The Stars are on a winning streak. Yes, they’ve beaten Buffalo and Toronto, which hasn’t been cause for celebration since the dark days of Donald Audette, but hear me out: this year, those two teams aren’t that bad! In fact, Buffalo has 49 points in as many games this year, which is both worst in the East, and good enough to where Buffalo could surpass Dallas’s current 52-in-51 point total by winning their two games in hand. The West is not a great conference this year.
And while you might also point out that the Leafs were missing Morgan Reilly, it wasn’t so long ago that the Stars were a high-octane team occasionally subverted by teams like a much worse version of Toronto.