The Dallas Stars were well positioned to take their third straight game and second of two games on their current road trip.

Unfortunately, things did not go to plan for Dallas as they would find themselves in the middle of a huge third-period collapse.

Dallas allowed five third-period goals to the Carolina Hurricanes to blow a 3-1 lead and fall by a score of 6-4.

Penalty Kills told the story as the usual sensational Stars PK seemed to be left on their last stop in Tampa Bay.

“I liked most of our 5-on-5 game all night, but our special teams were a disaster. Two power-play goals by them,” Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said. “It doesn’t matter how well you play 5-on-5 if your special teams look like that.”

Things couldn’t have started better for the Stars as 18 seconds into the game Tyler Seguin found the back of the net on a beautiful between-the-legs pass from Mason Marchment.

After Carolina tied the game, Thomas Harley blasted one off the left post and in to make it 2-1 Stars.

Mason Marchment made it 3-1 at 7:13 of the second period as the line consisting of him, Seguin, and Matt Duchene continued to dominate.

Dallas was not able to find another goal to put the game away and the saying that a two-goal lead in hockey is the most dangerous lead, came to fruition.

“We had a couple chances to make it 4-1, and we didn’t,” Seguin said. “They’re a good hockey team. We weathered them most of the game. Obviously, the third (period) we’d like to have back.”

Within the first three minutes of the 3rd period, the Canes tied the game up via goals from Sabastian Aho and Brett Burns.

Carolina took a brief lead on a goal from Shayne Gostisbehere on the powerplay at 8:09 but Miro Heiskanen tied the game less than ten minutes later.

However, that would be the last score that Dallas secured as they couldn’t manage to force the game into OT, giving up two goals in the final two minutes and dropping a heartbreaker.