Remember the last time the Carolina Hurricanes played the Dallas Stars in American Airlines Center? The Stars went up 5-1 before giving Carolina four goals to tie it in the third, but then Patrick Sharp won the game for the home side with 20 seconds left. The comeback showed plenty of heart for the young Canes team and was a key jumping-off point for the rest of the season.
Yeah, that didn’t happen yesterday.
Carolina was outperformed in every facet of the game during yesterday’s matinee. Dallas played the same way, once again putting up five goals—three of which coming before the Hurricanes managed to shrug off whatever funk they found themselves in for the first half of the first period.