Asked how the team handles the frustration, Pavelski said: "You just play."
"You have to make your own luck at times, and there have been some bounces that have gone against us, but we get our share along the way as well," he added. "It's the overtime losses. Obviously, those are a little frustrating right now, and the way they have piled up, but we are right there.
"They are tight games, but we have to start finding that extra point here."
This whole season has been one unlikely occurrence after another, so it's actually very difficult to pin down any one reason the team has been so poor in the extra session. Dallas is 1-6 in overtime games and 1-6 in shootouts. The Stars have hit posts, been stoned by amazing saves, and simply failed to convert on golden chances. It's been something different every night. On Tuesday, they had every opportunity to win it in regulation, couldn't get that key goal, and then took an ill-advised penalty in overtime that led to Florida's power play scoring the game-winning goal.
Before that happened, light-scoring Panthers defenseman Radko Gudas had a shot deflect off the stick of Stars forward Rhett Gardner, flutter up in the air, and somehow float over the head of Stars goalie Anton Khudobin in the second period.
It was the first goal for Gudas since January 2020, and just one more sign that luck is not going the Stars' way this season.