Jake Oettinger sat and saw it all. He sat right next to ESPN’s Ray Ferraro for the final 52 minutes. He had a good view of the train wreck another fine Stars’ season had become since he was pulled just 7:09 into a 6-3 defeat, a Game 5 series-ending loss to the Edmonton Oilers at the AAC.
Oettinger had surrendered a power-play goal to Corey Perry with Edmonton working its usual tic-tac-toe through the Stars’ slumping penalty kill, then gave up a goal on a breakaway to former Stars’ third liner Mattias Janmark.
Two shots, two goals.
With that, coach Pete DeBoer called timeout, yelled at his team and then, with Oettinger already having skated back into the faceoff circle toward the crease, shouted at his goalie to get off…