After caught by the seven-game strips, the Dallas Stars will reappear against Minnesota Wild in Saint Paul, Minnes on Sunday afternoon.
The stars (50-22-4, 104 points) look after a 5: 3 decision at home against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday afternoon. Dallas lives four points behind the first Winnipeg jets in the central division.
“We left some good players in some really good places and they benefited from it,” said goalkeeper Casey Desmith. “We try to catch Winnipeg and you don’t lose many games. So every loss we have is a little more. We don’t have much time by the end of the year to catch them. Hopefully it is a learning experience. Just let yourself be better in playoffs.”
Evgenii Dadonov recorded his second career -hats trick to take all three goals into account, and Desmith scored 35 parades.
The penguins broke a 3-3 draw with 1:43 on Blake Lizotte Tor after the defender of Dallas Thomas Harley and Cody Ceci collided in their own zone.
“This act hurt. So that (Desmith) play such an incredible game and give it away as I did, it is hard,” said Harley. “I tried to exceed your F1, he got a body on me. I lost the puck because I just wanted to take it and group it again. Then I ran and Ceci on each other. A lack of communication about this and then I play the 2-to-1 (bad). My job is to take the pass away and I have it.”
The wild (41-29-7, 89 points) returns home after a victory three game road trip (0-1-2). After a 3-1 setback against the host New York Islanders, they lost four in a row on Friday evening.
Minnesota clings to the second wildcard spot in the Western Conference.
“We go to this road trip and don’t win a game,” said Wild head coach John Hynes. “We go to a shootout and work at overtime … … I think the boys should be disappointed with the urgency, competitiveness, the execution and energy to play in a game like this.
“I mean, don’t let us talk about being on the radio and to feel like ourselves. This was a game that we knew that we had four out of six points (on the journey with a win). We did not have the required level of intensity, the attention to detail, so there is no reason to calm ourselves.
Mint Zuccarello gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead of 1:42 in the second period before the islanders answered 36 seconds later. New York led 2-1 under two minutes later.
“I don’t really have much to say,” said Zuccarello. “I’m so sick and tired of standing here and telling you and telling you. I’m sorry, but it’s just not good enough … it (stinks) that you score immediately.”
The wild defender Jake Middleton left the game after he was sent to the boards by New York Bo Horvat with 8:56 in the second period and did not return.
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