*Dallas lost to Colorado 4-0; you can thank the NFC Championship game for no review on that one. I recorded it and intended to watch it, but while viewing it on a commercial in the football game, I witnessed the third Avalanche goal, which led me to say "Yeah...I'm not watching this." Basically, Colorado iced the puck, the ref is yelling "icing", the puck hits said ref, Colorado get that puck, and scores on what I think was a 3 on 2. This play seemed to summarize how the night went for our team.*
Alright now for the good game. Dallas beats Calgary 4-3 in a shoot-out (1-0). The Stars opened the scoring with Modano rifling a shot past Miikka Kiprusoff, but the Flames netted two on an extended power-play resulting after the Fistric-Nystrom fight. Normally fight balance out, but during the fight, Fistric pulled off Nystrom's helmet, held onto the helmet, and hit Nystrom with his own helmet. Fun for the fans, but the NHL doesn't laugh over things like that. I don't think it was meant to be dirty (it was listed as a "Match Penalty for Attempting to Injure) but regardless, it happened. (My guess is it got stuck on his hand or between his fingers.) Clearly our penalty kill isn't holding up, and a third goal was added in the second, but Auld looked pretty good and Neal pushed the momentum back in our direction with a deflection in the last minute of the second period. Brad Richards completed the comeback with a power-play tally in the third, by hammering a shot off a Calgary player and in. Modano and Richards missed their shots, Auld made three saves, and Eriksson won it. Overall a great game, and Dallas continues their home ice dominance. I was hoping to go to the game tomorrow night, but work calls. Everyone else should go though.
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Fun fact about the Colorado game: That was the 100th meeting of these two teams even when they were in Quebec and Minnesota and old man Modano has played in 64 of them. The Calgary game was great, lots of good hits. We did a good job of coming back from a 3-1 deficit we just need to work on the penalty kill. So far in the games he's played in I think Auld has been pretty good and if he's the new starter what are we going to do with Turco do we try to trade him or have him play backup crappily the rest of the season?
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wow thats crazy to think hes been in so many of the games between the franchises. does that count post season too, because if so that would make a little more sense since they had so many playoff series in the 90s and 2000s. id say keep turco as a backup since (usually) when he comes back from a few days off he plays well. of course hes the kind of goalie that plays better with constant action; if the stars keep the pressure in the offensive zone and seldom bring him into it, he tends to blow it. then again, he hasnt been doing good either way this year.
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