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Old-timer's day
40-year-old Carbonneau nets winner; Stars build 3-1 lead
Posted: Monday May 08, 2000 09:26 PM
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Brett Hull, Mike Modano, Guy Carbonneau and Joe Nieuwendyk carried the defending Stanley Cup champions to a 4-3 win Tuesday night and a 3-1 lead in their first-round series against the Edmonton Oilers.
The Stars can advance in the Western Conference playoffs with a win at home Friday night.
Oilers goalie Tommy Salo appeared screened by defenseman Igor Ulanov when Carbonneau's shot from the high slot went over his glove hand, breaking a 3-3 tie just 5:01 into the final period.
Bill Guerin scored all three goals for Edmonton.
Guerin played down his hat trick, his first-ever in the playoffs and the second by an Oilers player in two games. Doug Weight had three goals in Edmonton's 5-2 win Sunday.
"This isn't the time of year to worry about points and goals," Guerin said. "Hat tricks are good but you've got to win."
Dallas capitalized on Edmonton defensive lapses to take a quick 2-0 lead in the first period. Hull, who also had an assist, scored on a rebound at 5:02 after the Oilers' Tom Poti failed to clear the puck.
"Brett did what he had to do," Dallas coach Ken Hitchcock said. "He scored and he was ready to load it up every shift."
Nieuwendyk didn't score, but had his best game of the series, menacing the Oilers in the offensive zone and rattling one shot off the crossbar.
"He was a threat and we were able to come at people with a bit of a one-two punch," Hitchcock said of Nieuwendyk.
Richard Matvichuk caught the Oilers running around in their own end 48 seconds later and scored on a slap shot from the point.
But Guerin tied the game before the period was finished.
Modano gave the Stars a 3-2 lead in the second when he cut through the slot and fired a rebound past Salo. The Stars continued to swarm around the Dallas net, but couldn't put the Oilers away.
"It was simply a case of us stopping [the game plan of] shooting the puck," Oilers coach Kevin Lowe said. "The positive was we were able to battle back on a team that doesn't allow that to happen very often."
With less than two minutes to go in the second, Guerin walked in to the left of goalie Ed Belfour and hammered a long slap shot that skipped over Belfour's glove hand and into the net.
That sent the 17,100 fans at Skyreach Centre into a frenzy for the second consecutive game. Hats, white foam noodles and foam puckheads cascaded down to salute the hat trick.
The crowd taunted Belfour early and often. They heckled him in warmups, during the national anthem and throughout the game, sarcastically chanting "Belfour! Belfour!" and waving a forest of white foam noodles in his direction.
Stars forward Blake Sloan was knocked out of the game early after he was hit in the face with a stick. Edmonton center Todd Marchant, believed to be the victim of a hard Derian Hatcher hit, was out for the second straight game. |
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By Gerry Prince, SLAM! Sports
EDMONTON -- Guy Carbonneau can probably relate to Rodney Dangerfield.
The NHL's elder statesman pots the game winner for the Dallas Stars and winds up in the training room for stitches.
Clearly, the man got no respect.
"I was sitting on the bench and there was a check and I got clipped with a stick," explained Carbonneau, tugging at the playing cast on his right wrist.
He may not have gotten any respect from whoever was wielding the stick, but Carbonneau grabbed the attention of the Edmonton Oilers and the sellout crowd as he fired the game-winner in the Stars 4-3 win last night.
Carbonneau and two other former Montreal Canadiens captains, Mike Keane and Kirk Muller, combined on the tally that gave Dallas a 3-1 series lead over the Oilers.
TOOK MISCONDUCT
"I didn't really think about that," smiled Carbonneau when reminded of that fact.
After taking a 10-minute misconduct, the 40-year-old Carbonneau was looking to atone for the major that kept him in the penalty box for the first four goals of the tilt.
"Unfortunately, we had a couple of penalties at the start and even I got involved," Carbonneau said. "I took a stupid 10-minute (misconduct).
"When I came back to the bench I wanted to help the team as much as possible. Obviously, that goal was a good start for me. I guess over 20 years, a couple of 10-minute (misconducts) isn't bad."
"With the game we played last game, they had the momentum going into this game. We tried to take it away."
KOED BY AN ELBOW
Stars coach Ken Hitchcock was forced to throw the Keane-Carbonneau-Muller line together after Bert Robertsson KOed Stars' right winger Blake Sloan with an elbow to the mouth about the midway point of the opening period.
Despite a combined age of 107 years, according to Carbonneau, the threesome never played as a unit while in Montreal.
"I played with Mike a bit and Kirk a little bit on penalty killing because he was a centre man over there," he said. "I've never been known to play that well in a five- or six-goal game. Everytime the game is tied, I seem to play well under pressure."
If you add Oiler defenceman Igor Ulanov, the man Oil netminder Tommy salo claims Carbonneau's shot deflected in off of, no fewer than four former Habs were involved on the play.
Carbonneau wants no part of another trip north.
"You always try to keep the other team from coming back," he said. "You always try to finish the series as quick as possible."
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