Ahh. Remember the halcyon days of the fall of 2022, where the Dallas Stars would blow out lesser opponents and the question wasn’t whether the team would score, but how many and by whom?
In November, this game would have ended 5-1, with a late Chicago Blackhawks goal ruining Jake Oettinger’s shutout. But its February, and these Stars only play close games, where they go to overtime and lose.
This preview should be a discussion of how the Stars need to stay focused against a clearly inferior Chicago team. Instead, the focus is on how Dallas can break out of a rapidly lengthening slump.