Afterwords: Dogmatic Dominance

Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty ImagesI can’t stop the dogs of war

I can’t stop the dogs of war

Hmmmmmmm

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I remember back in 2013-14, the refrain about the Dallas Stars in the playoffs was this: they were a one-line team with a young defense, a team that needed great games from Kari Lehtonen (and often got them) to have a puncher’s chance of moving past Anaheim. In short, there were good reasons why they were the eighth seed, and those reasons would hold up in the playoffs.

They did, more or less. Dallas won two games on home ice thanks to Kari Lehtonen and Jamie Benn, along with the pitbull line driving Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry to distraction, and Getzlaf then missing game four (with a…