The Stars ended up with quite a nice little find in the Derek Roy trade, thank you very much. Also, overtime hockey between the two best teams left in the playoffs, and Mike Babcock, wherever will you go?
In the lockout-shortened season of April 2013, the Stars had choices to make. One nice thing about the delayed start to the year was the additional time it afforded Derek Roy in his recovery from shoulder surgery (after being acquired from Buffalo for Steve Ott and Adam Pardy, somehow). The Stars elected to move forward with Roy's surgery knowing full-well that it could deprive them of valuable games from their new #2 center and free-agent-to-be, but thanks to the Jeremy Jacobs cabal, Roy was up and at 'em by mid-January.