DLLS Stars Podcast: The Playoffs Can’t Get Here Soon Enough For The Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars limped home, literally, from a four-game Eastern Conference road trip where they went 1-2-1 and lost four players due to injury (Sam Steel, Nathan Bastian, Michael Bunting & Tyler Myers). While the Stars had a legitimate chance to win each of the four games, they were up against teams that were playing with a much higher level of urgency due to their respective playoff race standings and Dallas seemed to have trouble matching that intensity. So, that leads us to the topic that, other than needing time for some injured players to recover, it seems like the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs cannot get here fast enough. Also on today’s show, we look at Jake Oettinger’s & Casey DeSmith’s performance in games on the second night of a back-to-back, along with a hilarious flashback clip from last Sunday’s DLLS Stars Pregame Show. Plus, we’ll talk Jim Nill’s contract extension, Toronto fires GM Brad Treliving, Vegas fires head coach Bruce Cassidy and hires John Tortorella and if we have any time left, Alex Ovechkin breaks even more records and is chasing another Wayne Gretzky record.