Schedule and 2001 Results
Regular Season Records: Dallas 48-24-8-2=106pts, Edmonton 39-28-12-3=93pts
Game 1 on Wednesday, 11 April: Edmonton loses at Dallas in OT, 2-1
Game 2 on Saturday, 14 April: Edmonton wins at Dallas, 4-3
Game 3 on Sunday, 15 April: Dallas wins at Edmonton in OT, 3-2
Game 4 on Tuesday, 17 April: Dallas loses at Edmonton in OT, 2-1
Game 5 on Thursday, 19 April: Edmonton loses at Dallas in OT, 4-3
Game 6 on Saturday, 21 April: Dallas wins at Edmonton, 3-1

OVERALL SUBSTANCE: Dallas defeats Edmonton WLWLWW:
The six-game WLWLWW victory by Dallas over Edmonton is the 5th in NHL Prelim round best-of-7 series, the 10th in NHL best-of-7 series (all rounds), and the 26th in NHL, NBA, or MLB best-of-7 series.

SERIES NOTES: Game 6: Dallas defeats Edmonton 3-goals-1 to win series 829 4-games-2; Dallas tied the game with 48:57 elapsed in regulation -- in the 2369 best-of-7 format NHL playoff games from 1939 through 2000, when the home team (Edmonton) leads by one goal with 48:56 elapsed in regulation, its game record is 366-66 (.847), indicating that the Dallas Game 6 win was something of a comeback victory; with the win, Dallas improves its best-of-7 Prelim-round Game 6 record to a perfect (and NHL-leading) 3-0 (and 3-0 on the road as well) -- the Edmonton best-of-7 Prelim-round Game 6 record falls to 3-4 (and 2-4 at home) . . . Game 5: Dallas defeats Edmonton in overtime 4-goals-3 to take the lead in series 829, 3-games-2; Dallas scored a game-tying goal that proved to be the last in regulation with 55:38 of regulation elapsed -- in the 2369 games played within best-of-7 NHL series from 1939 through 2000, teams leading the game by one goal with 55:37 elapsed had a game record of 679-53 (.928) . . . Game 4: Edmonton defeats Dallas 2-goals-1 in overtime to even the series at 2-games-all; in the 426 best-of-7 NHL playoff series from 1939 through 2000, only seven featured four one-goal victories through four games -- this series is the ninth to do so (Philadelphia-Buffalo became the eighth earlier tonight), making 2001 the first year in which there were more than one best-of-7 NHL playoff series to have four one-goal victories through the first four games . . . Game 3: Dallas wins in Edmonton in overtime, 3-2; Dallas had leads of two goals with one minute four seconds left in regulation, and one goal with eight seconds left in regulation -- in the 2369 NHL best-of-7 playoff games from 1939 through 2000, the record of teams leading by two goals with 64 seconds left was 555-0, and the record of teams leading by one goal with 8 seconds left was 539-0 (an Edmonton win in OT would have been a huge comeback win); the Dallas winning goal came 19:48 into overtime -- in the 2369 NHL best-of-7 playoff games from 1939 through 2000, the record of home teams (e.g. Edmonton) with 19:47 of overtime elapsed was 33-45 (historically, the longer a best-of-7 playoff overtime lasts, the greater the probability that the visitors will win the game) . . . Game 2: Edmonton's defeat of Dallas (4-3) snaps a nine-game winning streak in Game 2 of NHL best-of-7 playoff series by the Stars; in NHL best-of-7 series during 1939-2000, teams winning Game 1 by one goal and losing Game 2 by one goal (i.e., Dallas) have a series record of 12-12 (3-6 in the Prelim round) . . . Game 1: In the only 11 April 2001 NHL playoff game to see a lead change, Dallas defeats Edmonton in overtime by a score of 2-1 . . . Pre-series: In best-of-7 NHL playoff history from 1939 through 2000, the team with the 13-point regular season advantage vs. a playoff opponent (i.e., the margin by which Dallas finished ahead of Edmonton in the 2000-01 regular season) had a 5-7 series record vs. that opponent; in NHL Preliminary round best-of-7 play through 2000, Dallas leads the NHL in highest game-winning percentage (20 wins, 11 losses, .645).