Joel Kiviranta scored 7:24 into overtime to complete his first NHL hat trick and the Dallas Stars advanced to the Western Conference Final with a 5-4 win against the Colorado Avalanche in Game 7 of their second-round series at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Friday.The Stars advanced to the conference final for the first time since 2008.
Alexander Radulov scored twice and Anton Khudobin made 40 saves for Dallas, the No. 3 seed in the West.
Vladislav Namestnikov scored twice, and Nazem Kadri and Andre Burakovsky each had a goal and an assist for Colorado, the No. 2 seed in the West. Michael Hutchinson made 31 saves in his third straight start.
Game 1 of Western Conference Final against the Vegas Golden Knights or Vancouver Canucks will be in Edmonton, the hub city for the conference finals and Stanley Cup Final, on Sunday (8 p.m. ET; NBC, SN, CBC, TVA Sports).
The Golden Knights and Canucks are tied 3-3 in their best-of-7 series with Game 7 on Friday (9 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS).
Namestnikov scored his second of the game with 3:40 remaining in the third for a 4-3 lead, but Kiviranta scored 10 seconds later to tie the game 4-4 with 3:30 left in the period.
Kadri made it 3-2 at 5:45 of the second period with a power-play goal, his ninth goal of the playoffs, before Radulov tied it 3-3 with a power-play goal at 11:28 of the third.
Radulov scored a power-play goal off a loose puck in front of the net at 2:39 of the first period for a 1-0 lead.
Namestnikov scored on a deflection of an Ian Cole shot at 3:48 of the first to tie the game 1-1.
Burakovsky scored of off a turnover at 9:43 of the first for a 2-1 lead with his fourth goal in five career NHL Game 7s.
Kiviranta’s first NHL playoff goal tied the game 2-2 at 3:06 of the second.
Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon did not have a point to end his streak at 14 games (nine goals, 16 assists). It is the second longest to begin the playoffs in NHL history behind Bryan Trottier (18 games for New York Islanders in 1981).
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