Who stole the show at the american airlines center?”
There is crying in hockey, as it turns out. And Stars fans gave it their lasting approval Thursday night at American Airlines Center. Column by TIM COWLISHAW / The Dallas Morning News | wtcowlishaw@dallasnews.com Tim Cowlishaw Archive | Blog | E-mail With 5:28 left in the third period of what was mostly meaningless hockey between two teams bound for nowhere, Mike Modano looked up at the scoreboard and fought back the tears as he had done earlier in the night. This time he lost the battle. As the crowd continued to cheer in what was probably Modano’s final game in Dallas, Modano bowed his head and put his gloves to his face. Players for both teams stood in the faceoff circle and tapped their sticks on the ice. The delay continued, and when Modano raised his head, tears were streaming down his cheeks as he lifted his glove to wave to the crowd. They didn’t even know the good stuff was yet to come. Modano, who had assisted on
They are bickering roommates on the road and they stared each other down rooting for their respective countries in the Olympics, but on the ice together, Adam Burish and Patrick Sharp stole the show Wednesday night in a 3-2 overtime win over Los Angeles. Burish spent about five seconds on the ice, in his very first shift of the season, before assisting his good friend on the game’s first goal. A few seconds later, he fought Rich Clune and the Hollywood script started to write itself. Who gets a point and a fight on their first shift of the season, in game 66? Adam Burish, that’s who. “When he got the assist it was just like one of those things where you shake your head and say, ‘That shouldn’t be happening,’ Sharp said after scoring his second of the night to win the game. “But then he drops the gloves right in front of us like 20 seconds later and you’re like, ‘There’s the real ‘Bur’ [Burish] we know.’” Sharp was sure not to whiff on the set-up by Burish from behind the Kings goal —
