12 minutes. That’s how many penalty minutes were handed out after the final horn had sounded on Feb. 21 in a matchup between the Dallas Stars and Anaheim Ducks. If you were watching the game, you may be surprised that there weren’t more.
Penalty minutes after a game? What kind of event constitutes something as crazy as that? Well, two teams that really dislike each other can usually find a way to make it happen. That’s what we saw between the Stars and Ducks.
Dating back to the days as rivals in the Pacific Division and coming to a climax in the first round of the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Dallas and Anaheim have been butting heads for a while.