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Afterwords: The Western Conference Has Run Out of Teams for the Stars to Beat

When every day begins this way

Gets you down and can drive you mad

The daily grind can freak your mind

But life isn’t all that bad

It’s fitting, I suppose, that in the season of three different seasons standing on each other’s shoulders underneath a trench coat, the Stars are about to enter a fourth playoff series.

Personally, I stopped trying to apply conventional wisdom to this team back in January. It happened in the midst of a full-throated roar from 70,000 people in the Cotton Bowl, all of them serenading Alex Radulov’s one-timer with unabashed joy—a goal that nobody would have guessed would presage another Russian’s game-winning one-timer from the same circle eight months later.