There’s no doubting that the Dallas Stars have a tough road ahead in the 2018-19 season.
When they open up regular season play on Thursday night at home against the Arizona Coyotes, it will kickstart yet another year of hopes and expectations for the hockey team from Texas. But this time around, there is also a note of uncertainty floating around.
That uncertainty comes with the fact that the Stars have missed the playoffs in each of the past two seasons and have only qualified once in the past four years.
Not only that, but in the past two years, they have fallen short of a postseason berth in some of the worst ways possible.