Dallas Stars live game notes: Game 6 at Minnesota Wild

Scratches: Erne, Myers, Hyry (injured), Capobianco, Lundkvist (injured), Bastian (injured), Hintz (injured), Seguin (SELTIR)

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Do or die. Talk is talk. Time to prove it because the runway is up.

Live game notebook

Period 1

• The first goal is huge tonight. The Stars, while confident and veteran, are also human. They understand the struggles they have had. If they go down 1-0 and can’t muster up shots, they could lose even more confidence and really start to squeeze their sticks.

• Oof, ^^ is exactly what happened. Unlike Games 3 and 4 when Minnesota took bad penalties and allowed Dallas to score early power-play goals to silence the crowd, the Wild have dominated the early going here. After an easy breakout, Dallas gets too puck focused and skates past the slot to allow a cross-ice pass to Quinn Hughes at the point. Hughes toe drags around Radek Faksa and snipes one over Jake Oettinger’s glove. Crowd goes crazy.

• Dallas has spent almost no time in the Minnesota end. The Wild have packed the interior, forced Dallas into turnovers, and only given up two shots through 12 minutes.

• Well, the game has settled in. That’s good news for the Stars because it was all Minnesota.

• Mikko Rantanen took a high stick, tried to sell it with full elevation, and left the game. Not sure if it was from a concussion spotter — to go into protocol — or if there is an injury there.

• The Stars did not rack up shots or create much, but they did settle the Wild’s push and even out the game. At least a little. That’s a start. But they have to score some goals over the final 40.

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Wild 1, Stars 0

Period 2

Period 3