Stars hold off Kraken in Game 7 to advance to Western Conference finals

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The Dallas Stars advanced to the Western Conference finals Monday night after a 2-1 win over the Seattle Kraken in Game 7 of the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The Stars move on to face the Vegas Golden Knights to see who will represent the West in the Stanley Cup finals next month.

After only two years as a team, the Kraken were attempting to reach the conference finals, but a rock solid performance from the Stars on both ends of the ice ended those hopes.

Goaltender Jake Oettinger only needed to make 22 saves – thanks to tight defense – and Dallas was able to capitalize on two opportunities against Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer.

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Joe Pavelski #16 of the Dallas Stars skates against the Seattle Kraken in Game Seven of the Second Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs at American Airlines Center on May 15, 2023, in Dallas, Texas (Glenn James/NHLI via Getty Images)

Roope Hintz was the first to take advantage of a Kraken miscue with four minutes left in the second period. The Stars flipped the puck out of their zone to get a line change, but Hintz had other things in mind when he flew off the bench onto the ice. 

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He rushed toward the blue and stole the puck away from Jamie Oleksiak and found the top shelf over Grubauer’s right shoulder to put Dallas up, 1-0.

Then, it was the rookie Wyatt Johnston, who found the puck at his stick in the Kraken zone after Evgenii Dadonov launched a pass down the ice after seeing no one around him.

Johnston picked it up off the corner wall, made his way