First, some bad news: the Dallas Stars will not win the Stanley Cup on Thursday night. The good news is that they will not lose it either. An 82-game marathon season simply does not allow single games to carry that much weight. What fans see on Thursday might be a sign of things to come or it might be a Fabian Brunnstrom first-game hat trick. Fans will need to wait until around Thanksgiving to really know much of anything if even then. Still, this is a roster with high expectations and a bucket full of important questions. While Thursday will not be definitive, it may very well be directional.
Dallas Stars: Game 1 What to Watch
