Dallas Stars Daily Links: "Lazy Mistakes" Doom Stars In Loss To Wings

While the Dallas Stars showed up emotionally engaged to their Tuesday night game against the Detroit Red Wings, there were other critical parts of the game that didn't seem to make it to the American Airlines Center for the 5-4 loss.

Gap control for most of the defense was a big one, as the Stars struggled to hand of the onrushing Wings forwards from the backchecking forwards to the backing-in defense. And general defensive zone coverage could have been sharper too, especially when it came to turnovers.

Those were the types of things things coach Glen Gulutzan pointed to after the loss.

And while Kari Lehtonen gave up a couple of goals he probably wishes he had back, Gulutzan was not about to place the blame on him.

"Yeah, his performance I thought was fine. Even that one that went from the side of the net went off our defenseman's skate. What do you do? He made some huge saves in the first. He's still trying to reach for his stick on one. Second goal, good shot. We just made too many mistakes. Our D were backing off the line too much and we had some lazy mistakes. If you're going to be lazy, it's going to cost you."

After the jump, more on the Stars loss to the Red Wings, a bunch more on the debut of the Benn Brother Act and Stephane Robidas on learning how to age gracefully.