When the Dallas Stars began their journey through the Stanley Cup Playoffs on April 10, it seemed as though anything could happen. It felt like that for a handful of different reasons.
For one, the Stars spent much of the 2018-19 season painting themselves as an unpredictable group. Whether it was entering the NHL Holiday Break just two games above .500 and outside the playoff picture or their CEO publicly ripping the team’s top two players, you could never surely guess where they were going. They would follow most of their winning streaks with losing skids and fumbled through the first half of their schedule before hitting the gas in the second act.