Lousy showing by a lot of The Blues' players, except Binnington, Perunovich, and Kyrou. Dallas had a good game plan, and executed it well. They caught The Blues on an off night. The Blues just seemed to have little energy, and they allowed The Stars to smother them on defence, and dictate the play. The Blues didn't put up much resistance to The Stars pushing them around, and The Stars, who were skating a lot faster, and winning all the puck races, jumped on almost every opportunity to get odd-man rushes and breakaways. They stifled The Blues on their power plays by keeping 3 of their 4 penalty killers hanging all over The Blues 2 forwards in front of the net (what brought them their #2 29% scoring rate, and allowed only the one first goal. It's a long 82-game season. No team can play all-out every game. Luckily, Dallas is not good enough for this loss to help get them above The Blues in The Central at the end of the season.