Well that was not ideal. The Dallas Stars dropped a disappointing 5-2 loss to the Nashville Predators at home on Tuesday night. With their hot streak now extinguished, let’s take a look at just where Dallas went wrong.
The Dallas Stars didn’t look like themselves on Tuesday night. Or maybe they did, and the team we’ve seen playing in Victory Green for the past ten days was the impostor.
Either way, the Stars looked incredibly different last night.
Dallas welcomed the Nashville Predators to the American Airlines Center on Tuesday in hopes of writing another epic chapter in their exciting 2017-18 book. The Stars had won seven of their last eight games, including the most recent five in a row, and done some wondrous things against Central Division teams while ON THE ROAD.
They looked like a complete hockey team. Their offense and defense were structured and using depth to their advantage, and Ben Bishop and Kari Lehtonen were providing a solid duo in the crease. The Stars looked altogether indestructible.
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And then Tuesday night happened, and all of the hype built up over the past ten days vanished into thin air. Dallas was skunked 5-2 by the Predators, who continued a hot hot streak of their own in the process, and fell back into a pit of questions.
Why had the Stars crumpled so easily? Was the five-game streak just a simple fluke? Are the Stars on their way back down the totem pole after this brief visit to the playoff picture?
With 28 games in the rearview mirror, Dallas sits at a record of 16-11-1. That’s respectable, no doubt. They are still in sole possession of the first wild card spot, but must figure out what’s going so terribly wrong and figure it out soon. Like, 30 hours soon.
The Dallas Stars will be back on the road tomorrow night to square off with the third best team in the Central, the St. Louis Blues. It will be yet another “measuring stick game” in which the Stars match up against a team that has been consistently good all season long.
But before that game arrives, the Stars have a lot to digest from Tuesday night. What all came out of the game against Nashville that could have a lasting effect on the season overall? Let’s take a look at a few of the things that stuck out throughout the 60 minutes.