I thought this game was going to end badly a couple of times. The first was John Gibon’s blocker save on Jamie Benn in the second to keep it scoreless. Coming after Niemi’s heroic game to that point (I counted at least five high-caliber stops up ‘til then), it really felt like that would be the Stars’ best chance, and Ducks’ netminder, as so many others have done recently, found a way to come up big against Dallas.
The other moment was Jamie Benn’s penalty to give the Ducks their second minute-long stretch of five-on-three time in the game.