The Dallas Stars looked a little better in Thursday’s game against the Minnesota Wild, showing signs of a transition game and even picking up a little bit of offense in the crease against the stingy Wild defense.
But it wasn’t enough, as a bad break, a bad read and some bad tactics let the Wild get three goals against and continue to sink the Stars dim playoff hopes in a 3-1 loss.
While the Stars had the better of the play early in the first period, opening up an early 8-1 lead in shots, it was the Wild that opened the scoring on a power play drawn on an extremely soft goalie interference call on Curtis McKenzie.