It’s all over but the shouting. The Dallas Stars lost, the Nashville Predators won, and the 2021 season is now one game shy of being history.
Is it too soon to start pointing fingers? If not, you’d better bring several. Saad Yousuf has posted a long view of the Stars’ 2021 season and its veritable cascade of harm, both external and self-inflicted, that might have stopped another team weeks ago.
The Victory Green Gang ran up a league-high tab of time lost to illness, injury, and freak weather events. But that was only part of the equation.