A big game from big players sends the team into hiatus on a high note. Plus, how tax law may affect at least one of this spring's biggest free-agent negotiations, and why Jagr deserves his own All-Star rule.
The 2016 NHL All-Star break is here, and the Dallas Stars will go into hiatus on a high note after ending a three-game home stand with a gritty 2-1 win over the Calgary Flames.
You may have expected the Stars to beat a struggling team on its second night of a back-to-back, but the value of the victory is in how the team has dragged itself out of a tough January and gotten stronger, says Mike Heika:
[T]he Stars have wrangled this stretch like a bear in the woods and lived to tell about it.