Tomorrow, the Dallas Stars will award their two team trophies at a ceremony in Farmer’s Branch, one for the season’s scoring leader and the other for the leader of the three stars of the game selections. Tonight, they’ll be conspicuously absent from the league-wide award ceremony in Las Vegas.
Last year, the Stars were in the same boat, but the year before was different. At the end of the team’s impressive 2015-16 regular season campaign where they ended up second in the league, they had three finalists for four awards: Jim Nill (GM of the Year), Lindy Ruff (Jack Adams), and Jamie Benn (Ted Lindsey and Hart).