For perhaps the first time this season, the Dallas Stars were in complete control of a hockey game for the full 60 minutes.
Dallas came out sizzling against the Florida Panthers, scoring less than four minutes in and absolutely peppering Sergei Bobrovsky for the first nine minutes. They later extended their lead to 3-0 in the second, and when they finally got scored on, it was from an odd “fly puck” on a powerplay that was more unfortunate than anything. The Panthers, as is expected of them, were taking penalties left and right, and yet Dallas never seemed to be rattled by their physical and aggressive approach to the game.