November 24, 2015. On that night, the Dallas Stars received a 7-4 shellacking from the Ottawa Senators. It was their final game before the Thanksgiving break and bumped Dallas to a record of 17-5-0 in the early part of the 2015-16 season.
But the loss also put an end to a five-game win streak that the Stars had conjured up. And it must have had a pretty lasting effect, because it took Dallas over two years to reach another five-game streak.
Through a consistent remainder of the 2015-16 season and a tumultuous 2016-17 season, the Stars’ win streaks all but disappeared.