Radek Faksa scores in return, Stars oust defending Stanley Cup champ Golden Knights 2-1 in Game 7
Associated PressDALLAS — Radek Faksa made a promise to his 2 1/2-year-old son when they were playing together before the Dallas Stars took the ice for Game 7. His go-ahead goal came on a backhander 44 seconds into the third period, after his son had been taken home, and Dallas beat the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Sunday night to wrap up the first-round series. Brett Howden scored for Vegas, which couldn’t pull off another series winner in Dallas, where last year the Knights wrapped up the Western Conference Final with a win in Game 6. And we showed ’em.” Dallas has won Game 7s in each of its first two postseasons for coach Pete DeBoer, who is now 8-0 in his career in such games with four different teams. We miss an open net at the end of the second, and they score on the first shift of the third.. It’s a little bit of hockey sometimes when two close teams play.” The series ended with both teams scoring 16 goals.