Jack Campbell had served as backup goalie at American Airlines Center, and that was as he began to patch his career back together through heavy periods of doubt, negated by hard work. He didn’t look at the crowd in the pregame skate. He doesn’t anyway.
“For sure, everybody in hockey knows my story, and how it didn’t work out here,” Campbell said. “They wanted it for me. It’s such a great group. But I just wanted a win because we needed it.”
Campbell got closure on that part of his career — six years in the Stars organization as a struggling former first-round draft pick — and he closed the door on Dallas with 29 saves.