Roughly halfway through last night’s Game 2, I couldn’t help but keep think about the following tweet Micah McCurdy made after the Dallas Stars clinched a playoff spot:
They are so incredibly bad at defending big leads and so incredibly good at chasing down one-goal deficits that they spend nearly all of their time tied, especially late in games. This is why you hear the anguished cries of the justifiably nervous stars fan so very often. pic.twitter.com/T3TI3T6F8I
— Micah Blake McCurdy (@IneffectiveMath) April 28, 2022
Now, we didn’t see that fabled “incredibly good chasing down one goal deficits” performance in Game 1, but the overall sentiment is the same: Dallas spends the majority of their games tied, or at the very least close to it.