Let's go to the Diamond Factory ticket hotline and welcome in the voice of the Dallas Stars.

It is Josh Bogorad joining us.

Josh, well, it's desperation time at this point.

Backs against the wall, say whatever cliche we all want to to motivate these guys.

But, man, last night, we were talking about this earlier and curious to get your your thoughts on

this it just felt like from the get go last night that minnesota was the better team yeah i think

it's hard to uh it's hard to disagree with that i mean they the stars made some pushes they had some

chances they made it a one goal game late they tied it after they gave up the early goal.

But that was a hard team to play against in terms of winning battles on the wall and getting to the interior, the areas that you wanted to, the areas that were a focal point.

I don't think it was, you know minnesota came in there

and blew their doors off uh but but yeah i think they were the better team last night probably

deserved the win and now dallas has to do the exact same thing on minnesota ice tomorrow

night and drag the series back here for a seventh game.

Otherwise, that's it.

Josh, it feels like the defense of Minnesota in front of their goalie has been stellar to me

and just preventing pucks getting to him.

And he's been really good, beyond good, in this series as far as stopping shots.

But they are doing everything they possibly can to make the job less for him by not seeing

as many pucks because they are just blocking so many.

And I don't know if it's, I don't feel it's the lack of what Dallas is doing on the other

side as far as their defense goes.

But, man, I feel like they're in front of the goalie, man, on defense. They're playing a great series. Yeah, they're one of the best defensive teams in the league. They're one of the best teams in the league overall. The stars are the same, though. They can say the exact same thing. But I think you're right, Donnie. I think that, you know, this is this, this is Minnesota flexing in some really good areas

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