Another Meltdown or Redemption? Stars Return to Denver

Colorado’s top line has been hard to take down this yearI’ve always been a glass half-full guy, so I’m choosing to believe that when the Dallas Stars played the Colorado Avalanche at the Pepsi Center two days after Thanksgiving, they played one of their best third periods of the year. Maybe that’s three-quarters full, because when Jamie Benn scored at 15:03 for the Stars to take the lead, that’s how I’d like to remember the game.

Great comeback against a #MDK rival, on the second game of a back-to-back. That last few minutes, well...

So, three weeks to the night of the crime later, the Stars come limping through Denver on their way back to the Lone Star State. The swing through the southern…