Pete Deboer feels deja vu after ‘heavy’ games 4 oil loss

Only the second time in 2025. Years Playoffs Stanley CupThe Dallas Stars staring down the barrel of elimination. After 4-1 defeat in hands Edmonton oils in the game 4 Western final finite conferences on Tuesday night, the Pete DeBoer club is one loss away from the final four goes back.

And the main trainer of veterans He had seen this film before.

“A little of the same story, isn’t it? I just can’t get that leader,” Deboer said after that, Pierre Lebrun at athletics. “Yes, I loved my first period. Except I missed the net. We need to make a little harder and make sure that you play such a period and don’t go out, and don’t go out there, and don’t go out.”

The stars have an impossible time to become a goalkeeper Skinner Goaltender Stuart Skinner. After a five-year-old third period, he had helped Dallasa recorded the game 1, since then, only two goals in three games had scored.

This is not a prescription for any success, especially taking into account Edmonton on all cylinders and appears locked back in the finals of Stanley Cup.

Stars on the edge of 3. Flat western final loss

The stars advanced to the finals of Stanley Cup back in 2019-20, but lost from the Grmorist in Bay Tampa in six games. Since that time, they managed to progress on three Western conferences finals and so far did not have success.

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This series is not over, but if the stars cannot find a way to set up more efficiently in the back of the network, Offseason could start as soon as Thursday night. None right decays in the series, but Mikko Rantanen, who put the team on the back of this playoff, was noticeably quiet.

“Yes, you know, I’m trying to help and I failed to do so much of this series, it would be necessary to win” said Rantanen, who didn’t score in seven gamesPer Lebrun. “So I’ll try to reset tomorrow and try to find some keys to get bounced or two and try to help us win the game.”

“It’s time to reset,” the star ahead added. “It’s not over until someone wins four games. Now let’s go home at home. Don’t think about what’s just a game. And try to return to Albert.”

Dallas is a great hockey team and have faith that I can go back to this series. But they have to find a way to make life harder for Skinner, which is in fine shape and arrived time offend the stars and again time from games 1.

If things are not changed quickly, Thursday will be curtains on a campaign of 2024-25 Deboer and CO. But all that should be one victory to return them firmly into the series.

Puck falls on Thursday at 8:00 PM ET from the center of the American Airlines Center on Thursday.