The Blackhawks opened their six-game homestead with back-to-back losses, including a 1-0 defeat in overtime to the Dallas Stars on Friday night.
There isn’t much to say about the first 20 minutes of the game except that, technically, hockey was played.
Things started to heat up in the second period — at least, for Marc-André Fleury, as he and his posts put in some strong work to keep the Stars off the board. Although there were several highlight-reel worthy saves, the best of the bunch was when Fleury robbed Roope Hintz so hard that the Stars forward will be seeing that steal in his nightmares:
And as always, Fleury took a moment to praise and thank his hardest working teammates:
The third period turned tepid again.