The Dallas Stars entered Saturday night in desperation mode. And when a team is in desperation mode, stuck in a losing skid, and is going up against the best team in their division, there’s a certain sense of adversity that must be overcome.
Sometimes, that can be a very difficult hump to get over, especially for struggling teams. For the Stars, they were riding a four-game losing skid, hadn’t won a game in 11 days, had dropped three straight contests on home ice, and had fallen out of the top three in the Central division standings.