from Terry Jones of the Edmonton Sun,

It was only the second time this season that Dallas has been restricted to a single goal and they have yet to be shutout, an achievement Nilsson almost achieved.

The goaltender steal the win?

“Yup. That was a hell of a performance,” said coach Todd McLellan. “If he wasn’t the first two or three stars he should have been.

“As I walked down the hall I wondered what was going to be asked in here tonight and I knew my first answer was going to be ‘What a great game played by Nilsson.

“He stole a game he gave us a chance to win. That first period was really frustrating. The lay-ups that we gave them …

“If Anders doesn’t play the way he does that game gets away from us so fast that we don’t happened. We played better games and lost them than we played tonight,” added McLellan.

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