The Dallas Stars had no business walking out of Amalie Arena with so much as a point, let alone two. The Tampa Bay Lightning outshot the Stars 48-20 in what interim head coach Rick Bowness called “the worst game we’ve played in a while.”
Yet the Stars still won, thanks to the inhuman goaltender that is Anton Khudobin. Khudobin only let three of the Lightning’s 48 shots past him, two of which came on the power play. He was clearly the best player on the ice tonight, which makes his exclusion from the game’s three stars downright inexcusable.