In today’s world, we as human beings are becoming increasingly and hopelessly specialized. All of us train to become and live out our lives in predetermined roles we happen to stumble upon. Nothing is a stronger example of this than sports – and by extension, the Dallas Stars.
There are the penalty killing defensemen that don’t provide a lot of offense, there are power play dynamos that are anything but weapons at even strength, and even the bottom-six wingers that do little but pump the team up. I mean, to contest to the specialized roles in hockey, there was – up until now, seemingly – a guy on every team that was skating just to fight or to smash people against the boards.