Sometimes, the scoreboard can lie. It can tell the story of fortunate bounces or a glut of time shorthanded. Sometimes, the scoreboard doesn’t care about your line combinations or your faceoff plays or your forecheck.
During the Stars’ now extinct four-game losing streak that ended with Tuesday night’s 2-0 win over Calgary, sometimes the scoreboard lied. It hid a pretty evenly played game in San Jose in which Dallas exited pointless. It couldn’t disguise the inconsistency of a horrid first period followed by two strong ones in Colorado.
The refrain from the Stars players and coaching staff was simple: “If we play the way we did the last few games, we deserve better results,” Tyler Seguin said following the loss to Colorado.