WASHINGTON -- Overtime hockey is a rush, a 3-on-3 concoction of the best players, overflowing skill and a surplus of open ice. It's fun and nerve-racking and exciting and gut-punching and back-and-forth and final. It's the sport at its fastest, with heightened stakes and the knowledge that the smallest mistake can lose a game.
During the Stars' 4-3 overtime win over the Capitals on Saturday night in Washington, it was sublime, ending with Jason Dickinson's game-winner 3:17 into the frame to hand the Stars their third straight victory.
"That what great entertainment and that's why the NHL's a great league," Stars coach Jim Montgomery said.