BOSTON — Anton Khudobin made the most important save of the Stars season Thursday in Toronto.



With less than 10 seconds left in the game, Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner received the puck on the top of the circle, toe-dragged it around a diving Devin Shore — who in the process wiped out Esa Lindell — and fired a wrist shot that should have tied the game at 2-2 and forced overtime.



It was a situation where most players would have shot across the grain, and based off Marner’s initial move it looked like he was going to shoot to Khudobin’s stick side. Khudobin had to respect that element of the play and he was deep in the crease, but when Marner made the last-second adjustment to shoot back to the glove side, the goalie read it perfectly.



It was a save that could define a season-long six-game road trip. For the Stars of old, that puck would have gone in the net, and Dallas probably would have lost the game in...