The first game of the Western Conference Final saw a return of Dallas Stars hockey. Unfortunately, so did the second game. If the Vegas Golden Knights were “tired” in the opener, the Stars spent most of Tuesday night’s game “disinterested”.
The expectation was that Dallas would need to survive a Vegas onslaught to start the game. Sure, the Golden Knights were better, and Anton Khudobin was there to clean up anything remotely dangerous, but the story of the first period was not Vegas on their toes, it was Dallas on their heels.