Wow, get outplayed and win 5-2. I'll take it.

I was really impressed by the Stars tonight, they look like a really solid team. Whatever Ruff is selling to them, they're definitley buying in. It felt like everytime down the ice they were getting a good chance. The team D tonight was sloppy but always seemed to get a stick on the puck just in time. Crawford was great as well.

We won this game because of our first line. I've heard Hawks fans try to tell me that Sharp is a tradeable piece. If any of you have any friends who try to tell you this please round house kick them in the face. He just does everything right and this team wouldn't be near the same level without him. Just look at last year while he was injured, the team was nowhere near as good.

PK was 6 for 6 tonight. Looked really good. More aggressive and contesting the puck carrier at the point. This PK will probably be fine in the long run. Not as good as last year but probably in the upper half of the pack.

The Stars' new sweaters blow. They look just like those awful St. Patrick's Day bootleg sweaters that stupid bros wear:



Same shade of green, same white-black-white sleeve stripes. The only difference is the Hawks bootleg has a couple extra black and white stripes.

The Stars look to me like they've looked for about the past five or six years now: a thoroughly mediocre team that through sheer effort and Kari Lehtonen will win games they shouldn't win, but more often than not just win or lose games 3-2 and go to shootouts a lot. Things will get better now that there's new management and there are a lot of talented rookies coming up, but for now this looks like it'll be the last season of their illustrious Let's Finish Ninth Every Year era.

Yes, the arena is fairly dark, which is not assisted by all the empty seats, which are a medium-dark grey. The seats that were filled seemed to be filled with Hawks fans.

Nice to get a win when getting that outworked. Four assists for Sharp? Damn, dude. Onward to the perpetual bumblefuck that is the Oilers!

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