In what is a pretty apt summary of the season thus far, the Dallas Stars got off to a slow start, kept trying and trying to keep things under control and yet couldn’t quite turn things around even though the underlying numbers looked promising in their late 4-3 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday to start off a three-game road trip.
The Stars opened the scoring after a great Jordie Benn breakout pass got Lauri Korpikoski in behind the Blues defense, but it was the Blues who really owned the game in the first period.