As Bouwmeester attempted to return to defend a Stars rush, Roussel, skating diagonally in an apparent effort to stay onside, collided with the Blues defenseman.
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Dallas forced overtime by erasing a two-goal deficit in the third period, when the Stars outshot St. Louis 13-2.
Until this game, Lehtonen had been strong for the Stars, and his shaky first period reopens the goaltending rotation in Dallas. There’s no gain in giving Dallas another advantage. Hertl then fired a shot just under Rinne’s glove on the short side. The Texas Stars saw their season end in the playoffs on Friday night.St. Louis won the battle of hits in Game 2, 42-23. Benn picked up the primary assist on Alex Goligoski’s first period goal. Defending Big D has a comprehensive breakdown of the intricacies of applying the interference to the play.
Dallas rookie center Mattias Janmark had a breakaway goal 4½ minutes into the final period, and Dallas was nearly immediately on the power play after the ensuing faceoff. He yanked Lehtonen in favor of Antti Niemi at the start of the second period.
Thanks to TKNL Experience Makers, located in Canada, the projects are able to play the videos created by the Blues. Niemi doesn’t even have to do that much work in the third, because the Stars were trying to hard to tie it up that they gave the Blues two shots on goal. This is the final piece of the puzzle that needs to be put in place for the Note to truly close out this second round series with a victory. David Backes would not give up on the Blues’ second powerplay effort and he banged home the game victor at 10:58 of OT. And as a result, they had the Stars hemmed in their zone for long stretches, and gummed up the transition that beat them in Game 1. They have to get past their thrilling seven-game opening series against the defending Stanley Cup champions. He needs to regain his competitive spirit, and find his true team form to help the Blues go deep into this year’s playoffs, and beyond.
It’s just human nature working against the Blues’ better judgment. A puck ricocheted off a teammate’s skate and then hit Roussel’s, popping over the net and into the back of the goalie’s head before falling to the ice.
Backes is only the second player in Blues history with two overtime goals in the same postseason, having scored the OT victor in the opener of the Blues’ first-round series against Chicago. Paul Stastny led the Blues with seven.
“It’s the wrong thing to do against a team as good as Dallas”.
After the game Sunday both the coach and some of the players were asked point blank if it was the goal of the Blues to play a prevent defense or if it was something that just kind of happened.
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St. Louis had a quick extra-man chance in overtime when John Klingberg was whistled for holding as Vladimir Tarasenko, who scored 40 goals in the regular season and four in the first-round series, was charging toward the net. “It’s not like they have any secret formula, they just throw a lot of pucks at the net and try to crash there and get second and third opportunities”.
