The Edmonton Oilers put their offensive firepower on display on Sunday afternoon, racing away from the Dallas Stars for a 6-1 win.

The Oilers have taken a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference final against the Stars, who will be desperate to tie the series up in Edmonton on Tuesday night.

It was a bombshell game for Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who has been a powerful force in this series. On Sunday, he added three more assists, after getting four points across the first two games against the Stars. He’s been steady throughout the whole postseason, with 16 points across 14 games.

“He‘s asked to do everything every single night,” Connor McDavid said of Nugent-Hopkins after the game. “Plays big minutes, five-on-five, obviously on the power play, and he’s a leader on the penalty kill as well. He’s kind of our Swiss Army Knife.”

McDavid, who has been an assist-heavy player this season, posted his first two goals of the series putting him at the top of the postseason in points, now with 22. He, along with Evan Bouchard and Nugent-Hopkins have been piling up points in this series as the Stars haven’t been able to find a response to the tip of Edmonton’s spear.

Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch thought it was only a matter of time before McDavid began putting the puck in the net again.

“Good players can play well and not score, but it’s not going to be very long. It’s about an amount of time before they start going in and tonight was the night,” Knoblauch said after the game.

“People forget he’s a 60-goal scorer,” Oilers’ forward Zach Hyman told reporters after the game. “He just makes the right play … whether it’s a pass or goal.”

Stuart Skinner continued to be strong between the pipes, with a 34-save performance. This came after he posted a shutout in his last game that reset the series and marked his third shutout of the playoffs.

Much of the first period was a back and forth, but Edmonton left the gate stronger, leading in hits and shots before Bouchard drew first blood with a one-timer slapshot feed from Nugent-Hopkins.

Just 36 seconds after, McDavid walked into the Stars’ zone in a three-on-one and scored top glove side after a quick give-and-go from Nugent-Hopkins.

The Stars attempted to reclaim momentum in the second after starting the period with a power play but were unable to put one away. A series of rapid starts and stops stuttered the pace of play after that failed power play from the Stars, who then had to kill a pair of penalties in the period.

They threw a lot at Skinner but were largely turned away, despite tripling the Oilers in shots, 21-7.

Jason Robertson, who had been struggling to find his stride in the postseason after coming off an injury, found success with a late goal to put Dallas back in the game. Later in the postgame, Stars coach Peter DeBoer called it Robertson’s best game of the postseason.

“I think it changed the temperature in the dressing room and on the bench just knowing that we had that two-goal lead and they were pushing,” Knoblauch said about the Stars’ second period onslaught.

“Then Connor just steps up and makes a huge play.”

With just 19 seconds left in the second period, McDavid took a pass from Bouchard and beat Jake Oettinger (24 saves on the day) going high blocker side for his second goal of the game.

In the third period, Zach Hyman entered the scoring with his first and second goals of the series, first going top shelf against Oettinger at 3:25 after a pass from Nugent-Hopkins, then tipping a shot from Evander Kane between Oettinger’s pads at 12:06.

Hyman was a heavy scorer in last year’s postseason but this year has been big on physicality. He currently leads the league with 109 hits.

McDavid said it’s been fun having a “front row” seat to Hyman’s hard-hitting play.

A final goal from John Klingberg assisted by Leon Draisaitl and Kane was the nail in the coffin for Game 3.

After the game DeBoer said there was nothing to get emotional about with Sunday’s loss, and that the team competed well, especially in the second period.

“I liked our compete,” he said. “I liked a lot of parts of our game, and we’ve got to build on that. Hopefully we get Roope Hintz back, and get back in the series.”

Hintz, who was injured earlier in the series, skated in warm-ups but didn’t play on Sunday.

The puck drops on Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET for Game 4 at Rogers Place.