A team that's seen so many one-goal losses to the Stars and a goalie who'd never won a playoff game in Dallas could easily have packed it in for the day. Only Salo or a mind-reader would know whether he saw his whole life flashing before his eyes. Maybe he only got as far as the teen years. Then he made the stop. Regular season you play someone, then play someone else.
Preparation time is limited.
Three games in, you know the other guys better than you know your girlfriend. Oh, the other stuff is vital. Goalies defy logic. From the moment man crawled out of the swamp, he knew that when hard objects come at you at high speed, you get out of the way. Goalies throw themselves IN the way.