FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger looks forward to one day being able to laugh about how last season ended, when he was quickly pulled after allowing two goals on the only shots he faced in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.

“In the long run, I feel like I’m gonna look back on it as something that helped me,” Oettinger said Thursday, the opening day of training camp for the Stars. “And when we do win it all, it’s going to be, you know, look back and laugh and feel like that was something I had to go through in order to get to that.”

The Stars have been to the playoffs four consecutive seasons with Oettinger in net. They lost in the conference final the past three seasons, with Edmonton knocking them out the last two.

Oettinger was pulled only 7:09 into th

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