With the 2018-19 season fast approaching, we're running snapshots of all 31 NHL teams, including point total projections, positional previews, best- and worst-case scenarios and more.
New head coach Jim Montgomery takes over a Dallas Stars team that features one of the most dangerous top lines in the league.
How they finished in 2017-18: 42-32-8 (92 points), finished 19th in NHL, 6th in Central Division
The team had been in playoff position since before Christmas, but an ugly mid-March road trip sent the Stars into a tailspin. None of Dallas' splashy free-agency moves panned out as planned as the team missed the playoffs for the eighth time in 10 seasons and, with the retirement of Ken Hitchcock, made a coaching change for the third time in three seasons.