While Kari Lehtonen was snatching up pucks and taking names, and while Adam Cracknell was making us all forget he hasn’t been in victory green his whole career, the Dallas Stars were able to do something that we may have forgotten the Stars can do when they try, and can do well: play a full sixty minutes of hockey at the same high-speed velocity.
The entire game felt neck and neck, and some moments felt downright desperate. But there was never a point when the Dallas Stars trailed, or even seemed that lost.