FINAL BUZZER FALLOUT

When today's game ended and the Stars had lost their 4th in a row something happened right at the final buzzer that was both eyebrow raising and potentially costly.

The fact that almost an entire flock of Ducks wanted to do harm to Steve Ott wasn't surprising - that's almost expected. No, what I found interesting was that when one of their toughest (Travis Moen) got a hold of him and was raining fists on his cranium with Ott trying in vain to limit the damage without dropping gloves and risking re-injure to his surgically repaired broken hand, none of the Dallas Stars on the ice came to his aid.

Sure the game was over.

Yes the personnel Tippett had on the pond trying to tie the game was not ripe with "physical confrontation" loving individuals.

But what was the risk? Ejection from the game?

The game was over!

A glove in the face? Ending up on the bottom of the dog pile?

Small prices to pay for a teammate being pummeled.

I'll guarantee you if Morrow was healthy he would have been on the ice and he would have intervened - same goes for a few others. Just look at Trevor Daley coming to Loui Eriksson's aid earlier in the game as an example. Although I don't agree with fighting a guy for a hard heavy hit I do hold coming to a teammates aid in high regard.

But enough about that, what about the cost?

Well, we don't quite know the cost yet.

Has Ott, one of the clubs most valuable players right now, re-injured the hand? Did he go over the edge and do something that gets him suspended? (He received a match penalty - reportedly for attempted eye gauging at the conclusion of the dust-up with Moen.)

Both are possible.

Either one would leave the Stars even more shorthanded than they already are.

And all of it is very disappointing to the Razorboy and Starsnation.