Bob Sturm of 1310 The Ticket isn't sure the Dallas Stars are ready to win the Stanley Cup, but he still likes what he has seen this year.
in Fair Park to watch the team power past the Nashville Predators in the southernmost outdoor Winter Classic game in league history.
“That team in 2020 got hot and got confident at the right time,” says Bob Sturm of the Hardline on 1310 the Ticket. “I will say this, and this makes the Stars front office people mad at me, but that team wasn’t that good. That team came out of nowhere, got hot for about a month, and it was weird because there were no fans in the stadium. But it clicked, and it was fun, but it might have misled people about how good the Stars were that year because they were very mediocre for most of that season.
“You want to be a team that’s playing well and getting 100-plus points and really be in the mix and hopefully things break right for you,” he says. “There’s no reason that can’t be this year, except that there are five or six other extremely powerful hockey teams in the league now, with a couple of them in the same division as the Stars.”
The youth of this year’s team is a particular strength. The team’s best scorer , the team’s best defenseman and the team’s starting goalie are each in their early 20s. But even younger than that is rookie center Wyatt Johnston. The 19-year-old from Toronto impressed pretty much everyone this season, playing in all 82 regular season games and tying the all-time Stars rookie goal scoring record with 24.
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