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Afterwords: It’s What You (Don’t) Makar of It

I’ve been sitting here so long

Wasting time, just staring at the phone

And I was wondering should I call you

Then I thought, maybe you’re not alone

It was in that first goal, or the lead up to it, that I think I started to really believe the Stars could win this series in the five games I predicted.

John Klingberg, for so long this season a point of mysterious but justified concern, discarded Nazem Kadri’s forecheck like so much hockey detritus, and ended his rush by similarly ignoring Cale Makar’s paltry defensive efforts to stuff the puck into the net.