Happy Saturday everyone! Dallas Stars content was a bit light yesterday, hence the light links.
For a long while this season, Dam Hamhuis and Greg Pateryn were a great defensive duo. Then, all of the sudden, they weren’t. After successfully locking down the opponents’ top lines for several months, Hamhuis and Pateryn consistently got beat down the stretch and their play definitely had an impact on the Stars’ collapse:
Hamhuis wore down as the season went on, and he either was caught up in the negative momentum of the team’s collapse or he showed his age down the stretch.