{"id":36634,"date":"2025-09-20T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/oettinger-overcomes-controversy-stars-goalie-looks-to-the-future-after-hook\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:13:43","slug":"oettinger-overcomes-controversy-stars-goalie-looks-to-the-future-after-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/oettinger-overcomes-controversy-stars-goalie-looks-to-the-future-after-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Oettinger Overcomes Controversy: Stars Goalie Looks to the Future After Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oettinger Reflects on Playoff Elimination and Coaching Change for the Stars<\/h2>\n\nFRISCO, Texas \u2013 Dallas Stars goalie Jake Oettinger is looking forward to the day he can laugh about how last season ended, when he was quickly replaced after allowing two goals on the only shots he faced in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.\n\n\n
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\u201cIn the long run, I feel like I’ll remember it as something that helped me,\u201d Oettinger said on Thursday, during the start of training camp. \u201cAnd when we win everything, I’ll remember it with laughter and feel like it was something I had to go through to get to that.\u201d<\/p>\n\nJake Oettinger<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Stars have been in the playoffs for four consecutive seasons with Oettinger in goal. They lost in the conference final the last three seasons, with Edmonton eliminating them in the last two.\n\nOettinger was replaced at 7:09 of the game in the 6-3 loss last May, in what was a curious and much-commented decision by the now former Stars coach, Pete DeBoer. After the game, DeBoer pointed out that Oettinger had lost six of his last seven playoff games against the Oilers, and hoped that a goalie change could boost the team in an elimination game.\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nThat didn’t happen, and instead generated questions about the relationship between the coach and the 26-year-old goalkeeper, who signed an eight-year, $66 million contract extension last October, which comes into effect this season.\n\nThe two did not speak immediately after the decision.\n\n\n
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\u201cIt was exaggerated a little more than it really was,\u201d Oettinger said. \u201cI think things happen, emotions are running high, and people say and do things on impulse that they may regret. I mean, I\u2019ve done that in my life. I\u2019m sure everyone here has. … You just learn from it, and that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n\nJake Oettinger<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nEight days after the defeat, the Stars fired DeBoer. General Manager Jim Nill said at the time that the players’ opinion and the consequences of Oettinger’s movement were not the only factors in the decision to dispense with the coach, who had a record of 149-68-29 in regular season games and 29-27 in the playoffs during three seasons in Dallas.\n\nDeBoer told NHL.com in a story published this week that he still had no reservations about pulling Oettinger, but regretted how he handled the postgame narrative.\n\n\n

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\u201cListen, we all had a hand in coming up short again, and that starts with me,\u201d DeBoer said. \u201cIt was my fault, it was all the coaches\u2019 fault, it was all the players\u2019 fault, it was the whole organization\u2019s fault. We all created the disappointment. We all had a hand in it, not just one.\u201d<\/p>\n\nPete DeBoer<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nRegarding his reference to Oettinger losing six of the previous seven playoff games against Edmonton over two years when answering a post-game question about the change, DeBoer said he should have made it clear that those losses were everyone’s fault.\n\n\n

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\u201cIt wasn’t just him. It was all of us,\u201d DeBoer told NHL.com. \u201cIt was all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\nPete DeBoer<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nWhen asked Thursday about DeBoer’s comments, Oettinger said: \u201cI think he hit the nail on the head with what he said, so let’s leave it at that.\u201d\n\nIn 251 regular season games (242 starts) over five seasons in the NHL, Oettinger has a record of 149-66-27, a .912 save percentage, and a 2.52 goals-against average. He is 32-30 with a .912 save percentage and 2.56 GAA in 65 playoff games.\n\n\n

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\u201cI think he\u2019s a top-3 goalie in the league, for sure,\u201d said teammate Mikko Rantanen. \u201cThat\u2019s a huge advantage to have a goalie you can trust. And he works hard off the ice. You know he wants to get better, which is also very good.\u201d<\/p>\n\nMikko Rantanen<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oettinger Reflects on Playoff Elimination and Coaching Change for the Stars FRISCO, Texas \u2013 Dallas Stars goalie Jake Oettinger is looking forward to the day he can laugh about how last season ended, when he was quickly replaced after allowing two goals on the only shots he faced in Game 5 of the Western Conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1169,3141,3650,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-36634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nhl","7":"tag-dallas-stars","8":"tag-jake-oettinger","9":"tag-pete-deboer","10":"tag-playoffs"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}