In Dallas, the visiting Minnesota Wild posted a 3-0 lead into the second period and promptly sat back to admire what they had wrought.
In the process, they also watched the Stars reply with six unanswered goals in a 6-3 Dallas win.
Alexander Radulov lead the way with a hat trick.
“We don’t want to give up, and that’s the bottom line,” Radulov said. “We heard our fans weren’t happy and we weren’t happy with the two periods, even though I think the first wasn’t as bad as the second. At the end of the second, we did a lot of good things.
“It’s good to have a comeback, but it’s hard to fall down 3-0, especially at home.”
Ben Bishop got the start for Dallas but was given the hook in the first intermission; he yielded two goals and made eight saves through 20 minutes.
“We just thought [Bishop] wasn’t on top of his game, that’s all,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said.
Anton Khudobin made 11 saves in through the rest of the game.
Eric Staal, Jason Zucker and Ryan Suter scored for the Wild.
“Momentum is real,” Staal said. “Momentum in games is real. We had all of it, and then it shifted. I don’t know what the answer is as to why, but we’ve got to figure that out. It obviously helped them the other way.”
Joe Pavelski, Tyler Seguin and Roope Hintz added single markers in the win.
Radulov got the rally started in the second period.
“It evidently made a big impact on them,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. “Once we got our third goal, we stopped playing and they started to get mad and come on. We talked in between periods and knew they were going to come out in the first seven or eight minutes. But we make mistakes and obviously, we don’t get rewarded for mistakes. But with the mistakes that we made early, they capitalized on all of them.”
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Alex Stalock made 31 saves in the loss.
“I think we just sat back,” Zucker said. “I don’t think we pressured them. We would just chip the puck and change.”
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