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on a hit that Minnesota fans saw as perfectly fine and Dallas fans saw as outrageous was actually more mindful of a local piece of history.
Stars coach Peter DeBoer, who took no issues with Wild defenseman Matt Dumba’s hit on Pavelski after the puck had left the area,. After hitting his head on the ice — if Pavelski sustained a concussion — who knows how long Stars fans might have to wait for his return. They tried until deep into the night and, with an 8:50 puck drop scheduled for ESPN, they battled beyond midnight. The flow of the game was all Minnesota for two periods but then the third, fourth and fifth belonged mostly to Dallas, even if the Stars never scored after taking an early 2-1 lead with power-play goals in the second period. Dallas outshot Minnesota 38-19 over those last three periods, all scoreless until Ryan Hartman flipped the puck past Jake Oettinger after a bad bounce.
Now they have to battle on with Tyler Seguin plugging the center hole in the top line and hoping to turn back the clock as the Stars’ only player to hoist the Stanley Cup. It’s been a minute since that happened. Seguin won with Boston the same June that the Mavericks knocked off the Miami Heat.
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