If you had to pick a cartoon to emblemize the Dallas Stars season so far, it would probably be Peanuts with the Stars as Charlie Brown and the hockey gods as Lucy. Just when it seems like they're getting things together to kick that football through the uprights, something happens to yank it away from them at the last moment.
That's what happened tonight in Dallas as the Stars overcame a bad start but kept finding the wrong end of the stick in other ways, losing a first period lead and falling to the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2.