DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars have finished their last practice before the start of the 2015-16 season and the players are already moving through post-practice routines -- meeting with reporters, showering, playing pingpong at the end of the hallway.
Well, that's the routine for most players.
Patrick Sharp, one of the newest and arguably most important Stars, has returned to the ice and is firing pucks at a net on the nearly empty sheet of ice at the team's practice facility.
Former NHLer Craig Ludwig, a two-time Stanley Cup winner and longtime broadcast analyst in Dallas, wondered if some of the younger players on this talented Stars team would take note of the extra work being put in by the 33-year-old.