The Los Angeles Kings came to American Airlines Center on a three-game dry streak. They walked away with their first points of the 2016-17 season, although the Dallas Stars forced them to overtime in the process.
As always, the game got physical and stayed that way, from Antoine Roussel’s 18 PIMs to Alec Martinez’s game-winning goal, which may have been help along with interference on Kari Lehtonen. Injuries to Patrick Sharp and Patrick Eaves further depleted the Stars’ aching forward corps, and it showed, writes Mike Heika:
Los Angeles finished with a 39-20 advantage in shots on goal and created all sorts of problems for a harried Stars team in transition.