Well, that was bad. Yes, there were some “fluky-[donkey] goals,” as Jake Allen called Dallas’s tallies against St. Louis, but this wasn’t just an “aw shucks” sort of hard luck outing, and we all know it. You can get the particulars from Ann’s recap, or perhaps from your visual memory, should you be so unlucky as to have witnessed that entire thing firsthand.
Either way, we’re not here to nitpick an implosion. The San Jose Sharks got some of the bounces (and all of the power plays) in this one, but the Stars were just absent for too much of this one, in too many ways, starting with Tyler Seguin’s ugly giveaway in the slot and ending with a classic “Kari never saw it” goal from distance.