One of those incidentally awful things about the Dallas Stars’ current spiral – the kind that bugs you the most when you allow yourself to dwell on it – is that Jamie Benn may be playing his best hockey of the season right now.
Fans have agonized at length over the Captain’s slow start to 2016-17, attributed to the lingering effects of his off-season core-muscle surgery. And now that he’s finally playing like, well, himself...
That's the Benn everyone was missing at the beginning of the season. That's the Benn who has been a fixture in the chase for the Art Ross Trophy.