Leave it to your favorite neighborhood pessimist. While the Dallas Stars have added some key pieces that have been missing in a keenly obvious way, at the end of the day, there are a lot of reasons why the high spirits fostered by these moves could ultimately be our own undoing.
We all want to rewind to 1999 to relive those glory days when there were Stanley Cup winners in Texas. But we should take a stroll into yesteryear for another reason, too; many key components that factored into a grueling Stars win are still missing and could take this team more than one season to develop.