The Dallas Stars couldn t take their season into overtime after all of that extra time they played during the condensed schedule.
Only 7 1/2 months after finishing the NHL s first pandemic-affected season in the Stanley Cup Final inside the NHL bubble, the Stars missed the playoffs in the 56-game follow-up. They had an NHL-high 14 overtime/shootout losses â one-fourth of their games in a season that started a week late for them in January when about half the team tested positive for COVID-19. Their last 44 games were played over a 78-day stretch.
âItâs nothing you can really prepare for. Never seen a schedule like that or a season like that,â captain Jamie Benn said Tuesday. âWe embraced it and did the best we could.â
Blackhawks beat Stars in fans return to United Center
Alex DeBrincat scored two more goals, Kevin Lankinen made 37 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks welcomed fans back to the United Center with a 4-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Sunday night.
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CHICAGO Alex DeBrincat and the Chicago Blackhawks lingered on the ice when it was over, holding their sticks in the air.
For the first time all season, it felt like home.
DeBrincat scored two more goals, Kevin Lankinen made 37 saves and the Blackhawks welcomed fans back to the United Center with a 4-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Sunday night.
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Stars, Blackhawks aim to end season on positive note
Field Level Media
10 May 2021, 20:19 GMT+10
Fueled by fans at home in the United Center for the first time this season, the Chicago Blackhawks didn t disappoint on Sunday, defeating the Dallas Stars 4-2 before a crowd of 3,820.
As the two teams face off in the same venue Monday in the regular-season finale for both, Chicago will aim for asimilar result while hopefully satisfying a few thousand more customers. It was such a huge difference right from the anthem, Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton said. You couldn t help but smile when you heard the reaction from the crowd. As the home team you really feed off that energy. We ve missed that this year.
The marathon that is the 2020-21 season for Dallas culminates Monday
From COVID postponements and historic weather delays to countless injuries and a compacted schedule, the Stars have given it everything they have by Mike Heika @MikeHeika /
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Roope Hintz won t be on the ice Monday when the Stars finish the 2020-21 season, but he will definitely embody the spirit of the injury-plagued campaign.
Hintz was nominated by the Dallas Chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association as the team s Masterton Trophy nominee for this season. The 24-year-old center has been battling through lower-body pain throughout the season, but has still found a way to tally a ca