In two games against the St. Louis Blues and one against the Philadelphia Flyers, the Dallas Stars garnered only two points in those three games, against teams chasing to get into the Wild Card picture.
Sometimes teams lose games that they should win, but the disheartening part of the last two losses has been the sheer tedium of it all. Even to the casual observer, the Stars seemed to be going through the motions — 50/50 battles were lost, tape-to-tape passes either missed or bounced off sticks. Neither game was a shutout, but the single goals in each seemed like afterthoughts in an affair already concluded.