from Matthew DeFranks of the Dallas Morning News,

After the Stars suffocated Vegas in the first game of the Western Conference Final, the Golden Knights pushed back in Game 2 on Tuesday night, beating Dallas 3-0 to even the series at one game apiece. It was the first time in more than three weeks that the Stars were shut out, and they have not scored in the last 117:24 against the Golden Knights.

“We never got our game going like we could,” Joe Pavelski said. “The flow of it, it was choppy on our part, the execution was off. There were areas that lacked. It made it tougher.”

Once again, the Stars looked like the regular-season Stars on Tuesday night.

The offense wasn’t flowing like it was in the first two rounds against Calgary and Colorado. They sometimes relied on their goaltending to bail them out of bad situations. But unlike Sunday’s series-opening win when they controlled the neutral zone, Vegas generated offense when they wanted to in the opening 40 minutes.

“Eventually, when you’re on your heels, you’re going to get scored on, and we did,” Stars forward Mattias Janmark said. “They kept rolling after that. We took penalties, and they took charge of the game today. They were in charge all game. Last game, we were in charge, I felt like. That’s the big difference.”

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