The Dallas Stars found a lot of positives during the month of October 2017. They also ran into a lot of undeniable questions. Let’s take a look at how the team progressed throughout the month and what they look like going forward.
It was an interesting first month of the 2017-18 regular season for the Dallas Stars. There’s really no other way to put it.
On October 6, the Stars put a long and treacherous offseason to rest and kicked off regular season play. The first game of the year marked a 181-day hiatus from regular season action for the Stars, and it was long overdue.
Dallas finished the 2016-17 season with their second-worst record in franchise history at 34-37-11. The 16-17 season included plenty of uncertainty and misery as the Stars fell hard from their lofty preseason expectations. The team could never get it going and fell behind early, leaving the rest of the season open for disastrous results.
But they rebounded strongly in the offseason. The Dallas Stars took control of the 2017 summer, adding some of the league’s top talent and successfully filling all of their weak points in the process.
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As a result, they entered the 2017-18 season with high hopes surrounding them. Many expected them to have a bounce back year but were cautious due to the Stars’ history when dealing with lofty expectations. Still, Dallas was expected to do big things.
After one month of play, it’s clear that just about nothing has gone “according to plan.” But that’s okay, at least for now. That’s because the Stars are doing relatively well through one month of play.
Through the month of October, the Dallas Stars posted a record of 7-5-0. Their record included both a two and four game win streak and two separate two-game losing streaks. In other words, the Stars were good in spurts for the first month.
But what all happened? Plenty of things went down, and a lot of it was entirely unexpected. And now that the month of October is over, it’s time to take a look at all of the ups, downs, and in-betweens for the Stars during the first month of the regular season.