By Jessica Schieber, Co Editor-in-Chief
I love preseason, I know that seems like an odd statement but one of my favorite times of a season starting is preseason.
It’s like when you go home and you get to see all your family, animals and friends that you haven’t seen in a while.
My favorite part of preseason is training camp media day. The social teams of all 32 teams come up with the craziest ideas to get people excited for the season.
In New Jersey, the social team of the Devils had multiple players blind rank beagle orders.
In Dallas, the Stars’ social team posted a photo of Roope Hintz roping a Dallas Stars cowboy boot.
The Philadelphia Flyers posted a small clip of Jamie Drysdale answering the question of who the worst at Fantasy Football is.
With Preseason starting it also means that preseason games have also started.
The Dallas Stars beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 Saturday.
The game started off with Radek Faksa won the face-off against Dalibor Dvorsky. Nils Lundkvist’s shot was blocked by Dvorsky.
Faksa then had a giveaway, which led to Logan Mailloux getting a shot. That shot was missed. Nathan Walker on the Blues landed a hit on Alexander Petrovic.
Soon after that there was on offside call leading the teams to another face-off that was won by Justin Hryckowian.
Shortly after Simon Robertsson had a giveaway which Lundkvist tried to take advantage of but that had no fruit as his shot was blocked by Nikita Susuev.
Sam Steel for the Stars missed his shot. Alexy Toropchenko took a shot on goal that the goalie for the Stars stopped.
This led way to another face-off that was won by Stars player, Hryckowian.
Right after the face-off Walker got into a fight against Hryckowian that resulted in both players receiving a 5 minute major.
Afterwards, Stars player Faksa won a face-off against Matthew Peca. Adam Jecho for the Blues missed a shot on Remi Poirier the Dallas Stars goalie.
Dylan Holloway followed with a shot that was saved by Poirier.
After that event offsides was called resulting in another face-off. Faksa won it against Peca.
Adam Erne for the Stars took a shot on the Blues goalie, Jordan Binnington.
Nathan Bastian took a shot on Binnington but missed. With 39 seconds left in the first period Trey Taylor took a 2-minute mifor penalty for hooking against Alexey Toropchenko.
The second period started with Justin Carbonneau a player on the Blues scoring the first goal of the game.
His goal was assisted by Logan Mailloux and Holloway. With 13 minutes and 46 seconds left to play Antoine Dorion for the Blues received a 2-minute minor for hooking against Colin Blackwell.
Nothing came from the Dallas Stars powerplay however Mavik Bourque scored a goal with 5 minutes and 29 seconds left of the second period.
His goal was assisted by Erne and Petrovic.
Nothing else came from the second period.
In the third period with a tied score both teams tried to get the win.
Dvorsky started things off good for the Blues by winning the face-off. Petrovic got a takeaway and Taylor attempted to get a shot only for it to be blocked by Matthew Kessel.
With 11 minutes and 30 seconds left in the third period there was an icing call and shortly after that another was called.
Hryckowian was given 2-minute minor for high-sticking against Toropchenko.
Nothing came out of this and the period ended with a tie bringing the teams to overtime.
In overtime there was no change to the score, so the teams had to end in a shootout. Dvorsky shot first but his shot was saved so the attempted went to Sam Steel and the Stars.
Steel got the goal and then Justin Carbonneau for the Blues had an attempt that was saved.
Mavik Bourque took a shot, but it was missed.
The Blues had one final attempt and Holloway’s shot was saved.
This resulted in the Stars winning the first preseason game. This was the only game played on Saturday night and on Sunday mulitple teams started thier preseason games against one another. Some teams even played one another twice in the same day. The NHL is coming back in full swing.