SUNRISE, Fla. -- Stars coach Ken Hitchcock didn't exactly get the full 60-minute effort that he urged his team to give him in a meeting Tuesday morning.
Although he received an herculean effort in the middle 20, when the Stars outshot Florida 18-4, it wasn't enough to compensate for a parade to the penalty box in the other two periods which resulted in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Eastern Conference bottom-feeding Panthers at a sparsely attended BB&T Center.
The Stars' top-line, 1-2 punch of Alexander Radulov and Jamie Benn combined on Dallas' first two goals, and rookie Remi Elie, reinserted in the lineup after a healthy scratch, gave the Stars a 3-2 lead after two.