The Vegas Golden Knights lost to a desperate team that had its best players show up to make sure the season didn't end in front of a hometown crowd.

"There's always things we'll look at, our breakout executions and support, getting to our areas, but they're a good team too," Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. "They have good players. Their top players finished plays for them. When that happens, good things happen for your team."

It did for the Dallas Stars in Game 4 of the Western Conference Final on Thursday.

Jason Robertson scored two game-tying goals in regulation, one on the power play and one at 5-on-5, and the Stars got a power-play goal from Joe Pavelski 3:18 into overtime to secure a 3-2 win at American Airlines Center

"I thought they were way better today," Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault said. "We're trying to play the right way, but their desperation was a little higher than ours. At this time of the year, it's not about X's and O's, it's about who wants it more and I thought they wanted it more than us tonight."