The Dallas Stars did what they needed to do Wednesday night at American Airlines Center, guaranteeing at least a return trip home for a sixth game in their Divisional Final series against the St. Louis Blues.
That just ratchets up the stakes for a critical Game 5 in St. Louis tonight. Both teams have demonstrated their own type of physicality throughout the series. For the Blues, it is brute power. For the Stars, it isn’t necessarily a heavy game, but power tempered with speed.
The shenanigans escalated on Wednesday night, with Ben Bishop taking two slashes.