Stars Eliminate Oilers
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Mike Modano scored the game winning goal in the third period the Dallas Stars advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 6 of the first-round series.
"It is a fine line," Modano said. "It's right to the bitter end every time we play them. It could teeter-totter one way or the other. It could go against us real quick as much as it has gone for us. There's no die in the vocabulary of the team. They have a lot of heart and will."
It was also the fifth time in the last six seasons that Edmonton was defeated by Dallas in the playoffs.
"When you build the belief system in the locker room that you can win a series and you don't get it done, it feels empty. It is tough to swallow," Oilers defenseman Steve Staios said. "The most frustrating thing was that it was these guys again. They seem to have our number in the playoffs."
"We said at the start of the series it was going to be tough. They had a good, young team," Stars forward Kirk Muller said. "We got timely goals. We scored some early goals that really gave us the momentum. We knew coming in here how hard it would be and we were prepared for it."
Top-seeded Dallas will play the No. 7 Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the second round. Anaheim stunned Detroit by sweeping the Stanley Cup champion Red Wings in that first-round series.
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