What can you say about the game that delivered the Dallas Stars’ first back-to-back victory of the season? It started quietly enough, but it escalated – not quickly, but insistently, and in some wild (and wildly entertaining) ways.
Let’s take a look.
First period
It was a slow start for both teams, with a big clanger by the Big Rig, Jamie Oleksiak, as the most exciting moment of the first six minutes. An innocuous shot by Alex Goligoski nearly turned into the first goal of the game during minute seven, but a long stretch and flick of the wrist by John Klingberg kept the puck out of Kari Lehtonen’s net.