Western Conference Final
Dallas Stars at Vegas Golden Knights
Game 5 – 8:00 PM ET

REFEREES
  Wes McCauley #4
 Dan O’Rourke #9
Last Game CAR/FLA Game 4 CAR/FLA Game 4
Games ’22-23 (Reg/PO) 75 | 12 61 | 11
Career Games (Reg/PO) 1292 | 198 1382 | 183
First NHL Game 1/20/03 10/2/99
First Playoff Game 4/12/07 4/11/07
Birthplace Georgetown, ON Calgary, AB
Goals/Gm (Reg/PO) 6.1 (34) | 6.6 (7) 5.9 (43) | 5.7 (12)
PP Opp/Gm (Reg/PO) 5.3 (40) | 6.3 (10) 6.0 (27) | 5.3 (17)
PPG/Gm (Reg/PO) 0.9 (42) | 1.8 (6) 1.3 (29) | 1.0 (14)
Penl/Gm (Reg/PO) 6.6 (40) | 7.9 (14) 7.5 (25) | 7.3 (16)
PIM/Gm (Reg/PO) 15.3 (41) | 25.5 (9) 18.8 (20) | 24.0 (11)
% of Penl on Home 48.9% (36) | 54.8% (4) 49.5% (19) | 50.4% (12)
% PP Opp for Home 53.0% (7) | 46.4% (19) 51.4% (23) | 52.8% (14)
Penl Diff.* (Reg/PO) 1.4 (17) | 1.5 (7) 1.3 (24) | 0.5 (19)
Home Win % (Reg/PO) 58% (23) | 45% (12) 77% (2) | 50% (5)
Home Rec. (Reg/PO) 38-26-11 | 5-6 45-12-4 | 5-5
OT/SO Games 33.3% (2) 29.5% (6)
Team Records 22-23 21-22 20-21 22-23 21-22 20-21
DAL 4-0-0 5-1 3-2 4-2-0 4-3 1-7
VGK 2-1-1 2-4 2-1 1-2-2 3-4 4-1
 

 
LINESMEN
  Bevan Mills #53
 Brad Kovachik #71
Games ’22-23 74 / 12 69 / 10
Career Games (Reg/PO) 368 / 22 1764 / 197
First NHL Game 11/29/16 10/10/96
First Playoff Game 5/16/21 4/14/01
Birthplace Surrey, BC Woodstock, ON

 

McCauley and O’Rourke are back from Game 2 of this series, only with a new set of linesmen. This pairing is coming off a series elimination, having worked Game 4 between the Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers.

Refs Wes McCauley and Dan O’Rourke are working together for the seventh time this postseason, having handled NJD/CAR Game 1, TOR/FLA Game 3, SEA/DAL Game 5 (DAL W 5-2), and VGK/EDM Game 6 (VGK W 5-2 Series Win) in Round 2, along with DAL/VGK Game 2 (VGK W 3-2) and CAR/FLA Game 4 in the Conference Finals.

McCauley started the playoffs alongside Frederick L’Ecuyer for TBL/TOR Game 1, NYR/NJD Game 2, CAR/NYI Game 4, FLA/BOS Game 5, and EDM/LAK Game 6.  McCauley also covered NYR/NJD Game 7 with Gord Dwyer.

O’Rourke was previously paired with ref T.J. Luxmore; the duo worked MIN/DAL Game 1 (DAL L 2-3 OT), CAR/NYI Game 3, BOS/FLA Game 4, SEA/COL Game 5, and TOR/TBL Game 6.   

This is the most experienced ref pairing of the round, with McCauley (198) and O’Rourke (183) trailing only Kelly Sutherland (227) in playoff games worked among active referees.

 

Series Officiating Supervisor: Don Van Massenhoven
Standby Officials: Trevor Hanson, Kiel Murchison

 

 

  * Numbers in orange represent ref’s ranking among active officials.
 
* Penalty Differential represents the absolute value of the variance of penalty calls by team per game. If Team A takes two more penalties (or two fewer) than Team B, this is a 2  Lower numbers indicate less variance between total penalties in a game – that is, a closer number of calls for both teams.  

 
Playoff stats updated through May 24.  Regular season stats have been updated through the end of the 2022-23 regular season. 
 

The officials working the Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Finals:

NHL Referees and Linesmen for 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Finals