Recap: Stars get peppered with 50 shots against in 5-2 loss to Oilers

Roope Hintz and Jason Robertson scoring goals is great, but when no one else is, that's a problem. For the second game in a row, those players were the only ones to light the lamp, and the result was unfortunately familiar.
Despite erasing a two-goal deficit, the Stars fell 5-2 to the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Thursday. The loss, the Stars' second in a row on their last road trip of the regular season, dropped their record to 43-29-5.

What's more troubling is the Stars have failed to separate themselves from Vegas and Vancouver, who are still alive in the postseason race. Instead of putting the dagger into the Golden Knights and Canucks, the Stars are backpedaling in the final week of the season. Games in hand for the Stars are a thing of the past now.
When it's only a couple guys providing offense, the team's defense better be sharp. On Wednesday, that wasn't the case. The Stars fell behind 2-0 in the first six minutes of the game on goals from Evander Kane and Derek Ryan. Stars goalie Scott Wedgewood was under siege throughout the opening 20, making 17 saves on 19 shots.
And even though the Stars clawed their way back on two unanswered goals from Robertson and Hintz, they let the Oilers restore their two-goal lead on buzz-killing tallies from Zach Hyman and Jesse Puljujarvi less than six minutes apart on the back-half of the second period.

The Stars managed to break Mike Smith's shutout streak, which lasted 144:39 - the seventh longest shutout streak in Oilers history - but he won his seventh consecutive start.

Wedgewood suffered his first regulation loss since joining the Stars, finishing with 45 saves on 49 shots.
Robertson joined rare company with his goal in the first period. He became just the sixth player in Stars/North Stars history to score 37-plus goals in a single season at age 22 or younger and just the second since the club relocated to Dallas in 1993-94. He followed Dino Ciccarelli (55 in 1981-82), Steve Payne (42 in 1979-80), Brian Bellows (41 in 1983-84) and Neal Broten (38 in 1981-82) with the North Stars as well as Tyler Seguin (37 in 2013-14) with the Stars.
The Stars will look to salvage their road trip against the Pacific Division-leading Calgary Flames on Thursday.
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Kyle Shohara is the Digital Manager for DallasStars.com and writes about the Stars/NHL. Follow him on Twitter