I was three years old when the Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup in 1999.
Naturally, I don’t remember anything about the win, nor of the 2000 run that followed. Despite growing up going to Stars games at the American Airlines Center with my dad for as long as I remember, I was simply too young to experience the peak of Dallas hockey.
My first concrete memories of watching the NHL playoffs were in 2004 — Dallas got bounced in the first round by the Colorado Avalanche in just five games, so I found a different team to bandwagon.