The Western Conference Final against the Avalanche is where Stars goaltender Ed Belfour shined. In the second round, the Stars cruised to a 4-2 series win against the St. In the 1997 playoffs, the seventh-seeded Oilers had upset the higher-seeded Stars, but in 1999, Dallas earned a first-round sweep.
On the other hand, the Stars finished the regular season as the top-seeded team in the West and faced the Edmonton Oilers in the first round. Hasek then returned and didn’t lose a game the rest of the series to help Buffalo reach their first Stanley Cup Final since the 1974-75 season. When Hasek was injured and replaced by backup Dwayne Rolston, the Sabres lost to Boston in Game 5, and when he missed two games in the Eastern Conference Final, Rolston won the first game against Toronto but lost Game 2.
In the first three rounds, the Bruins were the only team to win more than one game against the Sabres. The seventh-seeded Sabres got hot at the right time, beating the Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs. In the regular season, he led the NHL in save percentage for the sixth straight time, en route to winning the Vezina Trophy. 939 save percentage (SV%) in 19 games in the 1999 playoffs. Hasek posted a 1.77 goals-against average (GAA), and a. As they say, when a goalie gets hot in the playoffs, he can become an unstoppable force who can carry a team deep into the playoffs, much like Carey Price is doing for the Montreal Canadiens in 2021. To better understand the context and impact of Hull’s goal, here’s a look at the two teams, how they got to the Final, and what happened in Game 6. While the Stars made it to the Cup Final again the following season (losing to the New Jersey Devils), the Sabres, who also had one of the best players in the league, watched their short-lived opportunity for glory evaporate.
Mike Modano, Dallas Stars, 2004 (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images)
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