EDMONTON -- The Edmonton Oilers are going into Game 5 of the Western Conference Final against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; ESPN+, ESPN, SN, TVAS, CBC) with full intentions of ending the best-of-7 series and going to the Stanley Cup Final for the second consecutive season.

Hyman has been an integral part of the Oilers team that has reached the conference finals in three of the last four years. He has 11 points in this year's postseason and had 16 goals and six assists during the team’s run to the Stanley Cup Final last season. More importantly, Hyman led the team and the NHL in hits during the 2025 postseason.

The Dallas Stars fell to the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night and now face a difficult 3-1 series deficit in the Western Conference Finals.

Edmonton Oilers winger Zach Hyman, checked by the Dallas Stars' Mason Marchment on Tuesday, will have surgery and is expected out for the playoffs.

Edmonton Oilers forward Zach Hyman will undergo an upper-body surgery and is expected to miss the remainder of the Stanley Cup playoffs, coach Kris Knoblauch told reporters Wednesday.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has been a force against the Dallas Stars, recording at least two points in every game of the Western Conference final. The Edmonton Oilers veteran has posted nine points in a four-game run to start a semifinal matchup that’s drawing comparisons to Wayne Gretzky in 1988.

An Edmonton Oilers fan dressed as the team’s head coach and sat in the stands during Game 4 of the Western Conference Final against the Dallas Stars at Rogers Place on Tuesday. Matt Ziprick, a local pastor, went viral after he told a story during a sermon about a woman mistaking him for Knoblauch at the grocery store.