Saturday night’s game between the Dallas Stars and Minnesota Wild had a lot of similarities with the Stars’ season up to this point: a roller coaster of heart-crushing emotion.
In the first 12:45 of the first period, the Stars were in arguably their biggest rut in years. Nothing was going right. Antti Niemi gave up three goals on two shots (somehow), the Stars’ defense was in shambles, and the offense could not put together any decent rush.
Then things started going back up to ground level. Antoine Roussel, Jiri Hudler, and Tyler Seguin all scored goals for Dallas in a matter of 6:13 and quickly wheeled the Stars back within one goal of one of the league’s hottest teams.