The Dallas Stars didn’t qualify for the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs. But that doesn’t mean their 2017-18 season wasn’t an exciting and eventful ride. Here is the final installment in our Top 25 Games of the Year countdown.
There’s nothing like watching a Dallas Stars game.
Whether you are on the couch watching them on TV or in a seat at the American Airlines Center, it’s an incredibly unique experience. Part of that has to do with the non-traditional vibe that the team carries in the hockey world. This vibe gives them the opportunity to do things differently and have fun doing it.
But a big part of it has to do with the team itself. For the past few years, it’s been a gamble trying to decipher what Dallas Stars team you’re going to get.
You might get the 2013-14 Stars who were cautiously optimistic and somehow found a way to make things work. Then there was the 2014-15 Stars that looked good on paper but really struggled to make ends meet on the ice. Or perhaps you get the 2015-16 Stars who were fast, relentless, and oh so much fun to watch? But you might also potentially get the trainwreck that was the 2016-17 Stars who couldn’t seem to do anything right.
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It’s been an eventful rollercoaster ride over the past few seasons.
But don’t forget about the most recent corkscrew in the adventure: the 2017-18 regular season.
Throughout this past season, the Dallas Stars put together a show that won’t soon be forgotten. It started out slow in the beginning, then ramped up to a more impressive speed, but ended by crashing and burning in a horrific fashion.
After putting together a dominant stretch from late November to late February, Dallas suddenly flipped into reverse. They undid all of their prior progress and couldn’t seem to do one thing correctly in the month of March.
They missed the playoffs for the second year in a row. This shortcoming arrived with more frustration as the Stars will now endure another offseason of change.
But it wasn’t all bad. In fact, there were plenty of entertaining moments from the 2017-18 season. A record of 42-32-8 has to come with at least a decent number of good times, especially during the team’s 25th anniversary season.
Here at Blackout Dallas, we found 25 games (funny how that works) in particular that were just a little (or lot) more special than the rest. And with that, we decided to rank them. This list gives Dallas Stars fans the opportunity to walk down memory lane and focus on the brighter parts of this past season.
With each game, we will provide a video or highlight (if applicable) of just what made the game so special. We will also put up a summary of the game to help jog your memory.
We started the countdown off a few weeks back with the no. 25-21 slideshow of the Top 25 list. Last week, we put up the no. 20-16, no. 15-11 from the list, and no. 10-6 from the list.
And today, we wrap it all up. Here they are. The best of the best. Take a look at the top five best games of the year.
Without further ado, let’s look at the good times of Dallas Stars hockey with one last installment. Here are games 5-1 of the Top 25 Games of the 2017-18 Season.