Afterwords: Good-Bye, Minnesota. Hello, Nashville

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY SportsIn a couple of years they have built

A home sweet home

With a couple of kids running in the yard

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After getting plowed in Chicago on Friday, Dallas fired back at the Central in a big way tonight. Which was appropriate, considering that this season has been a bit like triaging a battle wound.

The last three seasons have been hard. Even this season was enormously trying, with the Stars hanging around the playoff bubble for much of the year, scoring their lowest goal total (210) of any full season since the 2004 lockout. This wasn’t an entertaining team, intrinsically.

But this season healed a lot of wounds, and sometimes you have to tie a bandage so tightly that it…