Tight checking and low scoring. That’s the way that the Dallas Stars’ second round series against the St. Louis Blues has been billed, and Game 1 lived up to the hype. At least, it did until the Blues took a two-goal lead.
At that point, the Stars flipped the ice and started throwing pucks at Jordan Binnington with regularity. Ultimately, that didn’t work out, but it made all of the advanced stats tilt the Stars’ way.
The question for Game 2 is whether the offensive pressure that Dallas brought in the third period was score effects or whether the Stars found their legs in this new series.