Thanks to a slew of absences from the Dallas Stars’ forward group, Riley Damiani made his NHL debut tonight against the St. Louis Blues. He even opened up the scoring in the second period with his first career NHL goal. The Stars followed that by immediately giving up a goal to Colton Parayko, the first of four unanswered in route to a 4-1 loss.
For the first forty minutes, the game was very close, both on the shot clock and the scoreboard as Jake Oettinger and Charlie Lindgren put on a goaltending clinic. But then the third period happened — just two minutes in, Justin Faulk sniped one past Oettinger, giving St.