Starting with the national broadcast on NBC, and propagating through other media, a rested Dallas Stars pushed around a tired Vegas Golden Knights team on Sunday night. Admittedly, Vegas’ Game 7 triumph was on day two of a back-to-back against the Vancouver Canucks. If Vegas was tired, it was a direct result of the fruitless domination of their cycle game against a Canucks team being held together by wunderkind Elias Pettersson, duct tape, and a heroic Thatcher Demko.
Sometimes teams come out flat. Stars fans have suffered through that as much as most others.