I release you
From the darkness
From the love that
We swore was true
I hope that someday
The sun will shine again
And you’ll release me too
***
How much is a two-game winning spurt worth?
Of course the context matters. Had the Stars beaten Boston and St. Louis to start the season, you would have read of things about how that start vindicated the folks who had them as a Stanley Cup “Contender,” or “Dark Horse,” or “Team That Could Win Because Literally Any Team Could, You Know.