Tyler Gets In (your) Face? You know what, just roll with it.
You don’t have to tell the Dallas Stars that they have a mountain to climb in the Nevada desert. But that will start with one win.
Stars staff writer Mike Heika talked with Tyler Seguin as the team prepares for a showdown in Sin City. The veteran forward shared his perspective on the battle ahead:
You are down 2-0 to the defending Stanley Cup champions, does that add anything to the story or is this just another game?
Seguin: The story is you’ve got to get one, you’ve got to start with one. The focus is we’ve been a good road team all season, we’ve taken pride in the bounce back games and not going on losing streaks, overcoming the adversity you face as a group. And we’ve got to find a way to win that first game in Vegas.
Segs is focused not so much on playing spoiler – although that will be a given – as on getting past the Stars’ Moby Dick – or Pittsburgh Penguins, if you will:
This is going to be their first home playoff game since they won the Cup, so there is going to be heightened emotion. Does that lend itself to playing spoiler, so to speak?
Seguin: I don’t know. I think that’s a lot of thinking, that’s what you guys do. My last comment was dominating, I don’t know that we have dominated, I think we have played good enough to win games. We responded last game. I thought our first was great and with a team like that, they find a way to have it 1-1 going into the second. You give them credit where credit is due, they’re a great hockey club. I was thinking this morning, teams like Washington, they had to get through Pittsburgh to go all of the way. This is kind of our team that we’ve got to find a way to overcome. Even with everything going on with them, we’ve got to find a way to overcome them. That’s just going to spring forward all of the emotion and confidence in the group. They’re playing confident, they’re playing composed, they don’t have a worry to them, that’s what elite teams do, and that’s what we’re trying to get to.
You can read the whole thing at the Stars’ homepage. [Dallas Stars]
Stars Stuff
Just go ahead and read this and get it out of your system.
Keep your antennae up – the Stars are likely to have more on Faksa’s and Marchment’s status today, according to The Dallas Morning News‘ reporter on the scene.
The Story So Far – Round 1
- Can anything stop the Florida Panthers Revenge Tour? A 5-3 win on Thursday night leaves them one game away from sweeping the Tampa Bay Lightning. [Litter Box Cats]
- Meanwhile, the Carolina Hurricanes are on the cusp of closing out their own series after a 3-2 victory rally over the New York Islanders. [The News & Observer (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill)]
Around The Leagues
The Seattle Kraken have called it quits with regional sports networks. Sean Shapiro looks at the business end of creating “one of the NHL’s most enviable local broadcasting setups.”
Arizona hasn’t given up on hockey. Former Star Jason Demers is a member of a new foundation designed to help keep the sport alive in the desert.
Broadcaster Al Shaver did the radio play-by-play for all 26 seasons of the Stars’ history in Minnesota. He passed away on Monday at age 96. [The Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)]
Bob Cole, the voice of Hockey Night In Canada for five decades, who called everything from the 1972 Summit Series to the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, has died. He was 90. [Associated Press]
Greetings From Scenic Cedar Park – And Beautiful Boise
They did it. They really did it.
And so did he.
Him, too.
Meanwhile, the Idaho Steelheads are in North Texas for Game 3 against the Allen Americans. Have you seen the Game 2 highlights yet?
Finally
Otter can do this, so maybe we can act like this series isn’t over yet. Enjoy.