The ugly release of Dallas Stars raises many questions for Pete Deboer, Jake Oettinger

Jake Oettinger sat down and saw everything. He sat down next to Ray Ferraro d’Espn for the last 52 minutes. He had a good view of the wreckage of the train, another season of the beautiful stars had become since he was fired at 7:09 am A 6-3 defeatA defeat of match 5 of the series at the EDMONTON OILERS at AAC.

Oettinger had made a power game goal in Corey Perry with Edmonton working on his usual tick-tac-toe through the stars penalty, then abandoned a goal on a breakaway from the third liner of the old stars Mattias Janmark.

Two shots, two goals.

With that, Coach Pete Deboer Called Timeout, shouted to his team and then, with Oettinger having already patinated in the game circle towards the fold, shouted to his goalkeeper to get off the ice. Casey Desmith, undoubtedly surprised by the turn of events, patinated in the fray.

Otter is somewhat liked here but he finishes the Western conference finals With a 1-4 file in its starts and a percentage of stops of 0.853. Deboer is especially appreciated here, and he has an excellent match 7 file, but who cares if his team cannot go so deeply when she counts?

Who had the Dallas stars“The 2024-25 season comes out like that?”

Deboer’s comments were more than a little interesting.

“I didn’t blame everything on Jake,” said Deboer. “But you know, the reality is that if you return to the playoffs last year, he lost six of the seven games against Edmonton, and we abandoned two penalties in an elimination match. It was therefore partly to trigger our team, and in part that the status quo had not worked.”

If you are wondering what it means for Jake “Status quo” Oettinger for next season, too.

In the end, there was only one difference in a game between what the stars have achieved this spring and what they have done in the past two years. After losing against Vegas and Edmonton in six, the stars fell to the oilers in five games after losing four in a row.

Oettinger did not speak after the match and apparently did not speak during the match. “I didn’t tell him a word,” said Ferraro. “A time ago to joke, and that’s not all.”

Oettinger was preceded by Stuart Skinner in the final series, without a doubt, although it is crazy to represent it as a scapegoat No. 1 from Dallas for this collapse. When the three defeats that brought you into this despair match were scores of 3-0, 6-1 and 4-1, it is probably worth discussing the offense and where it disappeared at the time of the spring.

Remember all these hat tricks and the magical moments of Mikko RantanenHas the Savior acquired Colorado through Carolina on the deadline for trade? No goal against Edmonton. In force, the stars had a very calm last month, based strongly on power game objectives to continue to move forward.

“I thought we had played two good laps,” said Rantanen, “then Edmonton did the difficult task for us and we did not succeed.”

Deboer has not chopped words on his team either.

“On paper, we might have had the best team we had here. But I’m not sure it’s the best team,” said Deboer. “The way we finished the season (sequence of seven consecutive defeats), I think I think a little in the playoffs. Which does not suit me. We found a way to spend two very good teams, but it was a bit of a red flag for me.”

After finishing 10-9 in the playoffs in the past two years, the stars have been 9-9 this time and it looks more like a playoff race, if such a thing is possible when a team goes to the Western Conference finals. There remains an obvious point of pride, eliminating very good teams like Colorado and Winnipeg, the winner of the presidents trophy, in order to go here. But when you make this trip deep in three consecutive years, you feel like you have to unravel yourself and move forward sooner.

This reminds me more of the cowboys of the early 80s, Danny White leading the team in the post-Stabach era and losing NFC title matches at Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington. No shame in all of this. One of these games has become legendary in the history of the NFL (“The Catch”) and the other two make at least popular memories in Philly and in the national capital. The cowboys continued to think that they were close, but they were really not, and a ugly end was only a few years later for everyone.

Stars have a lot of young talents, but they play in a West who will always have challenges throughout the playoffs. The series last year with the Oilers was more competitive with Dallas leading 2-1 before Edmonton took control. This illustrated that the stars have not taken ground on the title champions of the Western Conference.

It is bad when the managing director Jim Nill is negotiating against Mikael Granlund and that he negotiates for Rantanen and he sends three first -round choices and a few other choices and a very handsome young player from Logan Stankoven. The race for the Stanley 2025 Cup was underway.

It did not happen.

Deboer has now made eight conference finals with New Jersey, San Jose, Vegas and Dallas, and his teams reached the last time but … still no cup. Not coming to Dallas either this summer either.

The coach also had something to say about it.

“There is no doubt that the two best teams are playing for the cup,” he said.

The Caroline having been eliminated 25 hours earlier, the cries of “our n ° 3” will be the business order for the fans of the stars this summer.

More on the debt of the stars season

– Five Stars-Oilers Game 5 thoughts: a familiar end to Dallas season

– Stars could never overcome this deadly flaw against a team of talented oilers

– Connor McDavid’s escape goal was `Game Over ” for Match 5, the Stars season

– National reaction to the ouilers eliminating the stars: benching jake oettinger “unforgivable”

– Why did Pete Deboer Banc Jake Oettinger? Stars Coach explains the first exchange of goalkeeper in match 5

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