Johnston Scores Twice, Birthday Boy Oettinger Shines As Stars Out-Gun Sharks 5-3

Johnston Scores Twice, Birthday Boy Oettinger Shines As Stars Out-Gun Sharks 5-3

Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Good evening everybody. This is the DLLS Stars postgame show. A little Stars after dark action tonight. Late night hockey as Dallas gets the win, beating the San Jose Sharks tonight by a 5-3 score line. If you’re not sure, just check above my forehead. You’ll see the score as we are ready to go. Don Shapiro, Craig Ledwick, Sam Nestler, our producer Ryan VA. Before we get into tonight’s action, let’s remind everybody we have a brand new hat collection available on the DLS website. Look at those beauties, including the stars one. Bright green. You know you love it. Get yours today. Go to alldls.com. It’s a branded Bills snapback. goodlooking hats. And of course, we’re going to hear more about it from LDS in about 45 minutes or so. But until then, let’s get into this one, guys. >> How do you spell effective? >> No, it’s >> with an e. >> Yes, >> it starts. Okay, thank you. >> Do you want to go any further with that one, Sam? >> No, carry on. >> Okay, that’s a nonsequittor. And that was weird. And I guess Sean I was I was >> Yeah, >> might as well get right. >> I was ready to take the heat from that. I mean, I I believe in the last year, I have completely worked on effectively taking that word out of my vocabulary as much as possible for the amount of time >> I can pause it effectively. >> I was just typing in my article. I wasn’t making fun of you. >> Oh dear. Oh dear. It’s going to be a long night, isn’t it? All right, let’s go to the guys on the other side of the screen here. What are your initial thoughts of this one? Stars never trailed. But boy, that San Jose Sharks team, they don’t quit, do they? >> I would say that this uh what’s that kid’s name? Cabbrini. Mlin Cabbrini kid. >> Heard of him? >> He’s uh he’s a pretty good player. >> Might have a future in this hockey thing. >> Yeah. You know, Sean, he’s one of those guys that it probably doesn’t even do it justice to watch him on TV. You you need to be there >> in person. And I can imagine I can imagine if they’re well they’re probably were well they all were to me but but just sitting on the bench and and seeing a guy like that live like you’re pl as an opponent going >> yeah my my lace broke and my stick I got to tape my stick right now because he’s out there. I’ll be right back. Yeah, he’s one of those guys that he’s an electric he’s an electric player. you know, if they they ever go ahead and find the right people to surround him on that team, um you know, they’re heading in the right direction with that kid. >> One of the things that uh stood out to me from so um I watched the second period, I think it was uh second period and then the first half of the third period, I switched over to the San Jose broadcast because I like kind of hearing what other teams have to say and other broadcasters have to say when it comes to Dallas. And um they made the note that this was the third straight game that Celbrini has played with uh different wingers. Third straight game he’s played with different wingers. And so that is a uh to me that that stands out pretty notably, right? Like if you were to watch that game in a vacuum and you see what he does and you see him play with those guys and you’re like, “Oh, well this is a like that’s a that’s some great chemistry with those guys.” And he does have chemistry with those guys. Not to say that, but like this is he’s doing it with everyone right now. And if you you went back and watched what he’s done recently. Like he is there’s a reason he went number one overall. There’s a reason that he’s in these Hockey Canada conversations, he is like when you talk about the kind of the players you build a franchise around, that’s what he is. And that’s it’s >> he he’s fun to watch. And I hope it’s it’s like if you watch tonight, tell me you don’t tell me you don’t want to watch more Sharks hockey just to watch him again. Like if tonight was your your kind of taste of what he is. So >> you look at that quote or that comment that Jerry just made that Ryan had on the screen. He says he is like he’s like McDavid McKinnon and the like where he has the puck, you kind of hold your breath. He churns his feet like McD or excuse me like McKinnon, right? McDavid’s got those fast, quick strides, but McKinnon sort of has the the choppy feet, but he gets going re, you know, you can just see him, but he’s he’s a little bit more I don’t know if graceful is the right word because McKinnon is just like a freight train. Once he gets going, he’s just going to bl plow through. I feel like he’s sort of a little bit of a a combination. Cabbrini is of a little bit of each of those guys. Yeah, McKinnon for me is that explosive explosive powerful guy, but but Celbrraini is he’s like a water bug, you know what I mean? You can he’s all over the map and I can imagine how tough it is, you know, trying to he’s he’s one of them that you you really don’t want to line up, you know what I mean, for one of them open ice hits because he’ll make you look foolish. But um yeah, he he’s a special kid. >> He’s got his head. >> Yeah. See how high he holds his head up. >> Oh yeah. He’s also he’s also such a Luds. I’m curious as you you work with guys who are you coach the 18U team. You coach guys kind of to me he’s one of the watching. He’s one of the most effective fun players to watch. He doesn’t rely on that mohawk style. It’s not something he ever relies on but like sometimes you see players use that as like as a crutch. It’s just for him, it’s such a tool in the bag where he is so the the amount of space he’s able to take. I’d be fascinated if someone was to go and do a study on like how much space he can change directions within that six foot within that small small radius in the circle just with the way he works off his mo off the mohawk edges and everything like that because there’s a lot of players that do it. Why Sam? I’m drawing a blank on the Stars prospect who overly skates that way. >> Stranges. >> Strangess who where him for him it’s it’s just a tool that as as as you said lads like there’s he finds ways to create additional angles that um that other people just don’t even know exist out there. >> Yeah. I the word that comes to me is escapability. like he’s >> he’s able to escape areas and in tight areas and like you say, he doesn’t use it all the time. So for the guys that use it all the time, remember back in the day, well I the first time I ever saw it was by Alfie Dalan. It was the first guy that I ever saw use it a lot and I I was kind of baffled by it like what are you doing? What’s wrong with him? But he was able to, you know, turn him, you know, 10 and two. And but then I I told the guys this last year that then rules were a little bit different. He wasn’t he wasn’t the escapability wasn’t there because what I would do because I ultimately got to play with him, but playing against him, I found it pretty easy because alls I would do is I’d take my stick and I’ as soon as he go to 10 and two, I’d just stick take my stick and I’d stick between his legs because now he can’t cross over anymore. And all you had to do is you just got to get him and then push yourself into him so he doesn’t fall down because ultimately it’d be a I don’t know how many times I probably held him up so that he actually didn’t fall so he didn’t you know and he wasn’t but Alfie wasn’t a guy that had a lot of speed either. He used it a lot. He used it quite a bit and it I think it was hard for a lot of us because we had never really seen it before. Now it just seems to be something they can all do but this one here is he does it he does it at full speed. >> Yeah, guys. The birthday boy today, Jakeer, I thought played a heck of a hockey game, especially considering it’s a 5-3 game. A lot of times you look at that score line and kind of dismiss the goalending a little bit as well, you know, whatever. But goending was a huge part of this game, both good and bad. We’ll get into that, but I thought that Jake, I mean, he finished with 34 saves. This is another one of those games where if you just looked at the final score, you’d think, “Oh, the Stars had this in hand.” And they never trailed in this game. However, in large pockets, the Sharks had momentum. They were pushing and Jake was the one that kept San Jose from tying the game at any point and ultimately coming back and maybe getting something out of it. >> Yeah, for me, I don’t I don’t I don’t know if Jake will be maybe in for Dallas, guys, he will. probably won’t come out of this with a star, but he was that unsung hero for for I I just think that there there was there was too much actually that I felt was going on in front of him um coverage wise and just little things that were happening in front of him that shouldn’t have we we’ve seen the guys play a little bit better in front of him. So, I I thought he needed to be he needed to be good early and uh throughout the game. >> That was the key, right? We’ve talked about his his struggles early lately and last time we did this actually the afterdark situation we was let it a soft goal and then play really well. He didn’t do that tonight and San Jose was the better team early on. Stars were having a little bit of a breakdown and then later which I’m sure we’ll talk about. He he made the saves he needed to to keep him in the game and then later he made two or three >> stealing goals from CBrini and other guys. So, um, really good game for him tonight and he’s put starting to put a lot of those really good games together. >> It’s it’s interesting looking at it too with the juxosition. Obviously, we’ll talk about the the game-winning goal for Dallas, right? And we’ll talk about the decision- making that happened on that, but um, for me, I think it was it was either the third or fourth shot of the game the Sharks had. Um, and I don’t unfortunately I can’t remember who had it, but third or fourth shot of the game coming down the coming down to Jake’s right. He’s basically on the right post. He’s basically on the right post and it’s it it’s one of those plays that in in the grand scheme of things doesn’t look like a big play and it’s not right. It’s coming down the right side and it’s shot right in and it’s a shot about six, seven inches off the ice, right pad height and and he just he just gobbles it up. Gobbles it up and holds it. That’s the type of play that as silly and as boring as that play is, that really solid. That’s the type of play for me that solidified what Jake was this game. He doesn’t create more. It’s it’s it that’s one where the guy at the other end of the ice tonight turned those into rebounds that the Stars hopped on. The There’s other goalies where that maybe turns into something else. And I know Jake faced 34 shots tonight, right? I would guess if we were to go through and really take a deep dive and break through some of the video control, some of the the control of the rebound control here, this might be a 40 shot night if Jake probably stops this from becoming a 40 shot night simply by limiting some of the damage he did even before became those opportunities. And I think that first period, right, like I know the Stars the the the goal gets over the the high stick goal gets overturned which which helps but this is a game where without Jake’s work without kind of his solidity, his calmness in the first period here, you could easily look at this as maybe this might be a two- two game. could be a 2-1 game at the end of the first period and the Stars aren’t in the opportunity that they have to take advantage of a gaff at the other end like like they do at the end of the second there. When you look back at this one, and we’ll go through it after the ad break, Luds, are you feeling like this team uh is doing enough of, you know, they’re they’re I was t texting with Sean right before we went on tonight uh for postgame tonight, and I said to him, I feel like they’re the second best team for a for too many minutes of a game like this one, especially with the five on five play, But boy are they good at special teams and goalending. It’s a conversation we’ve had for a while now. It feels like they’re built to win close playoff games. But in a game like this, you know, maybe I don’t know if I want to maybe maybe I’m not giving the Sharks enough credit. I guess I’m thinking of, you know, you have a 3-1 lead. You had that overturn goal. It goes in your favor. Would you have liked to have seen them maybe get the fourth one earlier and put them away because San Jose or we should we just say simply, hey, you found a way to win a hockey game. Let’s not get too, you know, splitting of hairs here. >> I think I think I’m at the point where I’m I’m kind of describing this team as a team that can outscore its mistakes. you know, they just they they have that ability to again with what Ranton does and you know, hints and all the top guys why they’re they are they’re big- time guys. They score goals. Ranton again with a couple of the passes and the plays that he made tonight, the pass that he made to Hint, the one that he made to Wyatt, those aren’t just normal passes. He did a couple different things on those passes that he that other players wouldn’t do. they wouldn’t see the holes there. They wouldn’t know how to brush a puck off off of a a player that’s got a stick out and perfect stick on puck kind of thing and just the way that he brushes it off to get it to Wyatt in that spot. Um, you know, they’ve got that big play guy. So, when you have these pockets and then now you’ve got Jake, I mean, we’ve been talking about Jake and Jake comes up and makes those saves at those moments and then these guys can go down and and score a goal and and so you if they ever get to where they’re you’re never flawless, but if you ever get to where you’re really good in your own zone, you know, but again, I there’s no perfect team out there. Um, but but what these guys can do, they believe in what they’re doing. And I think that’s why I I think that’s why they get extra rope, you know, and you don’t want to type. You don’t want to you don’t want to have some of these guys on a short leash because they have the ability to come back like they do, score that timely goal, and it’s impressive what they’re doing. >> All right, we are going to break all this down. I have a follow-up for it, but we have to hit an ad break. Let’s stay on time because this is after all Stars After Dark and lot more to get to. Goals, screenshots, maybe even a video clip from the pregame show. All that and more coming up on the DLS Stars postgame. >> Oh no. >> What kind of dreams did you have when you were a kid? What did you want to be when you grew up? Besides, you know, the starting shorts stop of the Boston Red Sox, but hey, I was from New England, still am. Maybe you wanted to be Mike Madano. Or even better, how about Craig Lewick? 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And before we get into the breakdown, I wanted to go back to Luds on You were talking about my previous question about how to feel about this. And I’m not trying to say that the Stars game wasn’t good enough or hey, should we apologize for wins? No, of course not. We never do. I guess I’m getting greedy because I want to see them start to suffocate games with the lead like say the Florida Panthers are capable of doing. And to your point, that may not be something they did it against New Jersey, but that may be more of an outlier. It may still be that even though this team is not the Pete Dbor run team, which was all about transition and rush chances, they still have quite a lot of that in their identity. >> Yeah. I mean, again, I I I think that just because they they bring a new coach in here, it’s not like he’s going to remake this whole team and he’s going to take players and turn them into players that they’re not. You just all you do is you let those guys run and do what they do and you try to pop prop up the other ones and fine-tune a little bit from in the defensive zone. I mean, and that’s what we were complaining about for the most part everything every single game last year. And I think they’re they’re doing there’s still there’s still times I think that they’re still not just kind of it’s not muscle memory yet and there’s still a little hesitation and and going to where you’re supposed to be at times. But you know from in my opinion from from their own blue line to the other end of the rink I mean man I I don’t know I don’t know what more you can actually say about them and what what you’d really want to tweak because they they just they’re able to pull it off. Luds, I’m curious because I’m seeing this in our chat and I’ve been seeing it on social media, not just tonight, but in general, you’re not Are you worried about this team with what all the stuff you’re saying? Because I mean, I understand there’s things they need to work on, but you don’t you don’t get lucky to the second best record in the NHL and this good. You can get lucky and get a couple of those wins obviously or get great goalending one night when you steal one, but you don’t get you don’t just keep getting lucky in a league that’s this good. So, are you are you worried or are we just nitpicking because we know this team can be that much better? >> Well, Sam, you know me, I’m always nitpicking. You know, I’m that guy that knows that you can’t play a perfect game, but you got to be as close to per if you aim for perfect and you fall on great, that’s probably pretty good because you’re not going to land on perfect. But I I I think until for me, the jury is still out. until you play Colorado a couple different times. Let’s let’s get and play couple let’s play Minnesota Wild a couple times now that they’ve got Hughes and what’s going to happen there. And then I I would say if you when you play Carolina, there’s a couple teams on the other side and I think once you play those top teams from the East and there’s not as many. It doesn’t seem to stand out, but the teams that you’re unfortunately all three of them are probably going to be at the top here. Until you play those guys two, three times or whatever time you’re going to do it to me that’s going to tell you a lot. It’s gonna tell you a lot more than playing against, you know, these teams and and even Anaheim tomorrow night. We know Anaheim’s a good team, but I over a course of a seven game series. I I fully confident that the Stars would win that series. So, I I just want to be able to see what they do and and it’s more in the zone. It’s more in the zone. Um obviously in their own zone and then I am curious to see if teams can actually do anything against them to frustrate them. Yeah, I don’t think they’ve been frustrated yet. If they’ve been frustrated in games, it’s probably because they’re fatigued from a from a schedule standpoint and they they’re they’re frustrated because they they don’t have the gas to compete in a couple games like they’re like they want to and they have to. So, um that that’s where that’s where I am. And and then again, if Jake gets on his game, there you go. you know, now you Jake Jake is the one that can probably be the guy with this team and in what they’re trying to accomplish here. Just make the saves that you’re supposed to make and then come up with a couple big ones every once in a while. You know, your guys, that’s why I think Sean, I think for a goalender being Jake, Jake Jake or Casey, you let in a goal early, you’re not panicking like a few other teams in this league because you know you’re getting support at the other end of the ring. I I think it’s kind of to kind of build off that LS. Um whether I know it’s not the the sexiest way to get win games and people kind of look for it this way, but this team is comfortable being uncomfortable. Let’s just like let’s let’s call it what it is, right? Like the most one of the most tense versions of a hockey game is a tie hockey game. The Stars have played the fifth most amount of minutes in the NHL this year tied. 821 minutes this year tied so far this season. Um they are they have played the fourth least they’ve only they’ve only they’ve trailed the only they have the fourth least amount of minutes trailing. Um obviously Colorado Colorado is the least amount of minutes trailing. They are but they are like 15th in the league when it comes to minutes spent leading seven. They’ve been in the league for 700 minutes this season. When the Stars are a team and it part of goalending is part of your people always say like oh well goending bails them out. Goending’s part of the team. Let’s The Stars are >> part of the team. >> Yeah, the Stars are spending are spending that much money on Jake for a reason. They’re they they got they got pretty fortunate with finding the right deal with Casey to Smith that way. And so I I look at this Stars team where is it the would you like to go see him run some teams out of the water a little bit more often? Of course. It would make life a lot easier for us. I mean it would be I mean it’s but the reality is this team has is comfortably is comfortable being uncomfortable in situations that a lot of teams crumble in. And it also has the there they also have a bit of that inevitability about them right like right now like you go and you watch Dallas and watch a ton of hockey. I go and watch and and there’s and I see in college hockey you see at whatever level the good teams are ones where you go and you see it’s a two- two game it’s a two- two game and you don’t know how a team is going to win like just like Dallas tonight right like it’s if it’s it’s a it’s a game you it’s a tie game it’s a close game you don’t know how they’re going to win but you have a feeling like okay I know at some point there is going to be a difference that they are going to capitalize on a mistake or they’re not going to make the mistake they’re going to wait for the other team to make stick. Like it’s there’s that I think that inevitability so often we’re like ah they’re what wait until they get a good team. Wait till they face a good team. Team is the second best record in the league and they they Yeah. And they have the second best goal differential in the league. And like if the Colorado Avalanche were just >> like if if if this team is in any other division, we’re not nitpicking at all, right? Like just let’s let’s let’s call it what it is, right? Like if this team is in a >> if if this team’s in any other division, it’s like all right, well, we’re just getting ready for like I mean like what we worry about that when we get to the Western Conference Final or that that’s it’s it’s just the wild circumstance of this to me where this team because of the comparison and who they have to compete with in this division and who we know they’ll have to play. They’re going to have to it’s going to be a bloodbath in the first round against the Wild. I am so excited for that series. It’s going to be a great hockey chess match. Two teams are going to beat the hell out of each other. Then whoever wins that’s going to go have to beat the hell out of themselves again when they play Colorado. It’s not fair. And because of that, that’s why we bring in these these extra levels of this. But this Stars team, and I’ve said it so many times now, they have some problems that really there are 28 other teams in the league would kill to have right now. And I mean, look at that San Jose team there and you look at the way that they ran into I think they’re like I I I caught I caught about five minutes of their postgame show and I think it was um I think we might have had Randy on on on our on our show um one of our all 32. Maybe we didn’t. But either way, they’re they’re talking. We had we had Ted who’s their radio host and does some TV for them and then we had Shangh, >> but Ry’s great too. >> Yeah. But but they’re talking about the moral victories against playing Dallas and they’re like and they’re like they’re like well this is this is a moral victory because you went toe-to-toe with a team that good. You went toe-to-toe with a team that is the bar for the league. You went toe-to-toe with a team that you know they’re going to find a way to break you at some point. you didn’t do it tonight, but some point you will learn how to break teams the way they break teams. And I know there’s a lot of Stars fans who watch this team over and over again and see all the flaws and see that. But there are so often times where I watch this team play and it doesn’t have to be this way. It it’s not always the exact same formula every single night. Tonight it was Jakeer and the team and and Justin Ritzkovian being in the right spot at the right time. But this team finds ways to be inevitable and break others. It just sucks. >> Yeah. >> Everything that you said >> because I was gonna I wanted to say something about your comfortable being uncomfortable. >> Everything that you just said about the Dallas Stars, I don’t think they’re ever uncomfortable. I I don’t I I think they’re confident. I think that they they now know there’s no reason to be uncomfortable with this group. I I that’s a because I’ i’ve been on a couple teams and yeah, the Cup teams were like that, but there were times when you you know, you kind of hit the wall and you’re not things aren’t going the way you are, but it it was always like you have the confidence that >> we’re going to be fine. You know what I mean? Especially in the regular season. Yeah, you get a little tight sometimes in playoff games and things like that because you expect certain things out of yourselves, but I just I just think this team is a they’re a confident group and they know they’re not going to win the next 44 games or whatever’s left. They’re not going to win all of those games, but I believe that their their focus is the right, you know, to game 83 and things like that. So, >> is this like let’s let’s let’s let’s just play this out real quick. So, one of the teams I always think about is that that Tampa team that won the President’s Trophy, then got swept by Columbus in the first round, right? >> Matt Jane and Columbus. >> Yeah. The Stars, they’re going to get Minnesota in the first round. They’re going to lose one of the first two games of the series. Like that’s just that’s that’s probably a reality, right? They’re going to get Minnesota in the first round. They’re probably going to be a one-1 series game. They’re probably going to lose game one. And we’re going to sit here and be like, “All right, this is what they’ve dealt with all year. They’ve dealt with this where there’s teams that have gone and Oh, yeah. Perfect example right there. Good job. I love Misty.” They’re like it’s the it’s there’s there’s teams that are good and run away with things in the regular season and that just end up getting their face smashed in in the postseason because they aren’t ready for that adversity and they haven’t figured and they haven’t and yes, you’d love to win every game ain’t nothing and it’s I just I think this Stars team and it’s I love this show and I love how critical the listeners and readers of this site are because that means that’s how closely they’re paying attention and that’s that’s passion and everything like that. So I love all that. So I’m not trying to squash any of that. I just want to bring a little bit of this like larger world view of you are the monster and that’s okay, right? Like the stars are one of the monsters and it’s you might not be the sexy monster but you are the monster that kills people. Man, >> I didn’t get to be the sexy monster. I love it. All right. U up next, let’s break it all down. 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An absolutely gorgeous play by uh well first Lindell had the initial pass and then Rancin with the the primary one, but this is an all finished goal right here. >> Yeah, it was nice to see at the end of it all four of the pins on the ice come together and they get that shot of him. But yeah, Randon does something through the middle of the ice to get himself over to the other side. And what was nice about it is Essa makes this little bank pass off the back wall and actually puts it right on the forehand of uh of Mo, but to me the smart play was from the goal scorer. Uh I just think that when Hint came off, he comes off the bench in this one so everybody doesn’t see him, but he slows up as he starts coming into the slot because he doesn’t want to get in there and get because Esa actually still had the puck on the wall when Hint is coming across that blue line. So he slows up once he gets about to the top of the circle so he doesn’t skate himself into a bad spot and skate himself into a defenseman down low in front of the goalender and then he just stays out high and then the pass that that that Mo makes I mean between the legs of I think it’s Ferraro as a defenseman but I mean he he spots a lane between the feet of the defenseman puts it right on the tape and then it’s just redirected into the net. So yeah and the all four of them had something to do with this one. Great goal by hints. His 10th of the year. Ranton and continues to pile up assists. He’ll have another one later. And then we have the no goal. Zack Ostabchuk had a double deflection. Ryan Reeves who had a great a chance right before that. Again, what are we doing? But great opportunity. He had a couple good looks tonight. Did Reeves. He gets a I think it was a double deflection here. I think Reeves tipped it legally below the crossbar and I think was the one that hit it above the cross. Took a long time for the review. This was an official review, not a challenge by the stars and as they did it eventually decided to pull it off the board. So it would have been 1-1 stayed one- nothing. Yeah, it I was Did you guys So, did they have a better angle that they didn’t show us on the broadcast? Because like it was to me it was I’m it probably was the right call, but it was with these angles, right? Like it’s hard to unless there’s a camera even with the crossbar because they called it for being above the crossbar. And I I think it was the right call, but it’s just from a angle perspective. I’ I’d love to see the angle just to that that flat angle, I guess, to call it from under there because it’s hard for me with all of these on all these all of these these clips I’ve seen don’t show me the distinct evidence that it was that it was a high stick. I believe it was. I just I would like I would like for the NHL just to show me that so I could then be like, “Oh, yeah, there it is.” I’d like to be able to just show that image as opposed to the side angle and everything that we have to show right now. >> And uh this is something that our producer Ryan would probably be the best to answer because of his extensive background in TV, but there are some buildings and Sean, you know this too, that have more camera angles than other actually. Luds, you know, when you were doing your uh color analyst analysis with Razer for a couple years, you’ll know that when you travel the league, some places you just don’t have as many options as far as cameras available. Others you do. Dallas usually has a lot of cameras. They’re pretty high-end operation as far as TV goes. Whether it’s the super slow-mos or some of the handhelds that they can get extra looks, you just don’t necessarily get that in every building. There’s also there’s >> there’s al there’s also oh and there’s also angles that the league has that we sometimes just don’t get right like it’s the whole like I they they just don’t end up in the broadcast and I think this is one of those where again I think it’s the right call. It’s one where so often we get the little explanation from the league with the email of like, oh, at this time at at n at 1752 in game 755 this happened and this happened and it’s not it’s just a little legal ease paragraph in a press release. I just wish the league would just be like here’s the screen grab people just leave it just just like this that’s on just just show me. So, >> well, it led to >> it led to Wyatt Johnson giving the start the two nothing lead because they waved off the OEP Chuck goal and Wyatt, if we were at all concerned in the pregame show as we were talking about, is he going to break out? This is the kind of goal that you need to see every now and then from Wyatt Johnson. This was a thing of beauty. >> Yeah, th this is a rocket. But this is a result of a team again that plays man-on-man. And it all started on the other side of the ice and two I think it was Duchain and Ranton uh in the corner. Two of their forwards go over there. They follow him outside the middle of the ice to the other side of the middle of the ice. And then Clingberg tries to go over and play man-on-man with wide and he gives him the little shimmy shake and then this is just a rocket that’s over the goes over the glove head of uh the goalender. I I just thought it was a bullet. But but again, all this ice opens up for Wyatt in the middle of the ice because two of the San Jose players want to, you know, chase a couple guys on the other side. But it’s that release that Wyatt has is just that quick little snapshot of his. And very rarely do you ever see Wyatt when he goes upstairs. Can you remember the last time he actually missed the the net over the top of the net? >> Yeah. And what a what a little you you mentioned it. I don’t know what word you use, but the shimmy shake or whatever. It’s almost like a little bit of a rocker move. I think basketball does it, lacrosse does it a lot where you’re just trying to sell that you are thinking about either turning back, spinning back, taking a step back. He literally puts his weight all on his back foot like he’s going to spin to his backhand. Clingberg completely falls for it and all you need is this much space. Especially if you’re Wyatt, you just open up, get the shot, but he puts that weight, jams his his right skate into the into the ice and goes and he just creates enough to get that shot off. That’s that’s thinking three steps ahead. And that’s what we see not not that Wyatt couldn’t do it before, but that’s what we see Mico Randon do all the time, right? He’s he’s two steps ahead when he gets the puck. That’s starting to rub off on some of these guys who now can make plays before they even have the puck. I I just thought that was such a nice move. >> All right, let’s go to the second period now. And Sam, have you practiced your pronunciation of >> Muka Madulan? >> Muka Madulan. He was involved. He was involved in this game. >> He gets a goal. It’s funny because they actually had a much better chance to start the period from Mlin Celabbrini from the right circle. A huge post-apost save from Auter and then this one from the point. I never really You talk about camera angles. I never really saw a great look of how this one went in. But here are some screenshots to take you through this faceoff that led to the goal. >> I don’t want to say his name, so somebody else do it. Owen, give the playbyplay. >> Well, Muka Mullan, >> there you go. That guy scores the goal. Hey, here’s what happened. A couple times tonight, couple times tonight, a couple centermen got beat on draws. Maverick gets Maverick gets beat on this one. And there was an angle that I thought I saw at the end that Mav It may have hit Mavic because that went back to Jake’s left somehow. And and I and obviously the defenseman gets the goal. So it hit one of the stars and I I believe that after Maverick lost that draw and he starts to go out and then he comes back to the middle. He’s kind of battling with somebody. I think he gets his stick is on the ice and I think it just touches his stick and goes to Jack Jake’s left. >> Yeah, Dandrio was the one that was in front. He clearly did not touch it because he refused to claim that and go to the front of the the handshake line, but the goal counts. It’s two to one. The crowd’s into it and then Dallas gets the power play. And boy is this I mean look for all the and I think justifiable nitpicking that we’re doing because as Led said and Sean both you guys really dug through this the way to get yourself ready for the unbelievable expectations of if you don’t do it in the playoffs the rest of the regular season just isn’t you know that’s not where you’re being judged but you still have to go through it is to push and and fine-tune and as Led said always strive for the perfect game even if you know you’ll never actually get to to it. Well, this power play is darn near close to perfect. >> Yeah, >> go ahead, Sean. >> It’s what it was 30 what 36 seconds of power play time tonight and that’s all they had and this was I mean for from a the way they from the puck movement here to the the way everything pings and every like it looks like a set play. And it probably is. I mean, honestly, it is it is a set play. It’s something they work on in practice all the time. Sam can tell us that. But I mean, it is. Did after did anyone else watch this play? And I didn’t know it was why Johnson, who it was, but once the puck went to Ranton in there, kind of knew it was going to be a goal. I mean, and for me, Luds, interesting spot. I just Luds from a defending perspective, I think 30. I think that’s Ferraro right there. If you go back one more frame, Ryan, >> that was Lillian on was at the top run on on Ren. >> So LS from a defending perspective and a lot of times we talk about where a working below the goal line and everything like that, but isn’t there such a subtle brilliance here to rant where Ranton is right there? Like look at his feet right there. because of where he is. He has the shot pass option and him being a left-handed shot right there. He has the ability to Isn’t Isn’t there a subtle brillness subtle brilliance there with Rant and with the where he doesn’t go so far behind the net where the defender has to come and play him aggressively even more so because he can’t just take the pass, right? And I it’s I it’s one of those things that I just look at where there’s so many cool little things about Mo’s game that I just find enjoying every time I watch him. And this one I just got overly excited about watching where his feet were because it opened up an extra half an inch. Not that he needed with how good of a passer he is, but those are all the things that elite players do in minuscule moments. And then why Johnson just cleans it all up. So, >> so, hey Ryan, go back to the the last clips you were using there and go go to where we’re at and Okay, so this one here and look at and this is what the defenseman will do. So, I believe that this is Lilligrin. I I think >> yes, it is 37. >> Okay, so Lilligren’s going stick on puck. Right thing to do. Look at what Randon does now. Go to the next frame. >> Nope. You got one more. Yeah, you missed one right there. that one. That frame right there. What he’s doing. Okay. Now, go one just before that where he had the puck stick straight out right there. Right now, he’s going from this frame to that next one. Right now, the stick is on the puck. When Ren stands up and he pulls that stick in to his body and he lifts his right hand up, he’s brushing that puck off. He’s brushing it and it’s going on the inside of the heel of that defenseman’s stick. I mean, it’s so brilliant that little pass because he doesn’t even pass it hard. He pulls the puck in and brushes it off at the at the same time. So, it misses that stick blade and it misses the heel of that stick. And that’s right where Wyatt is standing. And then he just stands there and says, “Okay, Wyatt, put it in the net.” I mean, it was such it’s such a a touch little pass what he does because as a defenseman, you’re like, “I I did everything right. There’s no way that guy should be able to do that from there with that pass because I think it was hints that put that puck down to him and he gave him a hard pass. But to be able to to do that all in one motion, see where wide is, it it it’s just it’s again I I’m blown away by by Mo a lot what he does with the puck and and and he really he stands there after he’s done making these little plays and when he gives it to someone like Robo or Hint or Wyatt, he just he I believe he thinks, well, this is a good goal. this is a goal because he just puts it right in the wheelhouse of Wyatt and and for the life of me the guy the kid leads the league in power play goals. I don’t know why you just don’t say I’m taking I’m taking the poison away. >> You know why Luds? Because if they do Jason Robertson is wide open. >> Else do it. That’s fine. But that’s fine. But that’s best guy in the league right now. >> He’s not going to beat us. We’re not going to let him do it. >> The thing else >> I want to go quickly back and then we got to get to the ad break. Uh Sean, when you talked about that set play of the triangle, this power play is so efficient right now and they know each other so well that they have multiple plays that they’ve worked on countless times that they can identify and execute from their initial perimeter setup, right? And it was one of those things where Miro plays it over to Hints and Hints immediately turns and just sees Ranson and and he’s like, “Okay, this is on tic-tac-toe and it’s in.” But if that’s not available, some if Lilligrin was two steps closer, he’s looking at Robo back door. He’s taking his time. They have a way of sort of lulling teams into positions and then manipulating based on what’s in front of them. And that to me is a very elite level of power play. It’s um and I know we got to go to the ad break, but it to me we’ve talked a lot about Miko Randon this year obvious for obviously reasons and to me we’ve talked about the moving out of the shadow of other team of the of his prior teammates, right? Like he was second fiddle with Kale Mar and Nathan McKinnon. That’s just the reality. That’s how it was. Um, I think it’s been really fun to watch him move to a power play where it is built on the touch passing is built on that because so much of the the Mar McKinnon power play is built off of a little bit of that twoman game and the power within moments where you don’t expect it. And even though Miko is has the moose nickname and brings all the power and everything like that, there’s so much touch and there’s so much scalp there’s so much of using a scalpel in a fine moment that comes out of this that I think has just been able to kind of soar with this where I think he obviously had the power play points in Colorado, but I think this power play is set up a little bit more to run through him this way even if he is not the primary puck carrier. Uh, so it’s just it’s he’s all he he’s always the primary impactor of the play even though he’s not always the primary puck carrier when they have the five on four. >> All right, we got to get to the ad break and coming up we still have four more goals in your super chats to get to here on the DLS Stars postcame show. >> Ryan, let’s go to let let’s because we the first goal we saw all four fins. So let’s go to the Finnish mafia shirt. >> Let’s let’s start with that one. That’s our best our best shirt, I think. Well, I don’t know. And then uh well, since uh let’s see. Well, now let’s go to the Moose shirt. We keep on talking about the Moose. Let’s go to the one of one of Mo’s shirts. All right. And then we’ve also got to talk about the Wyatt Johnston 16bit, I believe. I don’t know. 16, 18, 14, whatever. There it is. All right. And now let’s look at them beautiful hats that Sam is probably going to get way before I get even though I paid extra to get them here early. So, uh, and I did order the green and the white one. So, uh, and I’m still confused with the Cadillac logo over on the side, but those are our DLLS hats. Sam, why don’t you take it away? That’s got to be about a minute or so. >> Yeah, it’s probably close. I I have some interesting stuff to tell you, lads. That finished mafia shirt. Someone told me to look look at this company. I’ll look up the name and I’ll probably write about this when I ask Mo. But Miko Ranton, they named a disc golf course in Finland after Mo Ranton. Uh, and it’s super cool. So, I’m going to ask Mo about it, ask Casey about it as Sean was talking to me about. But the interesting part is someone pointed out that the Finnish Mafia logo is the exact logo that a a popular Finnish disc golf company uses and they use it at that course. So, I think we were ahead of the game here. We have the best shirt for the Fins. I know there’s a lot of them, but we have the best shirt and you can get it 20% off if you become a diehard. 20% off merch, 20% off events like our takeover articles without ads, all of the articles, all kinds of cool stuff and the Discord where you get all the cool access. >> Hey Sam, you remember when one of the I was at a party and I found somebody somebody was in there? I mean, wouldn’t that be something if Ryan had that picture right at But >> ready, Ryan, go. >> That’s asking a lot of party and in the crowd in the living room was some dude wearing that Finnish mafia shirt. That’ll come up. We’ll get that. We’ll we’ll close the show with that. >> I saw some random guy took a picture with rope handset practice, too. Big beard guy. I think you know him. >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. Let me get you back on the tracks here, fellas. I thought as that second period power play goal went in that the Stars were really in control for a while and they had a bunch of chances. No high dangers but you know they for a stretch of time they looked really good. Then they get called for a penalty and that led to a power play. Now they didn’t score but Clingberg Celibbrini had a couple. Wenberg in front had a chance at the side of the net. There was a real scramble around Jakeer who was really composed in those moments and they didn’t score. But that led to a Colin Graph goal off of a faceoff. Let’s talked about the first face off. Well, they happened again. This time Celabbrini makes, you know, mince meat out of Colin Blackwell. >> No, it’s called Here’s what it’s called. He clowned Blackwell. >> Yeah. >> He literally clowned him. like it was it was uh it was not cool. So CBrini goes straight ahead and then he just he again he does all the work here. What I didn’t get about this is now all of a sudden we revert to man-on-man. Leouchkin goes and grabs one guy and then our three forwards. Here’s our these three people you see here. Harley’s one of them here. Now all of a sudden you got Blackwell coming back but Harley goes here. We have three forwards standing in front of the net with the goal scorer eventual goal scorer grab. And then all of a sudden, that’s a perfect shot, Ryan. Oh no. Just takes off and they just want to follow the puck. And then you’ve got obviously, as we saw tonight, one of the most talented players in the league spot scrap all alone. Jake makes the first save though. But but again, everybody’s going looking the wrong way. You’re going the wrong way, guys. >> That’s a bad picture. >> Oh my god. Well, it’s bad because the first three guys that you see are all forwards. Both defensemen are standing out there looking, staring back at Graph as he’s tapping the rebound past Jake’s right leg right there. >> Going the wrong way. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, that’s the second goal of the night for Colin Graph. >> It makes it three to two or excuse me, that was his first. He’ll have another one we’ll get to in a minute. I want to take this moment to play a very brief clip from our pregame show tonight, just so you know, sometimes we actually know what we’re talking about. >> I know Alex very well. Alex is a mad gambler with the puck. So, it’s there’s there’s there’s entertainment factor on that end of >> he’s the reason why we should not have the trapezoid rule anymore. >> Yes, >> Sean. Bravo, sir, because you called it. I always say when Luds gets a move, it’s our Ludstradamus moment. >> Well, you you put on your prognostication hat for tonight. >> Yeah, I was uh that’s what’s horrible timing for it too, right? Like like less than a minute less than a minute left in the period. your your team is and just the decision making here was it wasn’t decision- making. It was just it it was horrible. >> I don’t know. I I I thought it was decision- making. See this one here, he looks up and he he just wants to make sure that Ritzy Ritz is wide open. And then and then then the next clip he actually took a second look. He just wanted to make sure that was him and he was wide open and he was actually had his stick on the ice so that he could give him a tape to tape pass and he >> yikes. >> What do you think the exact moment was where he realized he was in trouble? >> Was it when he the puck was off his stick? >> I mean best case scenario here’s looking >> best case scenario here. It’s on your defenseman’s stick. skating towards his own net with four checkers on it. I just I don’t know the upside here. Sean, >> we need aggressive goalies playing the puck in the corners below the goal line instead of this restricted area because for all the Marty Turos out there or Martan Broaddurs that would end for checks because they would get those dumpins and just fling them forward. There’s way too many bad decision goalies out there to for these kind of entertaining chaos moments. >> I love Ritz Kovian. loved that he got the goal, but I was rooting for Nakovvich to make that save because that is that is your street hockey dream come true. You turn you you chip it out and you just make the sprawling save. He didn’t get there. >> Well, go back to >> player on the ice was Maverick Bour because Maverick was thinking I was just there about earlier. You could have given it to me because one goal in like 15 games or whatever. >> He could really use one, couldn’t he? I’m I’m a I’m a believer that there are pros to goalies handling the puck and everything like that, but if you are and I don’t watch every Sharks game, but if you’re put yourself in Ryan Warovsk’s shoes right now, coach this of the Sharks, I off the top of my head can point to this game where okay, Alexovich put a puck right onto the opponent’s stick for what turned into the game-winning goal. You can take I can take you back to October 10th or 11th if you want to go look up his um horrific uh >> Oh yeah, >> his horrific experience against the Vegas >> the Vegas one. >> I mean it’s like this it’s it’s not I I don’t want to >> that was a game they should have won in regulation. >> Exactly. So like it’s you talk about kicking kicking a guy while he’s down right now from your San Jose perspective. This Sharks team is second in the wild card spot. Let’s say they do make a little run. Let’s say they they do get into this whole competition. They missed the playoffs by two points. >> Oh, like like there’s a there’s and you can go back and obviously there’s lots of mistakes that happen over the course of a season and this and that and the other, but it’s pretty hard to ignore those. So, >> all right, let’s quickly go to the second Colin Graph goal. This was the one that was finished off a beautiful transition play. I don’t know about you guys and ultimately it didn’t affect the outcome of the game. I thought Miro Hastenan maybe had a gripe with the referee that looked like a stick up in under his arm, a little bit of hook twist to him. He didn’t get the call. I don’t know what Miro has to do to get some respect from the refs, but this transition goal was really well done by the Sharks. >> Yeah, Mero would have just got up. Well, Graph let go to stick behind the net. There’s one more frame here, I think, if I’m remembering it right. There’s one more frame here and graph lets go of his stick. He’s not even holding his stick and Merryill’s still standing up. Then Mirill goes down. Then Merryill takes his time getting up and that’s when the puck goes down to the other end of the ice. But down as it’s going down to the end of the ice, it’s Colin Blackwell. Well, again, you’ve got Radic Foxa, I think, and Blackwell and one defenseman back there. So, here we go again. And but again, Blackwell has everything figured out right here. And then all of a sudden he stops skating and that’s when Radic decides to go to the puck carrier and Blackie stops his feet and that’s when Graph is standing all alone. And again, what do we got? Who Who’s defending back there? Number 15 and 12 on I believe they’re forwards. >> I don’t think I don’t think you want me and Essa standing where they are >> standing at the top of the circle looking back at Graph tapping the net. ECAC boys, man. >> Yeah. >> So, that made it four to three. There were a couple of good looks. This is where Auter really got actually, you know what? For a stretch there, all of a sudden, Robo woke up. He had one, two, three, four shots, four good looks. Not nothing standoff jump off the page, but he was looking for that putaway goal, but then M uh Jake stopped Ecklund on that one-handed backhand drive to the net. Wenberg had a rebound at the top of the crease Jake came up with. Then six on five. Boy, I tell you, Mlin Celibbrini, he is a threat that one-time wherever he is. He was on the right circle a lot, but then he had one over on the left side and then Jamie Ben scored an empty net goal from the right slot of his defensive zone. That was a nice finish because I thought Matt Duchain was going to score but he couldn’t flip one over John Clingberg. But even with the Stars with the lead, boy, Celibbrini, I don’t know. Did you any of you guys think that he was really close to tying this game? You just have that think like if you keep giving him shots, one of them is going to find its way in. Anytime the puck is on his stick, it’s got a chance of going. >> Yeah, he and he looks better than his whole team. Like he’s clearly the best player on that team, especially with Will Smith out. There were countless plays where he makes a hard pass and the Sharks just couldn’t handle it or he’s trying to get up in the play and no one can keep up with him. So he he is leagues ahead of a lot of players on that team and it shows. When we had the Sharks in Dallas on December 5th >> and I talked to to Clinger to John Clingberg, >> he looked over at Celibbrini and said, “This guy is a legit talent.” He said, “He’s really, really good.” Obviously, we knew that already, but it’s always nice to hear a guy who was pretty elite offensive defenseman for a long time in the NHL. In fact, he’s still third on the FR Stars Northstars franchise history in goals, assists, and points by a defenseman. And when he says, “This guy’s legit,” I think that carries some weight. >> Word. >> All right, guys. Stars get the win. We got a few We’ve done an hour, but we got to get those super chats in. So, let’s start with I Love Missy 1985 with an Ainger and a Johnston. I didn’t have a chance to watch this game because I was driving to Virginia Capitals territory. It’s about a two-day drive if you don’t want to do the Craig Lewan just drive all night long to visit my family for the holidays. But I’m glad the Stars got the win over my second favorite team. Happy birthday, Otter. Yeah, second favorite team, the Sharks. Interesting. >> Drive safe. Happy holidays. Yeah, drive safe. >> Matt Spears >> 9880 with a Ben and Johnston. We need some live post games at Hooters. >> Yeah, >> word. >> I knew I knew Lugs would be on board with that. He also thinks it might be time to wrap this up. Clarotis with a hasten and a 99 cup here. Just saw Ritzy’s goal. Jim Ross voice. Good God almighty. I am not going to try to imitate the WWE legendary broadcaster. That man had a family. Also, happy birthday Otter. Well, that was just a terrible play by Nelkovich and we all know that. Finally, Sam’s favorite finger blaster 911, a Oscar Beck and Craig Lewig, or it could be John Clayber. I’m telling you, the jokes just run themselves here, guys. vote. Best 2026 Olympic sweater design goes to >> Yep. >> USA Blue. We’re going to do a segment about this uh maybe Monday if we have time. >> That’s the correct answer though. >> We’ll show sometime in the next couple weeks when we have a a daily show. We’ll we’ll go through the Olympic jerseys. But yes, that USA blue does look very nice. >> Classic terrible. >> Let’s start with uh Sean Luds and Sam. We’ll go in that order real quick. just right across the screen here. Oh, we got another one. >> I wasn’t even ready for that one. >> We have two more. Oh, goodness. Chlorotus with a Casey to Smith and 99 Cupier. Sean, plug your books. Uh oh, yeah. Cool. Uh, go buy 100 things Star fans should know and do before they they they die. Uh, Craig Ledwig is there’s a nice acknowledgement to Craig Lwig in that book actually because Craig drank drank me under the table the first time I sat down to uh interview him about it. So, as did I approve you using my name in that book? >> Yes, I think you did. I I believe I actually I actually believe the final line that I remember was Yeah, just when you do an audio book, just give it to me and send it to me. That was that was >> I’m not reading that. >> We’re still we’re still waiting for someone to greenlight the audio version. Um, so yeah, >> Sam, I’m still laughing because we saw exactly in real time how long it took before you understood what plug your books meant. >> I legit I was I was looking behind him thinking like, “Oh, what? His books are dying. Like he’s got to charge them or something. >> Is something like spilling or leaking? Plug them.” >> All right, one more. Ardell with a Lewig and a Harley. When is Harley going to play well? >> That’s a good question. >> I’m gonna say the same thing, Sam. >> Oh, really? That he’s he’s surprised me. He’s not he’s not playing horrible or anything. He’s just he has such a high standard. He has not put it together yet. And >> does he look >> Sorry, Sam. Does he look like a 10 million dollar defenseman to you right now? >> No. And and he and he’s he’s basically I’ve seen some people previewing it. He’s playing himself off of Team Canada. >> That’s because he’s worrying about playing for team Canada. >> Could very well be. Y >> that’s what I think this is. I saw somebody uh maybe it was Jason Demer on Twitter today saying after Jacob Tricker scored his I believe 13th and 14th goals of the season for the Caps tonight why he hasn’t been getting more Canadian talk and he’s a left shot D. Is he in the contention to push Harley out of a spot? >> Well, also you have I was in Detroit on Tuesday. Jim was there not just for the stars watching for Hockey Canada too. They really like Matthew Schaefer. >> How can you not? >> He should. >> And all right, if you’re >> I’m gonna ask you guys >> I’m gonna ask you guys down the row here. >> Just a quick look ahead because we have a show tomorrow night. Pregame at 8:30, game at 10 at 9ine. I don’t think Sean is on tomorrow night. So Sean, we’ll start with you for that. Anaheim Ducks backto back probably see Casey to Smith. What are your thoughts about going into the Anaheim game tomorrow after this win tonight? um go and uh it the Ducks are obviously pl have taken a nice step this season for very for a couple reasons and uh you you’re supposed to good teams find ways to impress us in the second game of backtoback and be comfortable being being comfortable being uncomfortable like I said and this Stars team record-wise is one of the best teams in the league on the road um one of the best teams in general eneral, but one of the best teams in the league on the road. And I think you go in there and you don’t go in phased. And I don’t if they lose, it could happen. But I I I’m just interested. This team keeps finding ways to get it done. And it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. So >> when was their last game? Tuesday. >> They played a back-toback Monday, Tuesday at the Rangers. And then >> two days off. >> Two days off. >> Yep. After a fivegame Eastern Conference road trip. That’ll be rusty. >> Well, do you think Luds the Stars haven’t lost the second night of a back-to-back yet this year? And because they had two non-game days, is this a little bit better for Dallas at least because it isn’t as though this is the third game in four nights yet? >> I don’t know. I just I I think that you you had Celibbrini to worry about tonight. Tomorrow you probably got three or four of them to worry about. Sam, you you had a Twitter suggestion earlier today about possible lineup changes for tomorrow. You want to share? >> Yeah, I just think I know Bastion was sick a little bit here, but I I think that Golton was very clear that he didn’t want anyone to to sit for very long. This was six games in a row now for Bastion. He’s played well when he’s in. I think he should come in. I also think uh we know Adam Ernie was potentially going to be playing on this trip and that the trip is is this. So, um he could come in and give some fresh legs that they have options. I think they should use those options. They’re not going to take out a defenseman probably for Caviano, but I’d like to see Bastion in there. I think Dallas needs to make this game sloppy and not sloppy, but uh sluggish and not a lot of shots. If they don’t, it’s not going to go their way. I don’t think tomorrow they come out and put up five goals. >> Yeah, they what is it? Seven to five. They lost to Anaheim the last time. So, Sam, my question to you then, my followup is >> who do you take out to let Bastion and or Ernie come into the lineup? I I don’t think people are going to like this, but I think Maverick Bourke could use a couple games off. >> Well, that’s word. That’s spoken like a guy that says, “We’ve done enough.” Sean, do you agree? You think Bourc is the first guy out? >> Word. I love it. Okay, well, that’s going to do it. >> Coming. >> Big thanks to everybody for all the super chats and all the comments in general. The the uh chat was fired up tonight. some great debate and maybe some dark clouds and Sam unplugged his mic already. That means he’s done. That’s great. He might as well just unbuckle his belt and take his pants off, too. There goes Luds. There goes Sam. And we’d like to thank Sean for joining us. And for our producer Ryan VAS, I’m Owen Newkerk. 53 Stars Beat the Sharks. We’ll see you tomorrow night at 8:30. Actually, it’s later tonight to play the Ducks here on DLLS. He had it.

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Wyatt Johnston scored two goals and Jake Oettinger stopped 34-of-37 shots to record his NHL-leading 15 win of the season, as the Dallas Stars out-dueled the San Jose Sharks 5-3 on Thursday night at SAP Center at San Jose. Roope Hintz opened the scoring with his 10th goal of the year and the Stars never trailed in the contest. Hintz, Johnston, Mikko Rantanen and Esa Lindell all had multi-point games for the Stars, while Collin Graff scored two goals and Macklin Celebrini had a pair of assists to lead the San Jose offense. Join the DLLS Stars Post Game Show as we guide you through all the action from tonight’s game, discuss the key storylines, provide in-depth breakdowns and take your Super Chats.

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