Heading into last night, whichever team scored first between the Dallas Stars and the Calgary Flames went on to win the game. But thanks to a late game collapse by the Stars, that streak was broken in Game 5:
“They took it to another level, and we didn’t handle it very well,” Stars coach Rick Bowness said. “We stayed with them for two periods, obviously. They cranked it up in the third period... they went up here, and we just kind of stayed here. We just couldn’t get going.”
A running theme all season long, the Stars’ failure to not play hard the full 60 minutes put them down 3-2 in the series.