For roughly 40 minutes there, it looked like Game 5 was going to go the same way as the four before it.
The base ingredients were all there: Dallas was once again clogging up the Colorado Avalanche, not giving them any breathing room at 5-on-5, while simultaneously putting continuous pressure on Alexandar Georgiev. Jake Oettinger was shrugging aside most of everything that was sent his way, and when the Stars scored, you couldn’t help but feel it was the game winner.
And then, for the second consecutive home game, Dallas gave up three goals to the Avalanche in the third period.