Nick’s NHL Wrap January 6th, 2019

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Drama in Big D: The NHL doesn’t always have headline making drama but this past week the Dallas Stars created more than the mystery of who shot JR and TO’s post game tears for Tony Romo. A story was released saying that members of the Stars front office including team owner Tom Gaglardi and team President Jim Lites are frustrated with the faces of the franchise Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin.

The foul nature of the comments can’t be repeated here but the play of Dallas’s best players is the main issue here.

While both are producing points, I think the struggles of the Stars in the standings led to all this. The team was expected to take step a forward this year, and despite being in a wild card spot, the organization clearly expected more. While Seguin and Benn may not be the whole problem, maybe something took place behind the scenes here and that, combined with their point total, has led to this mess.

I don’t think this will go any further, especially if the team starts to win more consistently. Commissioner Gary Bettman and the players’ union also won’t let it carry on as this is still about the product on the ice and not the drama off it.

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