When every day begins this way
Gets you down and can drive you mad
The daily grind can freak your mind
But life isn’t all that bad
It’s fitting, I suppose, that in the season of three different seasons standing on each other’s shoulders underneath a trench coat, the Stars are about to enter a fourth playoff series.
Personally, I stopped trying to apply conventional wisdom to this team back in January. It happened in the midst of a full-throated roar from 70,000 people in the Cotton Bowl, all of them serenading Alex Radulov’s one-timer with unabashed joy—a goal that nobody would have guessed would presage another Russian’s game-winning one-timer from the same circle eight months later.