It occurs to me that I should be increasingly grateful for last season, when I got to write about 57 wins. I do not anticipate the Stars finding 36 wins in their final 32 regular season and playoff games.
And you know, the players feel the same way. Every hockey memoir I’ve ever read talks about how teams build camaraderie when they’re winning, but how arguments can blow up into bitter disputes when losses are piling up. No one in the Dallas organization is enjoying this. I wonder how many Rumpelstiltskin analogies Jeff Reese has used this season.