What Went Wrong: The Playoff Format Didn't Eliminate You, Dallas, Stop Pretending it Did

The karma against this fraudulent bunch continues to kick them harder than going five-on-five does. More on that part later.

Well, Dallas fans, I just have to ask: are the objects really that close now? That's what you were saying after you beat the Avs on March 18. Now the only thing that's in your rear view is your longest offseason since 2022. I swear, Stars fans are so full of it. They lie to themselves so much. The latest lie they've been telling for the last week: the playoff format is "unfair."

Yeah, Stars fans really thought that they would win the Central, but when they fizzled after that win, and when it became more and more certain that the Stars would face Minnesota, they immediately turned against the format. Part of the current playoff format has the second and third place teams in each division playing each other in the first round, while the division winners face the Wild Cards. All I heard for over a month was, "Dallas shouldn't be playing Minnesota; this format is unfair, wah, wah, wah."

And notice something? That whining got softer when Dallas went up 2-1 in the series, but after they lost Games Four and Five, they were really bitching. The fans moaned entering Game Six, because they knew they'd lose, and lose they did. It was 2-2 after 40, but the Wild put up three goals in the third, and that was that. And you just know that Dallas fans are putting all the blame on the playoff format for this.

I have news for you, Stars fans. You didn't lose because of the playoff format. You lost because you're a bunch of damn frauds.

How's that Mikko Rantanen experiment working for you, Dallas? First full season wit him, he has 77 points (22G/55A) in 64 games, but in the playoffs: 7 points (G/6A). Mikko's one goal was on the PP, and that was a lingering problem. The Stars scored 15 goals total in the playoffs. Ten of them were PP goals. Mikko's lone goal was a PPG. Both of Matt Duchene's goals were PPGs. Both of Miro Heiskanen's goals were PPGs. Three of Wyatt Johnston's four goals were PPGs, and that includes his OT winner in Game Three. It's good to have a good power play, but it should not be your life's blood. If it is, that results in horrific Plus/Minuses.

Duchene was a -4. Johnston was a -6. Jamie Benn, the captain who Stars fans boast is so much better than Gabriel Landeskog? No points in six games, and he was a -7. Ol' Moose? A -8. The lowest Plus/Minus belonged to Miro Heiskanen, who was a -9. 20 of Minnesota's 23 goals were even-strength, and those horrible Plus/Minuses meant that those players were on the ice for a good bit of Minny's 5-on-5 goals

I said this would happen. Even before this series became official, I had the Wild winning this. The Stars are a joke. They're frauds. They get all of the calls handed to them, and when they lose, their idiot fans blame everything except their joke of a team. They are blaming the playoff format for this series. Here's a thought. If you didn't want to play Minnesota in the first round, maybe you shouldn't have went on a losing skid after that win against Colorado. Maybe, just maybe, you should have kept your foot on the gas and won the Central. But you didn't. You sucked in the end, and instead of facing a Wild Card, you got Minnesota. That's hockey, baby! But sure, keep saying the playoff format "screwed you over" if that makes you feel better.

Stars, your season is over. Don't let the door hit you in the keister on your way out to the golf course.