One of Dallas’ best wins all season took place this year, where it usually does: at American Airlines Center. It came against a struggling, but still-solid Boston Bruins group. The Stars scored six goals, and allowed only one. “Why can’t they play like all the time?”
How teams play and how they win are not mutually inclusive. Defensively, a team may allow too many shots, or turn the puck over too much, but if their goalie is a brick wall, then it’s unfair to call what the team did “good defense.”
Offense is the same way.