Tonight was a gift. Not in terms of draft position, of course, but in terms of viewing experience.
The Stars don’t deserve to win many games these days. Not sans Eaves, not sans philia, not without anything resembling a grizzled beard on the roster. This team is being sanded down, for now, and the rebuilding won’t start until next season. I am not counting Julius Honka, that cornerstone kept in the shed while eight other carpenters held a collapsing corner of a house up for hours with strength alone, until they didn’t.
What happened in This Hockey Game?