The way it looked as one overtime leaked into the next Tuesday, if the Stars were actually going to beat the Blues in Game 7, Ben Bishop might have to get up out of the bunker he'd built in goal and go do it himself.
As the great Johan Cruyff once argued, "You can't score if you don't shoot."
And thus one of the most intriguing seasons in Stars history came to an end just as it was getting good.
Had Bishop's magnificence enabled the Stars to steal Game 7 and sneak into the Western Conference Final, the offensive ineptitude of the last couple of games might have been dismissed and an unexpected accomplishment duly recognized.