Okay, so your Dallas Stars fell just short of tying the 2006-07 team's fastest start in franchise history. We don't blame anyone, nor are we pointing fingers when we do. But we've been to this party before, and we didn't much like it last season, when the boys seemed to make a point of dropping games to teams they should have been able to beat in their sleep.
Not even the historic successful coach's challenge of Brad Boyes' second, barely offside goal could help a Stars squad that seemed scattered by the irritating Leafs forecheck and stymied by whatever leftover Halloween demons were powering netminder James Reimer.