After rolling through the beginning of February and building a 6-1-1 streak, the Dallas Stars laid a ghastly 6-0 egg in Tampa, Florida on Thursday night.
Going up against the league’s best team, the Stars couldn’t muster up any sort of scoring and had each one of their mistakes brutally capitalized upon by the Lightning. And though Dallas put up a fight and seemed to generate some momentum at certain points, the writing was on the wall midway through the first period. From there, it only got worse.
And just like that, the Dallas Stars are back in the thick of the wild card race in the Western Conference.