In his stirring recap fellow writer Robert Tiffin tried his hand at a slogan for the 2016-2017 season. While “Dallas Stars Hockey: it is seriously going to be this, sometimes, I guess,” is a mouthful, it’s an accurate description of their disjointed, at times disappointing, ultimately successful first game. You also cannot say the words without, for that moment, living in the weird uncertainty of current Stars fandom. Maybe if we go with an acronym it’ll be better (DSH:iiSGtbT). Nope.
The high-level headline is that, after a gruesome first period, the boys in Victory Green, and we should all maybe calm down a little bit.