[Editor’s Note: Brandon Worley founded Defending Big D in early 2009, serving as managing editor through 2013, and for stretches after that until 2015. He brought me on as a contributor in April of 2011 and I took over as Managing Editor in 2016. The recent success of the Dallas Stars and the Defending Big D community wasn’t built in a day. This one is for anyone that’s ever been a part of the family here.]
Finally.
Watching that puck explode off Denis Gurianov’s stick and past Robin Lehner, giving the Dallas Stars an incredible berth into the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in 20 years, the overwhelming emotion that washed over me was not just pure elation - but relief.