The Dallas Stars’ 2021 season had enough what-ifs to power an entire season of Marvel Studios TV. The Victory Green Gang faced an uphill return to the Stanley Cup conversation from the jump – including everything from a slew of injuries to elite players, to a force-majeure ice storm, to a COVID outbreak and the brutal scheduling that was its direct result.
Can fans hope for better things in 2021-22? Well, for starters...define “better.”
Stats guru Dom Luszczyszyn sees “a middling playoff team” in the lineup Dallas has created – and in the usual competitive bottleneck in the #MurderDeathKill Division.