High-Event Oilers Swing Through Dallas

Sometimes you have to throw the analytics out. If you look at the shooting metrics for the Dallas Stars in their Saturday night victory over the Nashville Predators, you’d have to conclude that the Predators blew out the Stars. Some of that could be attributed to score effects, but the shot-share dominance really happened over all three periods.

Watching the game, however, there was never really a feeling that Nashville was in control of anything. Power play excepted, Dallas appeared to get the shots that they wanted, and after Blake Comeau buried his shorthanded wrister coming down the wing, the Stars never seemed to lose control of the game.