The Dallas Stars were staring down the barrel of elimination, down 2-0 with their season on the line in the third period of Game 7.
Then everyone — Mikko Rantanen, the Stars and a sold-out American Airlines Center alike — woke up.
The Stars are moving on after a wild third-period comeback eliminated the Avalanche and saved the Stars season.
A whiplashed Stars fanbase went from morose to euphoric in a span of about 10 minutes.
Check out some of the best reactions from the win below.
AVS had to stand there while they cleaned up hats off the ice with 2.7 seconds left LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
— D 🏆 (@TxForever) May 4, 2025
Wow and WOW!
That was an all-time kind of game and series.
Enjoy that one, Dallas. Those don’t come along often.
— Josh Bogorad (@JoshBogorad) May 4, 2025
The Stars scored more goals in the third period than the Rangers have scored runs in their last four games.
— Shawn McFarland (@McFarland_Shawn) May 4, 2025
The gold standard in Dallas for hockey is the following list:
Colorado game 7
Colorado game 7
And Colorado game 7.I hope you have attended as many as possible of that trio of excellence.
— Bob Sturm (@SportsSturm) May 4, 2025
That’s one of the best games I’ve ever watched. Any sport. Period.
See you on Free 4 All in about ten minutes! #texashockey
— Sam Gannon (@SamGannon87) May 4, 2025
With everything that went down with the Mavs this year and what’s currently going on with the Rangers man oh man did the Stars just deliver what this city desperately needed
— Mike Peasley (@PeasRadio) May 4, 2025
🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎 🫎
— Brendan Smith (@brendantime) May 4, 2025
Kendrick Lamar: I’ve created the best diss track ever!
Mikko Rantanen: Hold my beer.— Bruce LeVine (@BruceLeVinePuck) May 4, 2025
The @DallasStars are the first team in Stanley Cup Playoffs history to be trailing by multiple goals in the 3rd period of a Game 7 but win in regulation.
— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) May 4, 2025
DeBoer: “I don’t believe we win that game if we’re not playing at American Airlines in front of the Dallas fans.”
— Lia Assimakopoulos (@Lassimak) May 4, 2025
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