Stuart Skinner and the Edmonton Oilers bounced back again, and go home even in the Western Conference final.

Skinner made 25 saves for his third shutout of the postseason, two nights after giving up five goals, Connor Brown scored after getting hit in the mouth by a skate and the Oilers beat the Dallas Stars 3-0 in Game 2 on Friday.

“We’ve shown it for many years now, just perseverance from our team, maturity, just the way that we do respond,” Skinner said. “Like I said at the beginning of playoffs, it’s a roller coaster. There’s a lot of highs, lots of lows. Sometimes the score doesn’t always tell everybody exactly how the game unfolded.”

These Oilers overcame a 2-0 deficit in their first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings that cost Skinner his starting job before Calvin Pickard then got hurt.

And then there is Brown, who was bleeding after getting hit ny the toe of Mikael Granlund’s skate when the Stars forward fell down by him near the boards early in the second period.

Brown put the Oilers up 3-0 with 4:37 left in the second period, just 1:13 after defenseman Brett Kulak’s first goal in 36 games since Feb. 27.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a power-play goal in the first period for the Oilers, who go home for Game 3 on Sunday.

“One thing I did notice was the amount of battles we won and the amount of blocked shots,” Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. “That’s just determination and knowing how important the game was tonight that we almost had to walk away with a victory.”

Skinner has four career playoff shutouts. He closed out the second round with consecutive shutouts against Vegas before giving up five goals on 27 shots in the 6-3 loss to opened the series against the Stars.

Dallas’ Jake Oettinger stopped 22 shots.

Stars forward Roope Hintz left the ice without putting any weight on his left leg after Edmonton defender Darnell Nurse slashed him on top of his left skate early in the third. Nurse was given a minor penalty for slashing after officials reviewed for a potential major penalty.

Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said he had no update on the injury to Hintz, but certainly questioned the decision by officials.

The Oilers’ Connor McDavid, a 100-point scorer during the regular season, had an assist, giving him 20 points in these playoffs — matching Dallas’ Mikko Rantanen for the NHL high.

It is the fourth 20-point postseason in a row for McDavid, matching the longest stretch in NHL history with Sergei Fedorov (1995-98), Bryan Trottier (1980-83) and Mike Bossy (1980-83).

McDavid’s running mate, Leon Draisaitl also hit the 20-point mark for the second year in a row.