“I prefer not to lose the games.” A sentiment all fans and likely the whole of the Stars room could empathize with, vocalized by Jason Spezza after a 7-4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight.
Beating the Toronto Maple Leafs would have been a good way to make the rest of the hockey world sit up and take notice of what Dallas had done in their first two games. Unfortunately, Dallas did not get the chance to write the story that way tonight. “I thought our effort and our emotion was really good,” head coach Jim Montgomery said after the game.