There are certain moments in every Dallas Stars regular season campaign that define the team as a whole. What’s more interesting, though, is that we typically don’t realize the defining moment until we reflect on it at the end of the year.
For the 2013-14 Stars, their moment was digging in through the final month and outlasting the Phoenix Coyotes (as they were called back then) for the final wild card spot in the Western Conference. The 2014-15 Stars had two separate five-game losing streaks early in the year that held them back from truly taking the next step.