The Dallas Stars aren’t the first team to fall from Stanley Cup contention to lottery contention. Heck, they may not even be the only one this season (Tampa Bay, looking at you). But every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, or something, so Mike Heika decided to tell the Stars’ uniquely sorrowful story through five songs for five different reasons for the disaster.
Injuries were a factor, as he points out with “One Things Leads to Another”:
Antoine Roussel, Radek Faksa and [Ales] Hemsky formed a balanced checking line last season, but Hemsky's absence started coach Lindy Ruff on a line shuffling mission that has yet to end.