These Stars are not supposed to beat the Kings in overtime. In fact, given both of these teams’ struggles, the Stars aren’t supposed to beat the Kings at all. The Kings are a big, relentless team that dumps pucks, recovers them, and forces their way to scoring areas out of volume more than elite-level playmaking. Even with Anze Kopitar performing a goal-scoring disappearing act this year worse than Jamie Benn’s, these Kings should still be good. And even without Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles can still make goaltenders look great. Peter Budaj is playing amazingly for them, and it is definitively no longer 2008.
Games 1-35 Afterwords: Rare Overtime Win Must Spark Change for Dallas in Second Half of Season
