Afterwords: Two Vital Points Earned the Hard-but-Dramatic Way

Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty ImagesHow ‘bout from now on

You write the script

I’ll read the lines

So, here we go

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The Stars needed these two points as badly as they’ve needed points all year. The fact that that’s the case in game 64 is, sadly, not unfamiliar to Dallas Stars fans. But perhaps slightly less familiar was the result of this game: Success, eventually.

After Montgomery’s criticism of their effort at morning skate, how did the Stars come out? They came out, ah, like a group of vitamin-deficient iguanas, which is to say not superbly. One wondered if the absences of Jamie Benn and Andrew Cogliano might give them at least an initial spark, but the opposite really proved to be the case.…