When I considered what the Stars system would probably look like under Ken Hitchcock, my general impression was positive.
The way Hitchcock teams stack their forecheck, and the collective support he demands from zone coverage looked like the necessary injection of teach-them-defense-pretty-please hockey that Dallas wasn’t receiving from Lindy Ruff and James Patrick during their tenure.
Despite their recent string of games, there have been positives. Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin, Alexander Radulov, and John Klingberg are producing (overall). Special teams were doing great at first, but have since regressed (my point being that there’s at least hope).