Stars 'got what we deserved' in Game 2 loss to Golden Knights

The Dallas Stars couldn't win a face-off in the second period. They couldn't stay out of the penalty box. They couldn't help themselves when they had the chance.

Add it all up and, well, we'll let Joe Pavelski finish the thought.
"We got what we deserved," the Stars center said.
Dallas lost 3-0 to the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 2 of the Western Conference Final at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Tuesday. The best-of-7 series is tied going into Game 3 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, the hub city for the conference finals and Stanley Cup Final, on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS).
The Stars' biggest problems were limited to a stretch of less than 15 minutes in the second period.
It started at the face-off dot, where they were crushed, losing 11 of the first 12 in the period. That left Dallas chasing before it was trailing.
"They controlled the puck," Stars coach Rick Bowness said. "When you're doing that, you control the tempo."
A poorly executed line change resulted in a 4-on-3 rush that led to Vegas' first goal from Paul Stastny at 4:53. Alexander Radulov was the trailing Dallas player into the zone after he came off the bench, but he got to Stastny a moment after he scored from a wide-open slot area.
"We made a terrible change," Bowness said.

The Golden Knights kept winning face-offs with a 1-0 lead, and the Stars kept chasing, eventually leading to some penalties.
Corey Perry tripped Jonathan Marchessault at 7:26. To make matters worse, Miro Heiskanen, on that penalty kill, gave the puck away to Stastny. Vegas swung the puck around, and William Karlsson scored from the left point to make it 2-0 at 8:24.
The Stars nearly got burned on another penalty 40 seconds later, this one against Radulov for slashing Mark Stone. Vegas scored at 9:49, but Dallas won a challenge for interference on goalie Anton Khudobin, negating the would-be 3-0 lead for the Golden Knights.
"We get a little energy, we killed a few penalties, there was no reason we couldn't [come back]," Pavelski said. "But we never got our game going like we could in the flow of it."
They never scored the goal that would have sparked it.
Mattias Janmark could have had it, but he was stoned on a breakaway by goalie Robin Lehner at 13:59.
Vegas made it 3-0 33 seconds later on a goal by Tomas Nosek off a 3-on-1 created because Tyler Seguin went too low in the Golden Knights zone when the Stars needed him to stay high to cover for defenseman Jamie Oleksiak, who was pinching low.
Instead, Seguin abandoned the point, and Vegas got the puck out with only John Klingberg back and some nifty tic-tac-toe passing set up the goal by Nosek.
"I didn't really look over my right shoulder and kind of creeped into the slot," Seguin said. "I thought our other forward was back, and when I turned back, I realized that we were caught. I have to look at the clip. I think that's on me. I have to be more aware. We can't give up a 3-on-1."

Bowness tried to spark the Stars to a three-goal third-period comeback by giving Khudobin a breather and bringing in 21-year-old Jake Oettinger for his NHL debut.
Dallas was better in the third, making fewer mistakes, and Oettinger made five saves, but the Stars weren't dangerous or threatening enough to deny Lehner's fourth shutout of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He made 24 saves, 12 of them in the third.
"Lehner played a great game when he had to," Bowness said. "We didn't put nearly enough chances against him. We didn't put nearly enough shots against him."
And that brings the Stars back to another familiar problem, one that troubled them throughout the regular season: scoring goals.
The Stars lit up the scoreboard in the first two rounds, with 49 goals in 13 games (3.77 per game) against the Calgary Flames and Colorado Avalanche. They have one goal on 49 shots in two games against the Golden Knights, none on 48 shots in the last 117:24.
They're looking more like the regular-season Stars, who scored 2.58 goals per game, 26th in the NHL.
"I still personally think this is more our style of game," Seguin said. "Game 1, we had a lot of [offensive-zone] time. We controlled most of the play. Tonight, we didn't, and they responded. We're going to have to look at film and do a better job at their blue line, especially. We were trying to make kind of cute plays tonight and weren't getting it in deep like we were the first game."
The Stars can succeed in low-scoring games if they're limiting mistakes, forechecking and winning more face-offs. If they're not, it's going to look like it did in Game 2 more often than not.
"We took charge in the first game, first period, right away, and they ended up on their heels," Dallas forward Mattias Janmark said. "Today, it was a little bit reversed. … They were in charge all game."