The 2017-18 season is one that many Dallas Stars would probably like to forget.
The Stars started out slow, picked up speed in the middle of the year, but quickly fell off a cliff in the final month of the year. Behind a handful of injuries, an 0-6-2 losing skid, and an inability to step up when it mattered most, Dallas fell out of the playoff race and missed qualifying for the postseason for a second straight year.
But it wasn’t all doom and gloom. There were a handful of positives in the team’s play.