Blues Hand Stars Their First Road Loss Of The Season, 3-1 | DLLS STARS POSTGAME

Oh yeah. Yeah. Don’t eat it without Don’t eat it without Wow. Ryan’s mad cuz we were talking over scared the poop out of me. Are we on? Okay. Cuz our producer just jumped out of his chair, threw down his headphones, and decided on I’m not in focus. This camera. Oh, yeah. We’re on. I’m just looking at you guys. We just made another Seinfeld reference that Sam has no idea on. So, we actually are on. I made another one about did did he crumble any crackers because that’s a Seinfeld line makes sa meal. You don’t have to crumble them when they’re oyster crackers. You just put them in there. That’s right. But if they’re the saltines, you got to crumble them up. All right. Stars postgame show. Before we get hungry and want some late night soup, Stars Blues, we’ll start now. No soup for you. Well, let’s grab the notes. Let’s get it started. DLS Stars postgame show on a Saturday night between the Dallas Stars and the St. Louis Blues from Enterprise Center. We have Craig Lewig. We have Sam Nestler. We have our producer Ryan Vers. I’m Owen Newkerk. Thanks for joining us tonight. Stars have lost two in a row now in their first road defeat of the new season after wins at Winnipeg and Colorado. They go to St. Louis who had conceded an eight spots just on Wednesday night against the Chicago Blackhawks where they completely got out of their systems, their shells, their defensive structure and the young upstart Hawks ran rough shot over them. Buds. We heard a lot of stuff from Jim Montgomery in the pregame show. He was blunt. He was very much not sugarcoating anything. He wasn’t real happy with his team. He sent a public message to two of his superstars. One of them scored a goal tonight. I don’t know if Robert Thomas was dialed in offensively, but this Blues team was really buttoned up defensively. Yeah, you know, I think this is this is the team that Montgomery wants, you know, and again, you play against a team like the Dallas Stars that have the gift and the abundance of speed and skill, you probably are, whether you say it out loud to your players, you’re talking about the coaches, you’re going, “We don’t want to outskill these guys tonight cuz we’re not going to. We’re not going to get into a runand gun game.” And the best way to shut a team like the Stars down is to frustrate them. And they frustrate them with their structure. And their structure was really good tonight. Um they had fiveman units all over the ice. And and at times, you know, and I and times then the good players still want to try to kind of sift their ways through there and and it’s not easy. And pucks were turned over and they couldn’t really get a lot going. And when you have that skilled team uh that with versus some teams, it’s very easy in games like this, it gets very frustrating. The Stars and Blues have a really weird schedule this year. They play tonight and we will not see them again until January 23rd where they will play three times in a row. The theme here for the Winter Olympic break. January 23rd in Dallas, 27th in St. Louis, and February 4th in Dallas. So in a couple week span they’ll play three times. They won’t see him after the break the rest of the season division opponent and they won’t see him between now and January 23rd. So uh at least with Colorado early game and then three in the back half of the season. So you get get to see them sort of again not the schedule makers here but it would seem like couple of if if you’re playing four times against your division opponents during the year two in the first half two in the second half because especially when you get around trade deadline time teams change the makeup of what their rosters look like teams bring in different guys get hurt. There’s all sorts of a lot of times what you see in the first month of the year is not the same team you see in the last couple months. Yeah, because you you get everything dialed in by then. And and again, the team that you saw tonight will probably be better, and I’m talking about St. Louis Blues, they’ll be better in their structure as as well, the Dallas Stars will be at some point. But, you know, those games late late in the year to me, a lot of them are because of playoff the playoff races and those those two points either way. And I’m okay with that with those the the whole Blues and Stars being done by February 4th. There should be at least one more in the last month or so just because of the ramifications of the standings or maybe not. If they want to play like this, you’d rather not play like or maybe not. Sam, you asked Luds during the game tonight an interesting question. Even more so, you elicited a really good answer. So, I would like you to rehash that if either of you can remember that. And if you can’t, I will jog your memory. I remember it. I said to Luds, I said, “Loods, you played hockey, right?” I said, “A little bit.” And then he joked, “It depends on your perspective.” Yes. No, I said self-deprecating. I said no one is not trying in professional hockey. So, what what do you see when the game is like that? When it looks like cuz fans are obviously saying no effort, no lack of effort. They don’t look like they care. What is it that leads to that? It’s like I said, I I think it becomes frustrating when you play against a team like that. I mean, you’re you’re getting away with that against a lot of teams in the league because they don’t they don’t have a coach like Monty. They don’t have a general manager like Doug Armstrong that that had success two times with that kind of structure with different coaches. So they they have a philosophy that they believe in that wins you championships and you take 82 games to get your structure in line. And and what it does is, you know, up until, you know, the Ranton and Wyatt Johnson show, there wasn’t a lot going on for Dallas. you know, not not what we see where the the run and gun and exchanging of chances at both ends of the rink because that’s just not what the Blues are going to do. And again, the Blues, if they wanted to play that way, it’d be like taking a knife to a gunfight, you know, because they don’t have the same kind of skill level in, you know, in four and five and and the same thing on the back end when you got Mero and Harley and guys like that. Um, they don’t have that. So, they play the way that they have to to be successful. And they they they gave Winnipeg everything they could handle just about, you know, up until what a couple seconds left last year in the playoffs. Yep. And uh boy, yeah, that was a one where we thought they were It looked like it was going to be Stars Blues last year and yet it wasn’t because of that last second goal and then the I would have been able to go to those games. Double OT. Yeah, you would have been able to walk. Well, I would have been able to fly towards St. Louis. Who knows where I would have ended up? I mean, in an Iowa cornfield. Knock on wood. Hopefully. Um, that’s two losses in a row after three wins to start the season. We saw some warts in early going, but it was sort of overlooked because of the results and the winning and the offense. But LSW, when you have trouble scoring, some of those things start to stand out. Did you see the same things tonight that you saw in the first four games, or was this better from I did and and I think we only have one example. And Ryan, can we pull up the two from St. Louis and the first three of them? The two St. Louis and if hopefully some people are watching. Um we’ll we’ll show what what I’m talking about as far as structure, but Dallas was doing a Oh, here we go. What the puck? Oh, I haven’t seen that yet. Well, and and this is what I’m talking about in the Dzone again. A lot of teams want to try to get to this. And you you can see where where is the opportunity in the slot? There isn’t any. They keep everything to the perimeter. They have numbers in front. The little tiny passes, the little soft passes in there, they they don’t help. And there’s one more clip we have here of St. Louis. same kind of thing. I mean, again, this is what it is, but they do this all over the ice. They do this in the Dzone. They do it in the neutral zone. They try to get numbers around in the offensive zone. Now, Dallas had a couple tonight. And and and this is a structure that Monty wants to get to. And Dallas had one that we tried to show, oh yeah, the what I was the only thing I had circled here is like this is sealing people out, you know? I mean, so there’s no one in there. There’s one guy there, but even if he gets into the slot, you know, they’re probably not going to get the puck. But like I said, Dallas is getting closer to this. I mean, we’re seeing it every game and they’re getting their numbers in the spots and so they’re just not it’s not automatic for them right now like it was like it is for St. Louis. And again, remember Monty’s been there more than five games like like Gully has. So Gully’s system and what he’s trying to do isn’t there yet. Monty’s system wasn’t there when he came in what did he come in with 10 10 15 goal games into the season for them or something like that. So now he’s had almost a full season in a little bit to get him where he wants him. When you look at Jim Montgomery’s style, and you referenced this off air, but it’s also something that we saw in close connection, it it screams Ken Hitchcock, and Hitch was a sounding board for a lot and continues to be for a lot of coaches. I think he really enjoys being a mentor of younger coaches. I think he enjoys trying to problem solve and figure things out. I mean, what coach doesn’t want to do that? That’s like the most rewarding thing for coaches is is watching and and finding cracks in the armor or solutions and stuff like that to the problems. And I remember when they brought Monty in, people thought, okay, well, you you moved on from Ken Hitchcock, who had done a his second stint for one year with Dallas, and it was very much the same. Maybe the only difference was that Monty was a lot younger. He was new in the NHL and he was known as being a pretty offensive-minded player who loved to run set plays off of faceoffs and power plays. He maybe took a little bit more offensive risk when it came to uh you know offensive zone starts, but the the style is really similar to Hitch. Well, and that’s the reason Arm Doug Armstrong brought Ken Hitchcock into the Blues. And so there was a you know for a period of time near the end and in the last months of when Hitch was there with Monty is it was basically a a phone call once a week just to have conversations and Hitch would sit at home and and and watch games and things like that and and then be able to report to Monty and this and and again Monty is not listening to everything that Ken Hitchcock says but but he’s respects I think the information that he gives him and then he tweaks as much as he has to tweak But I mean it’s it’s right in front of you tonight. That that that’s all Jim Montgomery. We were able to Sam listen to thanks to Mike Haiko sent us the audio of the postgame interview with with Glenn Golson. A bunch bunch of things he talked about, but one of the things that Gully very much talked about was handling the puck and turnovers. Yeah, that was a big theme in his post game comments. Yeah, he said that a lot, right? I can’t remember what other game he was talking about how it wasn’t structure, right? It wasn’t. It might have been the loss to to Vancouver and even the games they won. There’s a lot of It’s not like we’re seeing the team just have a total, you saying it wasn’t systems. Yeah, it’s not like they’re just completely out of position. You know, we saw a few times where they’re making the wrong decision here and there, but we’ve seen a ton of I mean, Harley tonight did it three or four times. Jason Robertson tonight did it a few times. Um, you know, Maverick Bourke played great tonight, but he had a couple plays where he could have shot the puck at net and instead he kind of tries to force a pass and it ends up going around the other way. I just think maybe we’re seeing that balance. It’s kind of a common theme we’ve seen where they’re in between, right? They’re in between either the systems from last year or the systems from this year or they’re in between we’re free to make plays, but also we should probably make a simpler play here and there. And I think that’s the the give and take that we’re seeing right now. Sometimes it looks great, sometimes it looks terrible. And I think cleaning that up will will start to happen. But I guess that’s what you get when you tell a team they can make plays, right? They’re going to try to make plays. And once in a while you’re going to try to make that extra play that maybe shouldn’t happen. And uh just a few turnovers that I mean second period looked like they couldn’t get the puck out of their own end and it was just funneled back at them over and over and that’s the turnovers that are leading that and that’s because they were trying to hit those little seams and make tape to tape passes and they’re and that’s kind of what the frustrating thing is and that’s kind of what what Gully is talking about is that when when it’s not there you at least have to advance the puck forward. you put it into a to a little soft area that you can have a teammate that starts coming to the puck. A lot of times the way Dallas plays, you know, there’s three, four guys flying up through the neutral zone and they’re spaced out. But when you when you have structure that you’re playing against like this, because you can’t get it from one side of the ice, the other, you have to come to the puck. So if the right winger has the puck, your best play is to chip it up the wall underneath that guy and then you’ve got somebody coming to it and you may have to chip it again. It just all depends on how tight their four guys are or whatever they have through the neutral zone and just simplify it, right? We saw what was it Robertson to Wyatt Johnston on that little he throws it across, banks it off the end wall and comes right to what? That’s the kind of stuff you have to do when they’re not allowing you to get through it. As we’re we’re going to talk about it, but as we’re applauding and saying how good St. Louis looked for across in the blue line, they’re never going to get through. And then you go rant and it gets and yeah, I know. I just said, “Oh, no. You’re going to try to dagger through this.” Then it was tic tac bing in the net. the most part, yeah, they weren’t able to get Well, that was the only time they were actually really I mean, maybe there was one or two other times throughout the whole game, but for the most part, it it doesn’t happen against these guys. And again, for skilled guys that can do this all the time, it’s hard for them to adjust because it’s their nature and they’re good enough to do it. But again, it’s it’s one thing to go through a couple guys and find little seams in there, but when you have four guys generally all the time, and you saw the last, you know, three, four minutes of the hockey game, St. Louis never lost a guy. They never and I what I mean by that there was never anybody below a Dallas Stars player in Dallas’s defensive end. They were going to make sure when Dallas breaks out that they’re going to have to come through five guys once if you want to get down to the other end of the ice. And Gully talked about the Blues ability to be one of the better battling teams, meaning they win their one-on-one battles, meaning they’re they’re hard to play against. As we talked about, even if there’s, you know, numbers getting forward and the Blues have numbers back, we weren’t seeing breakdowns very often because, you know, you can break that structure down if you win your one-on-one battles. We did see some instances, we’ll go through it, where guys got in on the forch, got the puck, and there were spaces, but they weren’t able to capitalize. And that’s part of the issue, which we’ll get to all of that full breakdown. We got more chalk talk with Luds and much much more. Even some of your questions, don’t forget to hit those super chats because those are on the way too on the DLS Stars Postgame show. If you want to feel organized and confident, I would love to with your finances. Monarch Money is there to have your back. 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They’ve scored a lot. They actually came into the game second best in the NHL this season so far with a 38% power play. They were 0 for two tonight. Blues were also, but Robert Thomas had one of only three high danger chances in the first period. His was that short-handed one-time. Good save by Luds. You talk about breaking down a tough defense. It was Adam Ernie and Nathan Bastion. Twoon one. Really good save by Bennington on Bastion. And then uh he had Bass had a chance on the second effort from a sharp angle, but he sailed it over the bar. You want me to say what I said to you guys upstairs, right? Don’t you? I was just thinking the same thing. Okay. I was just joking. But but Glenn on that twoon-one with Bastion and Ernie, I’d said Glenn Gullixson is sitting there. He probably walked down to one of his assistant coaches and said, “With the 12 forwards that I have sitting on the bench right now, the last two guys I probably wanted on a twoon-one are Bastion and Ernie.” And I don’t mean that a bad way again either. I say a lot of things that I don’t mean in a bad way, but but he would prefer it to be a lot of skill to choose from. You know, couple guys that can, you know, bury some pucks. Good play by Ernie though. Really much fun guys. That’s a great play. Adam Adam Ernie had eight hits tonight and and he played uh nine just under 10 minutes I think it was. So that’s exactly what he needed to do. I think it was the third period I looked over you and said, “Man, Adam Ernie is just an honest player. He knows what he is and he sticks to the the game plan.” Yep. He’s very similar to Steel, Blackwell, guys like that. You know, they they are what they are, you know, a little heavier than Blackwell and Steel as far as has a little bit more weight to throw his body around and that that’s a good thing. But he also has some skill like he’s not going to be confused for a top six guy, but just like we talked about with Steel, Steel’s a really skillful bottom six guy. He can fill in in your top six, but we’ve talked about this a whole bunch from training camp to the offseason to now. still feels like they’re really missing somebody to compliment Jason Robertson. Now, it could be Jamie Ben. I don’t think he has the legs for that anymore. Somebody to compliment Robo on the left hand side. Not to play with him, but to be another piece of on the left wing for the stars somewhere in that middle six or up because, you know, lose Granlin, you lose Marchment, there’s a hole there. We still see it. Again, I’m not bagging on Sam Steel anymore than you’re bagging on Colin Blackwell. You’re a better team without Sam Steel and Adam. In your third or fourth line, you’re in a better It’s the same we said with Johnny Donov. He can play top six, but if he’s in your bottom six, you got a really good team. Yeah. I mean, you know, again, if if Robo’s up there playing, I think if you have a steady diet, I can beat this one in the ground, too. Robo, hence Ratin. And then if you want, you can move wide up there with Duchain and Sean. You can move Bourke up there. You know what I mean? Or you can keep and but the thing is is if you keep Sean and Duchain together and if you keep Wyatt and Bourke together, you’re still missing you’re missing two pieces something in that caliber of that. So you almost have to say I’m going to take one of those two and it would probably for my money it would be Wyatt because we know he can play as offside. He can play all over the ice and if you want to put him up there with with Tyler and Matt Duchain at least to me you have a couple couple top six line they’re still missing at four checker on that line Mar parchment yeah because he complimented them so well he did I want to ask although he also took some penalties at times yes he did I want to ask Leno and either one the steel on top line the Ernie or Blackwell or whatever would be Shane Sean that not on paper but that looks good if you’re rolling four lines and you got Okay, we got one guy that can do a little bit of grit, a little bit of grinding, a little more defensive, which looks good if you have the lead. Correct. So, are you surprised at all that down two nothing in this game? We didn’t see Miko Randon double shifted. We didn’t see Jason Robertson up on the top line. They pretty much rolled out the same thing. You just said Sam Steel played how many minutes? Uh, he played 18 and a half, 19 minutes and he didn’t have a shot. Is that is that okay for trailing two nothing? That’s what I’m saying. I I think that to me I was waiting. There’s a reason why he didn’t because he’s done it in the past three four games, right? So, for whatever reason tonight, he didn’t do it. But you notice when Robo Raton and and hence are together, you they’re they they spent a lot of time and they become dangerous and maybe because of the way that the St. Louis play Blues played tonight. Maybe Monty is looking at it or sorry, Gully’s looking at it like we need somebody that can penetrate through that and create some space for the other two guys. And that’s probably not necessarily Robo. Maybe that’s what he was hoping for. Like skill is not going to do it. No. And and if you’re looking for that guy, it could have been Bastion or it could have been Adam Ernie that’s going to get up there and plow over a couple guys and create a little more room for, you know, for whoever. Jake Hoter stopped. Matthew Joseph on a breakaway late in the first period. I I thought Otter looked good early. I thought the Stars played a pretty good road first period. Now, Blue, uh, Luds, do you have a breakdown? Uh, did we show the Stars five players down low? No, we’re not going to show that. We We can pop it up, but we don’t we don’t need to show it. It is very similar to Well, yeah, let’s just show Let’s get it out of the way. I I just wanted to show that they are getting to Oh, of course, we got to show this first. I know this is what this is all I was showing. I mean, if you went and you go back and you look what I showed about the Blues, this is exactly where Dallas is getting to now. So, this is this is what they’re trying to get to, you know, with their structure on on a steady diet. But I think what you were talking about there was the the next the Blues had a power play in the in the first period. Yeah. And and to me, okay, here we go again. I’m not sure. Oh, yeah. There’s my little diamond there to show you where there’s no Royal Road there that’s available. Okay, move on, please. Ryan, are we going to put this little puck thing up there between every one of these frames? So, so here here’s the here’s the thing. So, here’s the this is there’s times when I don’t u enjoy Wyatt killing penalties. Okay, Wyatt, we got an arrow here at at Leon Bishell. Leon Bishell should be in front of the net. Wyatt Johnston should be over there where Leon Bishell is right now. And so those would that would be your penalty kill right now. But Wyatt always drifts out of the middle of the ice. Now because he does that that there’s the circle where I would rather have Bishel. But because he does that now Wyatt has to come down the back door because that’s where that guy’s coming to the net. Wyatt should be where that circle is right there. Rather Wyatt should be there and Bishell should be waiting in front of the net where your offside defenseman generally is. Wyatt would be the guy taking away that pass that comes to the slot. Well, now what happens is once it gets behind the net, Wyatt’s already down there. Now Bishell decides to come back down here, too. And this was this was a a just about. It really didn’t turn into an opportunity, but this pass comes out here and and we’ve got a player from St. Louis that’s wide open, right? And so this is where Bishel drops down, but that guy in the middle of the ice there should not be open. That should be where Wyatt would if he would have started in the middle of the ice, he would have had him. Bishop would have been in front of the net and luckily this one never happened. Swing and a miss, right? Yeah. Well, I’m not sure. I I think there may have he might have gotten a he fans on it, but I but but he fans on it, but I but Oh, you weren’t here the other night when he started writing on the screen. No, but I did hear Ryan go. It took like 40 seconds to see this. Well, no. I I can’t write very good with these digits of mine. Like, it’s all over the map. That’s why you were asking for a pencil. Yeah, that’s what I was asking for. I think Ro got us got a lift on this on his That’s what I mean. I think I think he just got a stick on that and and that’s why the shot didn’t get off. So, good job by him getting back. Overall, Dallas had more chances, but they didn’t have a lot of high danger. They had the one for Bassie. It was a pretty good road period, right? They didn’t do a lot, but they also didn’t give up a lot. So, in in in essence, Bennington and did their jobs. Stars and blue zero after one. Very typical for Dallas and St. Louis. But then early second period after a little more period of not a whole lot happening. Jake Neighbors had a open wister in the left sloter made a good save on a high danger chance and then Robo had a breakaway and oh man he doesn’t miss by much on these and usually he scores a lot but he didn’t make this one and you could tell where he was trying to go and what he was waiting at. And we can only kind of show the steel shots but Robo’s got that breakaway and he’s got the whole zone, right? He’s got the whole zone to figure out uh Bennington. But now you’ll watch when you get to the next one. He there all he’s doing right here. He’s reading where his glove hand is. That’s what I think that and the five-fold. But as he gets closer, he makes up his mind what he wants to do. And I want you to look at his stick blade right here. See how that blade is turned? He’s got it open. That was that shot that was supposed to go over the glove hand. And I I don’t know if Benin got a piece to it or he just missed the net. But that that one right there, you can tell he always he’s kind of standing upright. That blade has opened up and he wanted to go to that top corner and he just missed it. And that was a big one because then upstairs see Sam he’s trying to go upstairs with it. He’s loving it. Let’s You should start writing. I forgot about that paragraphs on there. This takes us right into the next one because after that chance here comes Jordan Kyru the other way to score the opening goal of the game. First time this entire season. And again, it’s not very long, but five games in the store stars had scored first in four straight. That’s good. That’s very unlike Dallas. How many times over the last couple of years with Dbor was slow starts giving up a goal and that woke the team up and then they came storming back. Well, so far this year, Dallas has been in front in every single game until tonight. Well, we talking about the Kyro goal now. We are. Yes. Okay. So, this is a little flashback to last year. And I didn’t put this on here, but we’re going to we’re going to show you here where it Matt Duchain kind of loses Kyru a little bit, but Oh, there we go again. So, I want you to look over there on the wall, right? Originally, that was Lean Bishell that was up there and then there was a little and Kyru’s right here in the middle. He was up there on Bishell playing the man-on-man kind of thing and then he bailed out. Well, Matt Duchain now has him right here. But what Matt doesn’t do is he doesn’t judge the speed of Kyu. So, Kyru ends up getting to basically to the middle of the ice. And now you keep an eye on Bishell and that’s Petravic down there. And what’ll happen is Bishell doesn’t really I don’t think he even knows definitely doesn’t know. They’re tied up here. So, he actually runs into Pro and I don’t know who that was. If that was uh Buchad or somebody, but anyway, so he runs into that pile there. Well, now there’s just a whole lane going to the net for Kyru. Kyu, the guy that just got called out this afternoon by his head coach. And well, then he actually makes him pay. Well, you know who that is? That’s Braden Shen. Braden Shen. Yeah. Front of the net. Y Yeah. Well, and that I’m just giving you a little That’s where the puck went right back there. Right there. It went It went kind of Jake. Yeah. Isn’t it’s in the net. Jake, kind of give him give him one of these. You know, the little glove hand down there. And if you uh Ryan, can you go back a couple frames or are we stuck now? because I I want to show the one where he dangles past Duchain, right? I I understand it. It’s not a good look and I I said, “Oh, boy.” You know, Matt Duchain, go back another one. Sort of gave him the lip service here. But he’s actually biting on that shot. He No, he didn’t. I thought Duchain he did not read the pass that came off the wall. And what happened is, if you watch, Kyru is flying backwards through the middle of the ice here. And Matt was kind of he wasn’t really judging the speed that Kyru had. And so when that pass comes through that seam, when when he when that pass comes through that seam between two two stars players there, he’s already beat. Kyro just grabs it and keeps on going. And Matt tried to pivot a little bit and and you can see him leaning forward. And once he’s leaning forward and Kyro pulls it past him, there’s no chance for him to recover on that. But he should have actually been lower and more to the middle of the ice there. And and he probably would have been in a better position. And it’s easy to say, but but that’s where you should have been. And that was Kyru’s first goal of the season. Here’s their guy that’s supposed to be their leading goal scorer called out by his coach today and gets a goal. And that is the kind of thing that, you know, Jim Montgomery is going to go later going, “Yep, that’s what we need from you. That’s why I said it. You scored. It vindicates me calling you out.” See, I wish somebody would have panned to the to the bench to look at Monty. Monty would have been standing over. He would have been wear all of a sudden wearing his camera hat again. Yeah. Dynasty hat. One- nothing St. Louis after one after uh what is it? That’d be it. It’s the second period. It’s 2:27. Very early second period. We’re going to break down the rest of it and get to your super chats here as we continue on the DLS Stars postgame show next. Want me to talk about some shirts and LLS merch? I like this. I like these jams. What is that? Sounds well. Anyway, feels like I should be playing a saxophone. Eh, Ryan, let’s start firing these shirts off again that everybody should be now. Apparently, Ryan, you were wrong. This is not an 8bit. This is a 16bit. I don’t even think eight was a bit at that time. Anyway, this is the Wyatt Johnson 16bit shirt. It’s all ziggity zaggy. It’s like you got beer goggles on looking at that. What else we got? We got Oh, well, we got the finisher. And he finished tonight. Took one off the skate. That’s the Miko Ratin and finisher shirt. We got the Moose. There’s the Moose. Moose has got a lot of things going on here. He’s got a lot of hardware as he should. Do we We don’t have the Jamie Ben one, but there is the Ben one out. Here’s Here’s the Jake. This is the This is Sam’s shirt. This is Sam’s favorite shirt, I believe. But Oh, there is the Finnish Mafia one. That’s the big one, right? For all the fins on there. I think they should all have their own shirt. But do we have the Roddy shirt? Do we have the Rody? You guys are wondering. I know it’s it’s a it’s a star show, but we’re talking about the Dallas Cowboys all the time. Let’s talk about the Rody shirt. You know what this stands for, folks, right? Rookie of the year. And that is that’s for Paige Booker. Almost show Otani. What is it? Becker. Beckers. Becker. Paige Beckers. Okay. I get a dual. That’s the 8bit Paige Booker shirt. 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Ryan, we’re rolling now. Let’s keep it going. Anyway, um Wyatt Johnson stole the puck shot. High danger chance. Great save by Jordan Bennington. That would be not the last time we hear from Wyatt tonight, but the Stars are trailing a goal and they’re just for the most part not having a great second period. again the other night against Vancouver after a great start. Two goals first period they’re rolling. They give up four. Well, tonight they give up two and on the second one here in the second period it’s it’s a rebound in front from Jimmy Snuggaroo who gets his third of the year. The rookies having to a great start. 1352 time of the goal which Nevich and Tucker the assist. Let’s break it down. What happened here? This was uh uh off the rush, but the defenseman Tucker, who you can kind of see on the top of the screen here, number 75, I believe it is. This is BH Navish that, you know, he’s got the puck here, but what happens is Tucker drops this puck to Buchavich, but what then he does is he takes the stick of Petravic and then he continues to keep that and he and you’re doing that for a reason. You’re keeping it out of the way. It gives Buchavic a little more time and then ultimately that stick ends up between the legs of Tucker and now Pro can’t do anything. So as Bhnavic skates deeper into the zone, Pro gets screwed right into the ice and so he’s basically out of the picture now. Takes the shot, Buchavich takes this shot and you can see it right down there on the bottom and it we got a little bit of a rebound and here comes little Snuggy over there on the right hand side. Bavich takes off right to the front of the net. Snugger once he gets right to the front of the net, he reaches over the top of the pile. Just give it a little poke into the back of the net. Yeah, there’s the puck right there that came off of the skate. And there is Snugarude just over the top. Look at that. That’s a great effort. He’s got he’s got whoever that is right on his back on. By the way, there were a bunch of people on my Twitter feed during that play complaining that that was a penalty for interference. And if you go back and look at what Led just said, there was no contact in the crease. I didn’t think there was any goalie interference on that play. That’s a, you know, Jake came out just above his crease. It’s not like they ran him. If there’s any contact at all, it’s legal as long as you’re not intentionally trying to hit him. If you’re looking at that picture, you could see that, but he he was part of the pile. Yeah, it was not a I don’t think there was anything really even concerning. The starters didn’t challenge it. They shouldn’t have. So, it’s two to nothing. And that was a real backbreaker because obviously it’s hard enough to break down a determined, tightly defended Blues squad, but it really is when you need more than one because one shot game you can be patient. Two shot game, you’re in trouble. And LS, they almost broke down right away because Jake Neighbors had a twoon-one down low from Robert Thomas who had also been called out by Jim Montgomery. Otter made a great save, but we started to see some issues. And then Buchvich had a a a really good look from the left circle. Another grade A chance stars. It was 2 to1 high dangers in the first. The Blues had 6 to1 grade A’s in the second. They completely carried that period. And you know, part of that I is the change, you know, and and the way that way that they play and they keep things tight and and things like that. and you’ve got the long change and and so a lot of times you end up getting caught out there, you know, longer than you want because you can’t get out of your own zone at times the way that St. Louis is pressing in that zone and and then you’re tired and that ultimately leads to a couple chances. So the guys in the chat are saying that they weren’t saying that it was the goalie being interfered with. They thought it was a pick play by the defender by Tucker or in front led you he said they said even Razer all he’s doing is driving to the net. I don’t remember Razer saying this. We have the audio on of the broadcast. Are these guys you play with or something? No, no. These are people in our chat. They’re watching. I thought this was on the pigeon team that you remember. He remembers that. I like that. Yeah. Very nice. Um, so you go to the third period. They’re down two nothing. Needed something. And they almost had it from Wyatt Johnson early in the third period. He’s wide open. I believe this is the Maverick Bourc setup class. And it goes right into the glove of Bennington. It’s a great save. Wyatt scores there. Maybe it completely changes the way the third period unfolds, but this is the kind of big time moment you’re from your starting goalie that you need when you have a lead like that. Yeah, we kind of talked about this in the beginning, right? These two guys were probably going to have their best games tonight. And Bennington of all goalenders, we’ve seen him rise to the occasion. Yeah, Bennington’s great uh I think it was actually both on Wyatt’s shots, one in the first period, one in the third. He’s great at keeping his glove high, right? He he keeps it high and he keeps it out in front of him. And that shot from Wyatt in the first period, he had his I don’t know if he was in a full RVH or what he was in, but gloves up high, no chance. It goes right to the glove. This one, it’s a quick play, but you see he’s not scrambling to try to get out and gloves moving. He’s got his glove out in front of him and that puck, it looks like he doesn’t even have to move, right? Because it goes right into it. There’s no way to elevate it higher because his gloves out in front of him. It’s a great save. That’s it, Sam. That’s that’s why goalenders reach for the puck because it it cuts the angle down. the angle is a little harder to get the puck up because the the glove actually comes out and cuts it down. I’m sure Sean would have some technical way to explain that, but that’s basically what happens early on. Johnston hints, then the Johnston gradea Lindell pretty good start for the third period, but they didn’t get that goal and then the Blues suffocated them for a while. Middle of the period there was very little. We had couple of half chances from Kyu and Fowler, but really not a lot. And that’s really playing into the Blues uh game with the lead. They don’t care if nothing’s happening for 15 minutes. And then Mo Rantin gets a goal as he scores again. It’s his third of the year. And Lud, you were talking about trying not to dangle through the four at the blue line. And then I was and you guys are sitting there. I’m like, “Oh, don’t don’t be dangling.” They got five guys lined up across the blue line and then it’s Wyatt and and Mo and they dangle right through and bury it. It was it was a great play by Mo to set him up. And what I liked about it is once once Ratanton gets to a certain point, he gets around the first guy. I thought he was going to try to beat the second one. He kind of pulls it a little bit to his left, but then he already knows where Wyatt is and he puts it right over to Wyatt. Wyatt moves it back to him and off his skating in, but big deal, right? Wasn’t a kicking motion. You’re good. Made a good close game till the empty neter. Yeah, it didn’t seem like it lasted very long though because it made it two to1 and there’s 218 left to go in in the game and we’re thinking there is a chance. They get Jake off the ice for the extra attacker and Pew Sudter scores an empty net goal with just over a minute to go. But the effort that he makes to get this play from a little over 100t away was quite impressive. The way that he got his stick around and got it got it clear on the back and was kind of up in the air. Yeah, it was it was a great play. Good effort. Great play. I will say uh for anyone who cares the Stars in the third period did shuffle a little bit. Uh Ernie jumped up with Duchain and Sean and Blackwell went down on the fourth line and then they actually put Harley with Hastin and Lindell with Lushkin. So the Harley Hin was what we were just talking about loading up the top lines. They did load up the top pairing although Harley looked a little sick. Yeah. At times tonight as well. Good. I gave him a ton of credit for pushing through it but they didn’t really have a lot of gas tonight. Stars came into the game with the most penalty minutes per game of any team in the NHL. Obviously, they’ve gotten some extracurriculars. They’ve done some standing up for themselves. They came in ranked 32nd, averaging the most against in the in the early going. They only took two penalties tonight. So did the Blues. There was nothing in the third period. Were you surprised at how relatively calm non as far as the to me it was it was that it was that structure in the game, you know, nobody could get through and and again I I I think the other thing that that does with the Blues do is they hold you up. So you get on the forche and you really by the time you get to the guy that had the puck, it’s already moved away and it’s hard to finish a check because now they don’t want you finishing it too late and right so you know you’re on the on the on the fly. Let’s correct me if I’m wrong. Correct me if I’m Can we get that dropped? But like when when you’re playing when you’re St. Louis and you’re playing that well structured, why would you do a little extra after the whistle or throw a punch here and there? All you’re doing is asking for more. But but I think that that’s kind of that’s going to be part of their identity. You know what I mean? Like like you’re not especially in front of the net. Like I I think that hey, this is our house. You’re not coming into our house. So yeah, I think that you don’t want to be you really don’t want to be doing in the playoffs, right? But but I think as you’re you’re building your identity as the season goes along, that that’s part of being hard fiveman together kind of, you know, hard. So that’s it. Stars got one quick chance late, six on five, but it was already three to one, so it was pretty much over. And the Stars lose their second game in a row. They went three and 0 to start. Jake Hotinger made 19 saves on 21 shot attempts or shots on goal and takes his first loss as you talked about 100% points first three games, three wins. I don’t think they lose this game because of Jake Oinger. He was fine that the offense needed to be a little bit better. Yeah. Yeah. They had to find a way to get more more pucks into the dangerous area. And this was an important one for Bennington because while he was one and one, he got embarrassed in the first game against Minnesota. 5- nothing at home. goes on the road, gets a win, but his numbers aren’t great against the Canucks, but they got the win. And then tonight, 18 of 19. To me, he’s your star of the game, not because of the volume of shots, but because of the timeliness of the the real high danger, high quality ones. Bennington was ready and equal to that. I for some reason I think this B the re we we talk about Bennington stepping up to the challenge all the time and I I think the biggest challenge or the the biggest thing that he wanted to prove tonight was the guy at the other end of the rink. Yeah. You know because what’s what could be coming up for nations now we’re talking about Olympics. Yeah. and he I mean he he stepped up in the for nations and and I think he he wants to show that if if it is Jakeer and he may have another good game when they play Winnipeg and I I think that that’s the goalie who who Bennington is. Hey, I will say random thought shocker. I know, but uh I don’t know if we saw this. Thomas Harley took a shot to the hand. Did anyone see this at the end? I don’t know if it was a puck or if he got I think he was he blocked a shot with a puck. Um he was in a lot of pain holding his left hand on the bench at the end of that game. So, just I just got asked about it and I didn’t actually see it. So, something to keep an eye on like like a lot of pain bent over and holding. Could he play another shift after that though? That’s only 10 seconds left in the game. So, no. Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see because the Stars play again on Tuesday. They host the Columbus Blue Jackets. They have a day off tomorrow. They’ll have a practice Monday. We have a show Monday and then of course the uh the game Tuesday. It’s the only show we have four games. We have four games. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. Next week, we’ll take your super chats and more. Coming up on the DLS Stars Postgame show. I got to talk, huh? Newsletter. Oh, perfect. That’s easy. Guys, why have you not joined and signed up for the DLS newsletter? It’s amazing. 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We are going to have the people that bought tickets already in the studio to watch our pregame show eat with us at the uh Hooters next door and then we’re going to go get to the game and sit in the stands with you guys, hang out, watch the game, see Sydney Crosby and Kenny Malin, whoever else is still on that team and we’ll probably do it again. It sold really well. Die Hards got the first acknowledgement. They gobbled it up. Sign up to be a Die Hard. you get notice of those things in the Discord and those discounts. All right, let’s get to our super chats tonight and welcome. Any more super chats you’d like, hit us up right now, right here in YouTube as we are doing this live. So, Ryan, all right, Christopher with a Madano 99 Cup here. Hard to play confident physical hockey. Oh, he’s moving it on me. If you’re wondering if you’re in the right spot, St. Louis were playing 22-1 in the neutral zone at the red line and our defenseman couldn’t break it. Number five would help. Would Niels Lungquist help being in this game? We did see Murro Hasten a couple times call number and just beat the first four checker skated out of the zone. Yeah, but they’re okay with beating the first one because there’s going to be three other guys in the neutral zone, you know. So, and and the the whole thing about that is they are they’re together. They’re tight. So, it’s not like there’s one and then there’s, you know, another one, then there’s two or three. They’re tight. And so, you’re you’re having to go through at least four guys from one end of the rink to the other. Got a little bug over there. I think so. Yeah. You okay? Yeah. Okay. Eat no eyes. Go to FB99 with a Lungquist and year after the cup. Mo is your captain. End of story or your next captain. I actually agree with that. I think he would be the perfect captain. I know that there’s a lot of people saying that Wyatt Johnston because of his immaturity at at such a young age, but I’ll tell you what, Nico’s under a contract for eight years. We don’t know how much longer Jamie Ben’s going to play. He could come back, have a great year, and play again next year, right? I wonder luds if it’s hardware based win a championship might be ride off into the sunset or Jamie might play until they tell him we don’t want you to play anymore doesn’t feel like a ride into the sun is a hockey guy at heart that is his ident that’s who he is so I I don’t know I would not begin to try to be so presumptuous as to tell you what Jamie Ben’s plans are but if he is not on the stars I would personally and this is not just to pat Shawn on the back. Although he did make that prediction in the spring, I would go with Miko Ranton as your captain. Wasn’t Wasn’t Mero kind of anointed the next one and then it went from Miro to Wyatt? Well, there was a little while where we thought Wyatt because Jamie just kept on going. I don’t think it’s going to be Mo to be honest. I don’t think it’s going to be I think it’s going to be Wyatt 100%. I just think that he he has all the characteristics that you want in a captain. And the only thing I worry about with him getting fly. The only thing I worry about with Wyatt is he’s not very loud, right? And and Ben isn’t either. He’s very similar to Jamie. So, do they want that again? Well, Mo has, and this is not a a slight against anybody else, including Wyatt, but Mo is one of your top 10 guys, but he is also very comfortable being the guy that is the spokesperson. Luds, you have a big uh not soft spot. You really think that’s important for your big guys to step up when things aren’t going well and answer those and not just shove a third or fourth line guy or a rookie in front of the cameras? Not so much the camera. He’s got to be able to call you out his teammates. Yes. So, and again, never been in the room with Jamie. Don’t know how he goes about his business there. Um, but you have to and really you need the players that are doing it all the time because it’s really hard to call guys out when you’re not doing it yourself. And from what we’ve seen from from Wyatt or or Ranton, I mean either one of them, every every night they seem to give you everything that they that they have in the tank. So I I don’t know if there’s going to be a right or wrong answer with either one of those guys. So um we you know with the exception of you know Renon’s older, you know, he’s won a championship and not that that means that it should be should be or shouldn’t be him, but he can speak on a lot of things. He certainly has certainly has the hard work. He’s very different than the cuz Wyatt’s going to be here after he’s here more than likely. So maybe that’s a maybe but Mo is very different from the stereotypical Finnish player who’s very u reserves you know don’t they don’t say a lot. They let their actions do the talking. Um I guess maybe until you get to the sauna and get a few vodkas in them and maybe that’ll be a different story. But honestly, he seems like the guy that that is I mean, he’s just that leadership just naturally comes. It it it it seems like a natural fit to me. But again, you know, we’ll see how that goes. All right, go to the next one for me, Ryan. Bing bang. We have a Hkin and 99 from Talk Hockey with me. That’s our friend Jordan and she writes in, “Man, that game was frustrating, but I have to say that we really enjoyed being in St. Louis. 10 out of 10 recommend traveling to an away game. Go Stars. So Jordan was at the Enterprise Center tonight. Jordan, you get any uh BBQ or anything? That’s That’s an interesting one. You go from one BBQ spot to another, right? Well, Sam decided to do it in Colorado, which of course is the hot bed of That was cuz I went to a brewery just to try to get a a beer so LS would be proud of me. And then it was raining and the like closed. Well, you couldn’t go out in the rain. No, it was closed. He might have melted. They closed it down. So the only thing was there was barbecue. So, so you have some of the the most notable barbecue spots in the usually in the south, right? You have Texas, you have Kansas City, a little St. Louis style. Although I feel like Kansas City, Memphis, and Carolina are the big ones. Carolina? Really? Oh my god. I didn’t know that. You don’t know about the Carolina, the tangy barbecue sauce in Car. You were there. I was. I didn’t get any barbecue. Goodness, but he did it in Colorado. Luds, we got to get I don’t even know what I got. Where’s the Midwest? Did you let’s not to get this completely derailed because we we’ll get back to a couple things on this game, but when you were traveling with the stars for your road trips, did you have spots in the cities for food or were you not thinking about food when you That wasn’t the first thing on the list. If food came into the equation, he doesn’t think about food now. I know, but this is It was something on the ride home. Some place we went by on the ride home. Jack in the Box tacos. Yeah, something. And uh Jordan also said there is a St. Louis style pizza. Who knew? What is it? Or she didn’t say. Tell us. Or actually that was that’s simulated Jordan. There’s two different Jordans here. Jordan with a Y. Oh, GM Ben is trying to be uh let’s see. Oh, so Jordan said, “We flew in this afternoon, went to the game. We fly out in the morning. No barbecue time, but we’ll definitely come back.” There you go. All right. Um, one quick question followup from David wants to know how Darien Hatcher was in the room back in the day as pertaining to our captain’s conversation. Hatcher was actually pretty quiet, you know. Um, he he was very similar to Bob Gayy in a way, you know, when when Bob was in Montreal and with us there like he didn’t say a lot, but he knew the right time to say things. Hatch. I say this about Hatch and Brendan Mororrow and and now Jamie Ben and again not being in the room ever hearing Jamie talk to the players. They led by the way they played and they they just had you have a sense of the temperature of what’s going on and when things needed to be changed. They were the guys that would step up and do things that you’re not everybody will do and and so that was their particular way of leading. There was enough voices in in our group. I mean, you know, you got Brett Holland, you got Geek Carbono, and we had Scrudlin, and you know, so we we had a lot of guys in there. So, um, but yeah, we actually the the guy that was probably surprised the most when he got the letter was Darien. He sat there and had no idea. He’s he looked right because I was sitting next to him. He looks at me, he goes, “Huh?” I just went, “I don’t know. I guess.” Yeah. There you go. So, I have a question. Go ahead, Ryan. Who was the best room guy you’ve ever played with? Like the best what guy? Room guy. Yeah. Room or roommate? Room guy. Oh, roommate. We know. Yeah. Charles. Um, best room guy. Probably Mike Keane. Keener only because of And you can you know what? And you could throw Holly in there too like but in a different way. like they had a way of alleving pressure, you know, like when it was pressure moments, they could do something or say something and you guys could relax, you know, because you always got coaches breathing down your neck and saying all that kind of stuff. And so Kenir was one of the the best guys that I played with in Montreal and and here and that’s one of the reasons he was brought in here. Um, so but I I’ve I’ve had the luxury of playing with a a lot of really good players, especially in Montreal that when I was there, I was younger and obviously a lot of the the legends that were there and like Larry Robinson, Bob Gayy. Bob Bob was different. Um, so but I the first guy that comes to mind is probably Mike Keane. Who was the one who used to uh imitate Hitchcock? That’s Gener. I thought so. I just want to double check. Yeah. All right. Uh, quickly to wrap this one up, uh, who do you think the man of the match was tonight? Best player. Uh, and you can do one for stars and blues if you don’t want to be caught in the Owen getting called, what was it? Traitor. I don’t remember what it was because I just because I complimented Matt Baldy the other night. I I can’t I can’t disagree with you. I I I would go with bidding bington especially. I mean, he made a couple key saves tonight. So, that that’s the only reason I would take out Jake because the score was two to one for the you know, forget the uh Yeah, the empty net of course. So, but and I don’t think there was I don’t know any players that stood out on both sides. Kyu Kyru was good good skated well. But like I agree. I think I if I could give it to anyone, I’d give it to St. Louis’s team defending, right? Like that cuz Bennington didn’t have to be spectacular. He But he did have to make and those big those were the moments, Luds, that you talk about all the time. Yep. Yeah, that I I agree with Sam though, too, you know, and that would be giving it to the duck hunter. I mean, Monty had the speech, called out a couple guys, puts the system in play. You know, maybe he’s the unsung hero. The uh the guys that led the way in scoring chances tonight. Uh Wyatt had five. Mo had four. Robo had four. Nobody else had more than two. There were some guys for the Dallas that were empty tonight. Duchain and Sean didn’t have any. Harley, we know he may be under the weather. Didn’t have any. Uh Steel, Blackwell, Foxa, uh Miro, no scoring chances. Bunch of people in the chat and this is the last thing I want to throw at you is asking if Miro’s not feeling well or if he’s had a slow start to the year. I don’t think they’re necessarily seeing some of the things that Mero does on a nighttoight basis cuz I felt he’s been fine. A couple people tonight thought he was awful and should have been healthy scratched which sounds ridiculous. But I’m I’m assuming when they bring him up like you don’t see Mural skating up through the through the ice with a puck. This team doesn’t let you do that, you know. So, I I think sometimes you’re going to it’s going to seem like some players had some off nights, but they had nowhere to go. I mean, there just wasn’t a lot of space out there against the Blues tonight. There’s a last thing I want to add because a bunch of people saying talking about food, the St. Louis style pizza, which I’m not super familiar with, but I will tell you if you go to St. Louis, the regional dish that you need to try is toasted raviolis. Those are very good. Brian Ray swears by them. He’s a St. Louis native. Check them out. We are off tomorrow. We’ll be back on Monday 2 o’clock for our regular show. The stars will have practice. So, we’ll keep an eye on Nils Lungquist and everybody else. For Craig Lewig, Sam Nestler, for Ryan Fers, and all of you in our chat tonight. Thanks for joining us. I’m Owen Newkerk. We’ll see you Monday. Have a great rest of your weekend. I wanted to say all the Cwords.

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Mikko Rantanen’s goal with 2:18 left in regulation spoiled Jordan Binnington’s shutout bid, as the St. Louis Blues beat the Dallas Stars 3-1 on Saturday night at Enterprise Center. Jordan Kyrou and Jimmy Snuggerud each scored second period goals and Pius Suter added an empty-netter to round out the offense for the Blues. Wyatt Johnston had the primary assist on Rantanen’s goal, but had his season-opening four-game goal streak snapped. Join the DLLS Stars Post Game Show as we break down all the action from tonight’s game, discuss the key storylines and take your Super Chats.

00:00 Intro
01:55 Recapping the Stars Loss to the Blues
23;:04 Breaking Down the Game
47:30 Superchats
48:35 Who Will Get The “C” After Jamie Benn?

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