This game is proving more of the "Stars/DeBoer are in the Avs players' heads" sort of theory I am currently considering. People are post all the eat shit Stars posts all they want, but Dallas shows up in the playoffs and will be as hard of a first round opponent there could possibly be even without Heiskanen. Today is a great example of not taking them lightly because Avs totally did that in the last ten minutes.I hear what you are saying. They played a very good game but this is the bare minimum result and really a missed opportunity to threaten for 2nd place. An OT loss would have been a gut punch.
Still, it's the kind of game they can build on for the playoffs, they dominated a good team.