The three-day break that the Dallas Stars have means a lot of time to dwell on their loss before having a chance to get back on the ice, but it also means there’s time to work on things.
Every year, the NHL schedule has some interesting quirks. Some of them are a bigger deal than others.
For instance, when the bye week was implemented, things got hectic with the schedule, but that was ironed out with the change to having all of the bye weeks consolidated to a much smaller window of time.
In another weird scheduling decision, going into play tonight, there are four teams in the league who have only played one game so far, despite the season starting a week ago.