NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In August, a couple of months before the Stars' season began, Arlene Forbes told her son Kelly, Dallas' video coach, about three events she had circled on her calendar.
There was opening night in Dallas, when the Stars would host Arizona. There was a December visit to Vancouver, close to Forbes' hometown of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. And then there was the current two-game road trip through Nashville and Phoenix, when the Stars would hold the team's first moms trip.
Arlene had long lobbied for the moms trip to be added to the Stars itinerary.