Last Tuesday’s game over the Los Angeles Kings was the Dallas Stars’ first game since losing Jake Oettinger to a mysterious lower body injury. In years past, surviving without the team’s top goaltender might have warranted miraculous backup goaltending from Scott Wedgewood while eking out a one-goal win. Instead, the Stars won handedly 5-2, thanks to their much improved offense this year:
Last year alone saw the Stars score a good 35 goals fewer than expected given the chances they generated... this year’s Stars are actually scoring goals they should score, and isn’t that nice?