Wild and Crazy

Minnesota's backup goaltender Wade Dubielewicz must be a fan of Lost, because his mind was clearly in 1977 instead of 2010. Dallas wins this contest 4-2 with Marty Turco making a season-high 40 saves in his first start since January 24th. I know I've been hard on Turco this season, going on record as saying Auld should be starting. Don't get me wrong, I love Marty as a person, but (and this goes to any and every athlete) if you're getting paid millions of dollars to play a sport, you better perform pretty darn good. And that is exactly number 35 did in this game. He came up big when his team needed him, and equally important the team helped him out when he needed them. The third and fourth goal for the Stars came within the same minute of the Wild goals. If that isn't responding, I don't know what is. Mike Modano must have found the fountain of youth up in Montreal, since his scoring frenzy continued with another tally. Steve Ott fought Cal Clutterbuck not once, but twice both in the first and second period. (He totally won both rounds) The second altercation was for Clutterbuck's clean but not cool hit on Brad Richards. The Stars are starting to play with some swagger, but that will be put to the test on Thursday on the road against the now Ken Hitchcock-less Columbus Blue Jackets.