Last season Dallas owned Chicago throughout the regular season. This season...well...there's no reason to belabor the obvious when it comes to the Stars 2016-2017 season. Despite the surprise of Dallas finally surviving overtime and getting into the shootout, Chicago swept the five game series in the end thanks to Kane and Panarin doing Kane and Panarin things.
It was strange seeing Oduya back in red and black. Perhas not as strange as seeing Antoine Roussel absent from annoying Blackhawks fans and players alike.
Act I
The game began with a relatively deliberate pace; the kind of tempo you expect from a team going through the motions of trying to enter the playoffs healthy versus a team going through the motions of prepping for golf.