It’s an interesting time for the Dallas sports community. For the first time since the year 2000, the Dallas Stars are working their way through the playoffs while the Dallas Mavericks are in the offseason.
For the past 16 years, the Mavericks have missed out on the postseason just once, while the Stars have missed out a whopping seven times, including six of the last eight years. So the American Airlines Center staff can take a long sigh of relief as they will no longer have to switch between wood surfaces and ice surfaces.
That does not mean that they will not have to keep the ice surface clean and up-to-date though, considering the Stars and Blues will spend at least two games tearing it up.