In the end, it looked easy – at least for Miro Heiskanen. The Dallas Stars took a 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators in their own arena, a win that may turn out to be much bigger than the final score might suggest. And they had their rookie blueline prodigy to thank for much of it.
Sean Shapiro takes stock of how Heiskanen’s rookie season has presaged this moment in his after-action report for The Athletic:
He didn’t worry about the moment, he played the game just like he played any other game in his life, and just like any other game in his life he was pretty damn good at it.