In a game with enormous implications, the Stars used a comeback effort to defeat the Minnesota Wild 6-3 at Xcel Energy Center on Sunday. With 67 points, the Stars have tied the Wild for third place in the division, though Minnesota still holds the spot with one less game played.
You know the phrase objects in the mirror are closer than they appear? With the win, the Stars are now just four points behind St. Louis for second place in the Central.
Though the Stars will take wins any way they can get them, they certainly didn't make things easy on themselves in the third period.
Holding a 4-1 lead with nearly nine minutes remaining in the third, the Stars failed to score into an empty net for the first seven of those minutes. Instead, they gave up two goals to Kirill Kaprizov to make it 4-3.
It wasn't until there were 65 seconds left on the clock when Jamie Benn fired a shot from the far end into the empty net to restore a multi-goal lead.