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Dallas Stars: Still Much Too Early To Sound Alarm On Season

By Josh Clark |

On the Thursday morning of this past week, the city of Dallas flourished with excitement and nervousness.

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Whether it was for the Texas Rangers first playoff game in years or the Dallas Stars season opener, sports was the main topic on the mind of citizens.

Four days later, it seems that both teams share a similar technique: start out strong and then begin to coast. For the Rangers, it was winning the first two ALDS games in Toronto and then coming back to Arlington and dropping Game 3 instead of clenching an ALCS berth. For the Stars, it was starting the year on a strong note with a 3-0 win over Pittsburgh and then falling back and dropping a 6-3 loss to Colorado.

Saturday night was not the night to be an overzealous Stars fan still living on the ecstasy granted them two nights earlier. The Stars took on the Avalanche in Denver, where they had not won a game in years. The tradition lived on as the Stars played a sloppy and dysfunctional final half of the game, opening the door for the Avs to mount a comeback. The match ended with five unanswered goals from Colorado, and they walked away with a 6-3 victory.

This game rode the coattails of a riveting opening night experience back in Dallas at the American Airlines Center. The Stars came out guns ablaze on Thursday against the Pittsburgh Penguins an overpowered them in just about every aspect of the game. From a 37 save shutout by Antti Niemi, to three goals being scored by different forwards, to the defense stepping up and shutting down Pittsburgh’s superstars, they did not neglect to miss a beat.

The hope given to Dallas Stars fans after Thursday night was a rather warm and confiding sense of hope. A hope that promised that the scattered and lackadaisical play of the Stars in 2014-2015 was long since buried and forgotten. A hope that assured Stars fans that this was a new team that could truly make 2015-2016 a special year that would not soon be forgotten.

But after Saturday night, this hope was stripped away and caution resumed its consistent grip on the conscience of the Dallas Stars faithful.

Would this be another crash and burn year? Was all of the preseason hype once again unreliable for a second straight year? Will nothing truly fix this team and was the 2013-2014 run to the postseason just a simple fluke in an otherwise consistent trend of early vacations?

The fact of the matter is that two different Dallas Stars squads showed up in the first two games. What the Stars wanted to see in the first followed by what they vowed to leave in the past for the most recent game. Stars fans will just have to hope that the opening night team finds its way back to the ice before the ’14-’15 group.

But in the end, the Stars have plenty of time remaining in their season. While they did want to get off to a quick start this season, there is still plenty of time to make that happen. Every team takes a loss eventually, and the Stars just ended up taking it in their second contest.

So for all the Stars fans who freaked out on Saturday night and have lived in unceasing fear for the past day and a half, it might be a good idea to calm down. There are still 80 games to be played and plenty of time to figure out what went wrong. Every team blows a lead every so often. In fact, the Avalanche blew a 4-1 lead in a span of five minutes to the Minnesota Wild just two nights before they took down the Stars.

It’s a good thing that the Stars got their hiccup game out of the way this early so they can focus on what went wrong and mend it before it became any larger.

So to all Dallas Stars fans out there: calm down. The old reliable Stars that we saw Thursday will probably be back in action Tuesday night against the Edmonton Oilers. If not, there still is no true reason to panic. That only comes with multiple ugly losses strung together on a semi-consistent basis. But until that hits, look for the positives and get back to cheering your favorite team on instead of attempting to correct them.

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