The Edmonton Oilers are heading back to the Stanley Cup Final, and they didn’t waste any time making it official.

Edmonton jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first eight minutes of Game 5 and never looked back, knocking out the Dallas Stars with a 6-3 win Thursday night at American Airlines Center. It’s the second straight year the Oilers have ended the Stars’ season in the Western Conference Final.

Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist, and Corey Perry, who turned 40 just two weeks ago, opened the scoring on the power play. Edmonton will now face the Florida Panthers in a rematch of last year’s Final, starting Wednesday in Alberta.

“We’ve been thinking about this since last summer,” McDavid said. “Not just getting back here, but finishing it.”

Perry’s tap-in goal just 2:31 into the game got things rolling, and the Stars unraveled fast. Mattias Janmark beat Jake Oettinger five-hole on a breakaway five minutes later, and less than a minute after that, Jeff Skinner, playing in his first playoff game since April, poked in his first career postseason goal to make it 3-0.

That was it for Oettinger, who got the hook after allowing two goals on two shots. Casey DeSmith came in and held the line as best he could, but Dallas never fully recovered.

Jason Robertson scored twice for the Stars, and Roope Hintz added a power-play goal to cut the deficit to 3-2 in the second. But with the crowd just starting to believe, McDavid snatched the energy right back, taking a blocked shot the other way on a breakaway and finishing through DeSmith’s pads to restore the two-goal lead.

“He’s built for that moment,” Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse said. “Big play, big time.”

Robertson’s second goal early in the third gave Dallas one last push, but Evander Kane answered just three minutes later, banking in a weird-angle shot off a defender. Kasperi Kapanen sealed it with an empty-netter in the final seconds.

The Stars, once again, were left watching another team celebrate in the conference final. It’s the third straight year Dallas has reached this round and fallen short.

“I’m proud of our guys, but we need to be better when we get here,” head coach Pete DeBoer said. “We’ve got to find another level.”

McDavid finished with his 100th career playoff assist, hitting the milestone in just his 90th postseason game, which is the second-fastest in NHL history behind Wayne Gretzky. Perry, meanwhile, now has seven goals this postseason, the most by any player age 39 or older.