It’s not often that a hockey team can hit both their lowest and highest points of the season in the same game. And yet, the Dallas Stars did just that on Tuesday night.
As the Stars approached the final chapter of a four-game homestand, there was once again plenty on the line. They had won three consecutive games in the week prior after suffering an 0-4-1 skid, but had dropped a deflating 3-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
The loss left them at 4-8-1 in the early portion of the 2019-20 season. It was a far cry from where the team was expected to be through 13 games and had left the Stars in a spiral of confusion and inefficiency.