The NHL’s all-star weekend is kind of like licorice jellybeans. You either love them or hate them, without any real viable options in between. While we often love to see our favorite players in more laid-back situations that don’t affect their team standing, sometimes a break from reality can feel a bit tedious when reality is shaping up to be pretty important.
The Dallas Stars have formed a pretty important reality around themselves lately, and chances are the playoff race is only going to get tighter from here on out. But the best thing about the All-Star weekend and the break from the everlasting push for points is that it shed a new light on some things we already knew, and illuminated a few we might have missed before.