In Coach Laxdal's assessment, the Stars "weren't horrible, but weren't great" either. The 3-2 final score certainly didn't tell the complete story of Texas' game this evening. The effort seemed uneven overall.
"The first period we had energy but we were sloppy," noted Laxdal. "In the second and third, we lost that energy."
Texas got clogged up in the neutral zone attempting to execute their breakouts, an effective countermeasure deployed by San Diego to combat the speed game that Texas had used to vault to a 3-0 series lead coming into the game.
Curtis McKenzie, who scored a power play goal, added, "We've had success against this team playing north-south hockey and using speed.