The Stars more or less stole a point from the Kings the other night after Jason Spezza beat Peter Budaj—there’s a sentence you would not have believed in 2013—to force that ill-fated overtime. Dallas then promptly waited around for a tired Columbus team to stumble into victory, and that is precisely what happened. It was a weird couple of games, but it was nothing near as a weird as Tuesday should have been.
Names that were actually playing for the Stars tonight: Gemel Smith, Curtis McKenzie, Brett Ritchie, Lauri Korpikoski, Devin Shore, and Justin Dowling. (It almost makes Adam Cracknell seem like Jaromir Jagr, doesn’t it?