That 1st period was brutal to watch… it was like Ottawa had 7 forwards forechecking, they were out hustling, out checking, out battling, the Stars Dmen. The Stars have to learn when a team is sending 3 guys on one side to crash the boards, it might be a good idea to go the other way?
I was worried that the Dallas Stars might never win a game in Ottawa again. They’re falling back to last season’s habit of starting games slowly and getting better as the game wears on. It’s a good habit. An even better habit would be to start their games better, too. But I will take a point in Ottawa any day of the week and twice on Tuesdays.
<quote>Because after falling behind 2-0 for what feels like the 20th time in 17 games (gonna check the math on that)</quote>
Just for grins, I checked the math. I checked for falling behind by 2 (15 times in 17 games). We have fallen behind 2-0 7 times though which also ain't great.
Great article per usual! One edit needed though, Robertson carried the puck behind the goal in OT before the game winner, not Hintz
Ack, thank you. I knew that cognitively, but I wrote it, uh, wrongly.
That 1st period was brutal to watch… it was like Ottawa had 7 forwards forechecking, they were out hustling, out checking, out battling, the Stars Dmen. The Stars have to learn when a team is sending 3 guys on one side to crash the boards, it might be a good idea to go the other way?
I was worried that the Dallas Stars might never win a game in Ottawa again. They’re falling back to last season’s habit of starting games slowly and getting better as the game wears on. It’s a good habit. An even better habit would be to start their games better, too. But I will take a point in Ottawa any day of the week and twice on Tuesdays.
<quote>Because after falling behind 2-0 for what feels like the 20th time in 17 games (gonna check the math on that)</quote>
Just for grins, I checked the math. I checked for falling behind by 2 (15 times in 17 games). We have fallen behind 2-0 7 times though which also ain't great.
20251016 VAN - 2-4
20251016 VAN - 3-5
20251018 STL - 0-2
20251018 STL - 1-3
20251021 CBJ - 0-2
20251021 CBJ - 1-3
20251025 CAR - 0-2
20251026 NAS - 0-2
20251101 FLA - 0-2
20251104 EDM - 0-2
20251104 EDM - 1-3
20251106 ANA - 3-5
20251106 ANA - 4-6
20251106 ANA - 5-7
20251111 OTT - 0-2
That’s incredible. My hunch is that probably, they would prefer not to keep doing that! Also, they explicitly said that.