The Dallas Stars don’t deserve Kari Lehtonen. Over the past three seasons, it seems as though this sentence would make more sense being flipped around to “Kari Lehtonen does not deserve the Dallas Stars.”
But here we are. The Stars are 69 games into their 2017-18 regular season campaign. They are stuck in the middle of a highly-contested playoff push and have a good shot at qualifying for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2016. That is, as long as they can keep winning.
The Western Conference playoff race is more packed than ever before, with 11 teams still in the running for the eight spots.