DALLAS — After Saturday’s 3-1 loss to the Devils, Stars coach Rick Bowness delivered a clear message to his team.
“If we play like that, we’re going home in three weeks, it’s as simple as that,” Bowness said. “That’s what I told them after the game. We play like that, three weeks from today, we’re going home, if that’s what we want. You can say all the right things all the time. It’s not what you say. It’s what you accept and what you do.”
New Jersey scored twice in the final 1:11 to break a 1-1 tie, denying Dallas any points on an afternoon in which they submitted a subpar performance. Nico Hischier scored the game-winning goal, looping and turning his way around Tyler Seguin towards the net-front and evading Jake Oettinger’s attempted poke check.
