Stars Game 4 - The Big Boys Gotta Score

Dallas is up 2-1 in their opening round series with Colorado with grit, guile, and goaltending. Now it's time for the goal scorers to score.

Tyler Seguin’s Game 2 OT winner has Dallas up 2-1 in the series

It’s this time in any series, when the pundits load and deploy the word “stranglehold”, which has come to mean a 3-1 series lead. Try it as a drinking game the next couple days. Whenever you see a story about a 2-1 team looking to go - or extend their lead to 3 -1 - it’s usually accompanied by the term.

The Dallas Stars, seemingly on the brink just a few days ago, are in fact, looking to take a 3-1 “stranglehold” on the series, with a Game 4 win tonight in Denver over the Avalanche.

My bit for the post-season is doing these “PRE STARS of the GAME” - naming 3 Dallas Stars who have to be good for the Stars to win the game.

I’ve done well so far. In the Game 2 win, I had Jamie Benn, Jake Oettinger, and Wyatt (5 shots on goal) Johnston. Benn took the game over - Otter stopped 16 in the 3rd and OT to get the win, and Wyatt was all over it.

In Game 3 - I offered that a -2 wouldn’t sit well with Esa Lindell. It didn’t. The PK, Esa’s baby, turned back 6 Avalanche power plays, and Lindell saved a goal with his glove in the OT moments before Tyler Seguin ended the game. Lindell, was my #3 PRE STAR. Otter was 2 - boy was he - and I had Mikko Rantanen as my number 1 Star. Mikko’s impact on the game was substantial.

And now - here’s who has to cash for Dallas to get the “stranglehold”.

Let’s GO!!