Last night was a classic Dallas Stars win — they were outplayed in the first period, managed to take a one goal lead in the second, and then “turtled” for the entire third period.
But hey, it worked! All thanks to Anton Khudobin:
“We don’t get into overtime without him,” Stars interim coach Rick Bowness said. “He made some huge saves, especially on the penalty kill after we challenged, and so give him a lot of credit tonight. We don’t win it without his play.”
There was a play late in the third period in which Khudobin appeared to injury himself, setting off alarms inside the heads of every Stars’ fan watching, but he says he was fine.