The Dallas Stars defeated the St. Louis Blues, 6-2, in their first match-up at the American Airlines Center since being eliminated from the playoffs last spring.
Recap
The first period saw the Dallas Stars taking a lot of offensive chances, but ended with the two teams tied, 0-0.
Patrick Eaves scored off of a deflection in front of St. Louis’ Jake Allen to take a 1-0 lead. St. Louis then tied the game at 11:26 of the period. John Klingberg, however, tallied a goal fewer than 20 seconds later after a beautiful feed from Jamie Benn to restore the one-goal lead.