The first period was the tamest of the game for sure, with both teams working hard but still succumbing to some slowness and turnovers. Brett Ritchie, however, was the first to make his mark with the first of many scrappy, hard-earned goals of this game.
Tyler Seguin was the next to make the Stars a viable net-front terror when he chipped it up and over the Kings’ tender halfway through the second period. Nick Shore answered that goal soon after in a shorthanded effort on a Stars power play that lasted all of thirty seconds.