The Ice Sheet: Stars Have Sharks in Hammerlock

Filed under: General NHL, Rangers, Flyers, Penguins, Canadiens, Wings, Avalanche, Stars, Sharks, Stanley CupThe team that continues to be the biggest surprise of the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs has to be the Dallas Stars. For the second series in a row, Dallas has faced a higher seed yet still come away with a pair of victories on enemy ice.The first victim was the defending Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks. Now the team Dallas has tied in knots is the San Jose Sharks, one of the prohibitive favorites to win the Cup going into the 2007-08 regular season. After stealing Game One thanks to an overtime goal from team captain Brendan Morrow, the Stars faced a 2-1 deficit entering the third period -- a deficit that would have been larger if it wasn't for the play of goalie Marty Turco and an incredible bad angle goal from behind the net in the first period from Mike Ribero.The comeback was sparked early in the third when Brad Richards (who finished the night with four points, alli in the third period) jumped on a Joe Pavelski turnover in the San Jose zone and wired a wrist shot past Nabakov to tie it, 2-2. A few minutes later Sergei Zubov, who had been out with an injury since January 17, made a blind backhanded pass to Mike Modano. He ripped the puck past Nabakov to give Dallas a lead it would never relinquishContinue reading The Ice Sheet: Stars Have Sharks in HammerlockPermalink | Email this | Comments more...