Maybe Dallas Stars hockey was too busy fighting cancer Saturday night to fight the Columbus Blue Jackets.
A touching evening began with Dave Strader's son singing the National Anthem, followed by tributes from national hockey media stalwarts peppering the video board throughout, punctuated by a tear-jerker video from Strader himself.
The product on the ice evoked, err, different emotions.
Columbus mucked things up as much as they were able under the tutelage of John Tortorella, whose stylings you may remember from such films as the 2016 USA national team that went to the World Cup. Dallas won the possession battle, but mustered little in the way of what Lindy calls 'A' chances, meandering their way to a 3-0 loss at American Airlines Center.