The National Hockey League's 2021 season is just over a week old, and the Dallas Stars are undefeated. In fact, they've yet to surrender a single goal to an opponent.
Of course, they haven't scored any goals either. Or won any games, for that matter, because they haven't actually played any opponents.
The defending Western Conference champions' season has been in stasis following a COVID-19 outbreak that saw 17 players test positive -- by far the largest concentration for any NHL team to date. It was an outbreak that NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the league was still "trying to get our arms around how the spread occurred" a few days before Dallas was due to start the season on Jan.