The news out of the analytics side is not all bad - despite the obvious dips in scoring chance ratio, other parts of the Stars recent skid can be more easily explained.
Since the calendar flipped over to 2016, things haven't been quite as fine for the Dallas Stars.
Sure, the team is still sitting in an extremely comfortable playoff position with a double-digit margin over the second wild card position, but the losses that they avoided for the first three months of the season all of a sudden seem to be piling up. Since the start of January, the team is just 1-3-1.