After taking four out of a possible six points in their homestand, the Dallas Stars were on the road tonight in their erstwhile home state for a thrilling in-conference meeting with the Minnesota Wild.
While the Stars are coming off back-to-back 5-2 wins, those games were against two Eastern Conference teams that didn’t present much of a challenge for the struggling Stars. The Wild are on a different level and that was very evident in tonight’s game, the Stars’ first against the Wild since February of 2020.
Another storyline tonight is head coach Rick Bowness’s game-time decision to scratch Minnesota native Riley Tufte, who’d been talking the last few days about how much playing in front of his home crowd meant to him.