Sometimes in the NHL, it just isn’t a hockey team’s night. In other words, no matter what a hockey team does in a game, they never seem destined to win it. And on Friday in Chicago, it just wasn’t the Dallas Stars‘ night.
With four of their regular starters staying behind in Dallas and another two being scratched from the lineup, the Stars took on the Chicago Blackhawks with a significantly different look. No Jamie Benn, Mats Zuccarello, Valeri Nichushkin, or Andrew Cogliano. No Roman Polak or Ben Bishop in the backend.