The Stars lost in the Stanley Cup Final in 2020 and in the conference final each of the past two years. Coach Pete DeBoer and forwards Jamie Benn and Matt Duchene have never won the Cup in their long NHL careers. Forward Tyler Seguin hasn't won it since he was a 19-year-old rookie with the Boston Bruins in 2011.

The Anaheim Ducks head into the 2025 offseason with a new face behind the bench in the form of recently hired Joel Quenneville, and a new mandate from ownership and the front office to make the playoffs as soon as possible.

Scheduled from May 22 - June 1, the 2025 Memorial Cup will be streamed live worldwide (excluding Canada), as Victory+ expands its global footprint and redefines access to live hockey content.

Klingberg has been a pleasant surprise for Edmonton in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and will look to continue the upward trend against his former team in the Western Conference Final. The Oilers and Stars open the best-of-7 series with Game 1 at the American Airlines Center here on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET; ESPN+, ESPN, SN, TVAS, CBC).

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The conference final matchups for the Stanley Cup Playoffs are set. The Dallas Stars will face the Edmonton Oilers in a rematch of last season's Western Conference final while the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers will face the Carolina Hurricanes.

The Stars opened their Western Conference final rematch against the Oilers with a 6-3 victory Wednesday in Dallas.

Klingberg battled back from hip surgery with Edmonton and now returns to Dallas, where he played for eight seasons, for the conference finals.

In addition to the controversy around his hiring, is Quenneville the correct coach to take the Ducks back to the playoffs?