Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Dallas Stars have an abysmal first period. Pretty familiar by this point in the season, eh? Thankfully, our story doesn’t actually end at a 4-1 loss. No, we actually managed to tie it late in the third with four unanswered goals, one of them a power play goal, and some very successful (finally) penalty killing.
What we couldn’t do was win, or even hold it even for the overtime point. Instead, the Stars wasted a 4-0 rally on a regulation loss on home ice against division rivals. And so goes the season.