“It certainly didn’t look like a playoff game from our point of view,” Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said when asked about the team’s level of intensity. “I thought that they, to a man, were better than us, which hasn’t happened to us a lot during the year. You can’t get your game going if you’re not going to win battles. You can take any metric, and if you lose skating battles and puck battles you are always on the receiving end of everything negative.”