Sleepwalking through a Pacific Division road trip finally came back to bite the Dallas Stars in a loss to the Seattle Kraken on Saturday night. It’s not like Dallas didn’t have their chances, but they didn’t take advantage of their opportunities, and a succession of breakaways and odd-man rushes finally overwhelmed Jake Oettinger.
It was the Stars’ third game in four days, including travel, and the team came out with little energy and dead legs. Alexander Radulov drew the press box straw, so Joel Kiviranta returned to the lineup, but didn’t get much time to demonstrate that he deserves more than this single game.