The first period of Game 5 in St. Louis looked like a violent game of Whack-a-Mole. The St. Louis Blues were hitting everything that moved. I wasn’t able to get the radio feed synchronized, so it was the national broadcast at my house, and you could feel the intense pleasure oozing out of the old school hockey guys reporting on the game.
The problem was, all those hits resulted in zero pucks in the net, and it’s pucks in the net that lead to wins. The Dallas Stars rolled with the body blows, and then spent much of the rest of the night throwing jabs in the guise of rush chances.