Where do you put the emphasis in this one?
On Saturday night, the Minnesota Wild posted a 7-0 win over the Dallas Stars in St Paul.
Well, we’ll start with the shutout. Alex Stalock made 27 saves to pitch the shutout.
“Tonight, we wanted it again and we played 60 minutes,” Stalock said. “It was good.”
The other half of the story was seven diffe3rent skaters struck for goals in the win.
“We looked like a team that had never played together before,” Stars coach Rick Bowness said. “We all did something wrong. … Did we see that coming? No, so it’s pretty hard to describe what we just saw.”
The Wild for perfect on three power play chances.
Mats Zuccarello, Ryan Donato and Ryan Hartman were among the goal scorers for Minnesota.
“We were crisp today,” Zucker said. “Our passes were on, and guys were trying to do the right things.”
Jared Spurgeon, Zach Parise, Jason Zucker, and Carson Soucy also scored in the win.
“We’ve played games 45 minutes, 55 minutes, but you had that lull. I never felt there was a lull (tonight) where we were doing the wrong things and we got carried away, cheating the game type thing,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. “I thought we played the right way for 60 minutes.”
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Khudobin got the start for the Stars but was given the hook midway through the barrage; he 13 saves on the night.
“Seems like [the All-Star break] couldn’t fall at a better time,” Jamie Benn said. “I don’t know what it is, but it happened before Christmas, sloppy games, and here we are again. We’ve got a little while to regroup, rest up, and we’ll get back at it in a week.”
Ben Bishop made 12 in what was a carnival shooting gallery.
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