The Stars Not Practicing After a Blowout Loss is Pathetic and Sends the Wrong Message
By Chris Russo
The Dallas Stars are off to a rough start this season, and not practicing is not going to make things any better.
After the Buffalo Sabres shut them out 4-0 on Monday, the Stars will apparently not have practice Tuesday, epitomizing an underwhelming first two weeks of the season.
Stars have cancelled practice tomorrow in Columbus. Would have just been second practice of the season.
— Sean Shapiro (@seanshapiro) October 15, 2019
The Stars are just 1-5-1 through seven games this year after coming within one goal of the Western Conference Finals last spring. This season, they lost their first three games by only one goal each, then won in overtime in Washington, and then lost in a shootout. For the most part, they've been in close games.
Yet, they lost to the Capitals Saturday and the Sabres Monday by a combined score of 8-1. It is definitely not the time to give a team a rest when they've come so close to winning games, then just chucked a couple into the trash.
the stars and cowboys competing to see who can be the biggest disappointment in dallas pic.twitter.com/XtRardaizM
— hailey (@brightcth) October 14, 2019
Not to mention, the fact that any team in sports practices once in a two-week span is ridiculous, but especially for a team that has to play in Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia over the next five days.
There has to be some reason why Dallas will not be practicing.
We'll talk to him tomorrow about the decision. The debate is whether extra practice time would help refine all details of the game or whether they needed physical and mental rest. The guess is they will have a hard morning skate and we can judge decision after game. https://t.co/m7tkksQSsl
— Mike Heika (@MikeHeika) October 15, 2019
The final score on Wednesday might provide some clues as to whether or not this weird method worked.