Dallas Stars Take Game 1 in Stanley Cup Finals

In last year’s playoffs the Dallas Stars pushed the eventual champion St. Louis to a Game 7 before losing in overtime to the Cinderella Blues. Perhaps it was a harbinger of things to come for the North Dallas hockey club.

Don’t look now but the Dallas Stars are three wins away from winning their second Stanley Cup in Dallas hockey history. The first coming in 2000 when the Stars defeated the Buffalo Sabres in a Game 6 overtime thriller when if my memory serves me correct Brett Hull scored the game winner.

It’s all about goaltending in playoff hockey. Does your guy in net get hot and make the players in front of him feel invinceable. It’s a beautiful thing to witness when a hockey team feels it can’t lose with their goalie playing out of his mind.

Such was the case again for the opportunistic Stars as Anton Khudobin made 35 saves with 22 of them coming in the third period as the Stars iced Game 1 by a 4-1 count over Tampa.

The Stars first two goals and game winner were scored by defensemen jumping into the play. Every one on this team is chipping in and making plays at just the right time. Every guy at some point pulling his link on the chain.

It’s fun to watch.

Maybe nobody saw this coming, but maybe we who follow hockey should have considering how close the Dallas Stars came to beating the St. Louis Blues in last year’s Western Conference Semi-Finals.

Game 2 tomorrow night inside the Bubble.

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