Stop me if you’ve heard this before — the Dallas Stars had penalty troubles last night.
A lack of discipline has been a running theme this postseason, and it was no different in their Game 2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Stars gave the Lightning three power play opportunities in the first period, two of which led to goals against:
“That’s where we lost the game today. We don’t want to take penalties,” Mattias Janmark said. “We have taken way too many throughout the playoffs, but when we get them, we’ve just got to go out and kill them.