned he didn’t earlier than including, “he wears it as much as anybody. He’s a tremendous leader. We would never question that. As a group, we’ve got to rally together.”
Ivan Barbashev scored on the following energy play. That was the second of three targets the Golden Knights had within the first 7 1/2 minutes, resulting in an exit for goalie Jake Oettinger.
Oettinger, who additionally left even earlier than the locker room was open to reporters, was pulled and changed by Scott Wedgewood after William Carrier’s backhander that made it 3-0 with 12:50 left within the first interval. It was the shortest begin of Oettinger’s profession.
“We’re concerned with our whole team, we’re in a 3-0 hole,” DeBoer mentioned. “Listen, we wouldn’t be sitting here playing right now without Jake Oettinger. We wouldn’t be sitting here playing without Jamie Benn. Those guys have been huge pieces of us getting here, so I think we all have to be better in order to dig out of this hole.”
Game 4 is Thursday night time in Dallas.
The 24-year-old Oettinger has now misplaced three begins in a row. He has misplaced 4 of 5 general, the win being when he had 22 saves for the Stars of their 2-1 win in Game 7 of Western semifinal towards Seattle.
Wedgewood stopped 10 of 11 pictures, with Alex Pietrangelo’s objective coming only a second after the tip of an influence play as Miro Heiskanen was popping out of the penalty field.
Wedgewood additionally changed Oettinger about 4 1/2 minutes into the second interval Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals towards Seattle after the 24-year-old starter allowed 4 targets on 18 pictures in what grew to become a 6-3 loss. That was his earlier shortest begin, however Oettinger then had 22 saves in Game 7 towards the Kraken and allowed his solely objective within the closing seconds of a 2-1 win.
Stars heart Max Domi acquired a recreation misconduct with 21 seconds left within the second interval towards the Knights. After his cross-check towards Nicolas Hague, Domi began throwing punches.
Fans within the enviornment reacted to the following penalty by throwing water bottles, meals and different objects on the ice. With prolonged time wanted to scrub up the enjoying floor, officers despatched each groups to their locker rooms early for the second intermission with the Knights up 4-0 – and performed these last seconds after the intermission earlier than enjoying the third interval.
The Stars additionally misplaced ahead Evgenii Dadonov to a lower-body damage within the first interval.
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