The Monday following the last weekend of the NHL regular season has been a somber one for the Dallas Stars in the recent past. In each of the past two seasons, the Stars hosted their exit interview day on this Monday and prepared for a long offseason filled with necessary and imminent change.
Each Monday followed up another season of missing the mark and falling short of the ultimate goal, leaving plenty of frustration and confusion.
But on this Monday in April 2019, the Stars aren’t hosting their annual exit interview day. The franchise doesn’t look like a mess from top-to-bottom and the team didn’t miss their mark using an epic March collapse or by falling flat early in the year and being unable to catch up.