Like all of us, each of the Dallas Stars coped with the COVID-19 shutdown in their own way. But the Stars who stayed in Dallas had the opportunity to face it together, thanks to their captain.
For professional athletes hoping to make some waves in the playoffs, it couldn’t have been easy. The team practice facility was shuttered. Local gyms were shut down. And as the cherry on the sundae, travel had suddenly become a thorny issue, fraught with physical and administrative peril.
That’s when Jamie Benn told Jamie Oleksiak about the workout setup he was putting together in his pool house.