The Dallas Stars are playing with a figurative arm tied behind their figurative back. We know this, rationally. We’ve told ourselves it’s OK to lower our expectations for now.
But it still stings when they don’t sweep a home-and-home, especially in the Murderous Central, where every two points is more like three. It was too much of everything and not enough of anything in MTS Centre tonight, but we’ve lived through this before.
It didn’t take long for the Jets to assert themselves in their own house: 15 seconds into the first, Tyler Myers blasted a shot through Antti Niemi.