Sturm: Not the time to panic

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The first round of this Best-of-Seven War is going to take at least six games to decide, as the Stars allowed the Ducks a stay of execution Friday night in Anaheim. Whether it turns out to be the beginning of a full-fledged pardon will largely rest on how the Stars respond to adversity back in Big D.

Game 5 boiled down to creating chances and converting said chances. You could make the case that for every Selanne, Getzlaf, or other Duck chance in front of Marty Turco, there was a Richards, Ribeiro, or other Star chance in front of Jean Sebastian Giguere. The Ducks cashed in, the Stars did not often enough.

And such is the margin between victory and defeat in this series. The winner gets the spoils, and the loser contemplates how they lost a game in which they played pretty well. I would imagine the Ducks had similar feelings after Game 2 and Game 4.

Dallas Stars - Features: Sturm: Not the time to panic - 04/19/2008