Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars trail their first round series 3-2 after falling in Game 5 against the Calgary Flames, and it's the same story for the team from Texas.

Through five games, the Stars have scored eight goals, with four of those coming in Game 3. I give goaltender Jake Oettinger all the credit in the world for the way he has played in these playoffs, but it likely won’t be enough to save his team. The bad news for the Stars is that they only mustered one of those four goals.

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I know it works,” said Stars head coach Rick Bowness, who said it was routinely employed when he was an associate coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2014 to 2018. The difficult part of coaching against it is that you’re going to see more of their top-end guys. Even-strength goals have been a chore for both sides with a combined eight in five games. The trio was a winning combination. Stone banked a combined 20 minutes in the two games he’s played, logged just under five minutes on the power play, and led the Flames in shots on goal in each with eight and four respectively. Up three games to two in the best-of-seven conference quarterfinal, the Flames could close out the series — and advance to the second round of playoffs for just the second time in 17 years — with a Game 6 win in Dallas on Friday.

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A path to success for the Stars in Game 6 is not very clear. Without Oettinger, the Dallas Stars are probably giving up at least three goals a game to this Flames squad. Moreover, the Flames just have a deeper set of offensive tools. The NHL playoffs do a great job of forcing teams to win different ways. Calgary’s sixth-ranked penalty kill has put on a masterful performance this series, using an ultra-aggressive attitude on every puck that has kept the Stars out of their rhythm. Dallas prides itself on waiting for other teams to trip up before pouncing with its counter-attack and the Flames have done a spectacular job defusing any grade-A chances when they did make a mistake.

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A full Saddledome was buzzing, and outside the arena was no different. "In Dallas, everyone's big football fans. This is what we need." Britt Jordan, pictured below, is a Stars fan who moved to Calgary from Dallas in January. For Jordan, the atmosphere around the Flames is a big change from being a hockey fan in Dallas. It gets everyone together, especially after the last few years we've had. With the series tied 2-2, the game was a must win for both sides, and Flames fans came out in large numbers to support their team.