The Dallas Stars lost to the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. The defeat dropped the Stars to a three-game losing streak, as well as 1-4-1 in their last six games, and added a little more pressure to their hunt for the postseason.
But we’re not here to talk about that today. Instead, we’re going to talk about the budding rivalry itself and how it could potentially grow all the more intense over the next 2-3 months.
Let’s step back for a minute to the summer of 2013. As they prepare to realign the divisions in an attempt to better balance the league, the NHL shifted from a six-division format to a four-division format.