For 82 games, the Stars performed like a hockey team poised to play into June. Somehow they went into Sunday night’s game in St. Paul wondering if they would even make it to the last day in April.
I suppose, technically speaking, the Stars still don’t know that their season will make it to a home Game 7 next Sunday. But at least they survived Game 4 on the road, winning 3-2 Sunday night by getting a particular performance that was taken for granted before this first-round series began.
To tie the series at 2-2, Dallas needed Jake Oettinger to outplay Filip Gustavsson. Was that such a difficult hill to climb?
