Stars-Blackhawks thoughts
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Well, that was a fairly wild game. Highly entertaining too. That Stephane Robidas wacky bounce goal will be on the highlight reels for sometime.
It was a good bounce back effort by the Stars following Friday’s dismal showing against the Bruins. They didn’t get off to a good start Saturday. Chicago dictated a lot of the play, but Alex Auld was very good in the first period and kept them in the game. Things turned around early in the second, they got a couple goals and the Blackhawks could never recover, in part, because Cristobal Huet couldn’t stop a puck when he needed to. The big difference in this game was goaltending. The Stars got it and the Blackhawks didn’t.
Overall, I thought this was a pretty good game for the Stars. They were under the gun in the first, but played well in the second and third periods. Besides Auld, the penalty killing was very good. It went 4-4 against a team with a good power play and a lot of talent at both forward and on the blue line. They are now 8-9 on the PK over the last three games, so may be things are turning around here.
Mark Fistric played forward and did well, picking up an assist on the Toby Petersen goal that made it 3-1.
Including his helper, the defensemen had five assists in the game. They only had seven in the first six games.
These were two big tests this weekend with Boston and Chicago. They failed against the Bruins, who lost in Phoenix 4-1 Saturday by the way, but came out on top in a pretty hard fought game with Blackhawks, one of the better teams in the West even with their goaltending issues.
Here are the highlights:
