The Dallas Stars came home from the Windy City with literally nothing to show for Game 81 – including a locked-in first wild-card spot. Did their apparent psychotic break against the Chicago Blackhawks happen because they forgot who they were? Stars senior staff write Mike Heika examined the case, and what he found explains a lot, I don’t care who you are.
Head coach Jim Montgomery suggests that the game got away because the Stars were trying to be too clever:
“I didn’t like the way we played,” [Montgomery] said.