from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,
It is easy to say – because it’s logical to project – that there’s no way the Dallas Stars are actually going to win four straight games to save their season against the Vegas Golden Knights.
This conclusion isn’t because the Stars aren’t an excellent team. They are. But so are the Knights.
It’s more math than emotion: only four teams in National Hockey League history have rallied from a 0-3 deficit to win a playoff series, and it has never happened in a conference final, where teams that win the first three games are 46-0 in advancing to the Stanley Cup Final.
The Golden Knights, a 51-win team that had 111 points in the regular season, aren’t going to lose four straight playoff games after losing only three times in the first month of the Stanley Cup tournament.
This Stars’ comeback almost certainly is not happening despite Dallas’ impressive 4-2 road win Saturday in Las Vegas.
But the fantastic thing about sports is that you actually have to play the games.
And ask yourself this: Can the Dallas Stars win two consecutive games? Because that’s all they have to do now after halting the Knights and stealing momentum by winning Games 4 and 5 in the Western Conference Final.
The Stars no longer have to climb Mt. Everest. They just have to get up the Eiger.
Game highlights are below.
from Mike Heika of the Stars website,
There's a moth that's been following the Stars around the past few days.
It was at the airport in Dallas before the Stars took off on Friday, the hotel in Las Vegas Saturday morning, and the press room at T-Mobile Arena.
Some people consider moths to be signs of transformation and rebirth, and that's where we're going here.
The Stars continue to grow and spread their wings as they try to make history in their best-of-seven Western Conference Final against the Vegas Golden Nights. Dallas took a 4-2 win in Game 5 on Saturday and the series now sits at 3-2 in favor of Vegas.
It's pretty impressive when you consider the Golden Knights got off to a 3-0 start and Dallas has won two in a row.
"We wanted to keep our season alive," said forward Jason Robertson who scored his fifth goal of the series. "We had to come into this hostile building, play a tremendous team, and get a gritty road win and bring it back to Dallas."
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