The score didn’t reflect the effort. That seems to be the consensus, from both the Dallas Stars and those who cover them, about Sunday’s 5-1 road loss to the Winnipeg Jets. Did the team take something they can work with from a pretty meh loss to a really good team?
Matthew DeFranks of The Dallas Morning News examined the Stars’ defeat, as well as the “upbeat” response that may have seemed a little odd out of context. He found that the Victory Green gang may have reason for a little optimism:
They did not play horribly, and the four-goal differential was not indicative of their performance.