At the end of the second, this looked like a tight one, but the Texas Stars turned it on in the third period to win going away. It was a 5-2 final over the visiting Penguins, and Tanner Kero scored his second pro hat trick in the affair. Kero had a slow start to the year but has come on with goals in the past two games and five total on the season.
"Definitely a slow start personally," he said. "[We're] just playing better as a group, and the personal success is going to come as the group starts playing better so it's been a good little run here and we want to keep going with it.