Stars show signs of life
Put those brooms away, the Dallas Stars are not ready to go home just yet.
Thanks to a 33-save effort from Marty Turco, who picked a fine time to return to form, the Stars avoided a four-game sweep with a 3-1 victory that snapped the Detroit Red Wings' nine-game winning streak.
And wouldn't you know, it was the former captain, Mike Modano, and the current captain, Brenden Morrow, who scored third period goals to keep the season alive.
Modano's fifth power play marker of the post-season helped the Stars restore the lead after Henrik Zetterberg tied it in the opening minute of the third and Morrow then provided the insurance with a quick shot that went past the screen of super-pest Steve Ott.
This win might not have been possible without a blown call that prevented what should have been the ice-breaker, a perfect shot from Pavel Datsyuk that was disallowed when the referee ruled that Tomas Holmstrom was in the blue paint.
Holmstrom was in the blue paint on the third goal in Game 1 and that goal (off his leg) should have been disallowed, but there was certainly no goalie interference on this play.
As the saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right but the Stars weren't complaining.
In the final minute of the second period, Loui Eriksson gave Dallas its first lead of the series and provided the home side with a much-needed shot in the arm.
On this night, the Stars looked more like the club that dispatched the Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks.
We're not quite ready to suggest the Stars are about to become the third team in NHL history to rebound from a 3-0 deficit to come back and win a series, but we will say this:
Nobody expected the New York Yankees to lose four straight against the Boston Red Sox in 2004 either.
If this game taught us anything, it's that the Red Wings are human and the Stars are much better than what they showed in the first three games of the series.
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