Stanley Cup Playoffs

More than 100 Dallas Stars fans lined up against the fence on the east side of the airport where private hangars are located and cheered as the team exited the charter plane.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are the champions of bubble hockey.

The plucky Stars are embracing the underdog role missing several key players to injury and feel as if they're playing with house money, while the deep, talented Lightning still feel like the favorites up 3-2 in the series.

Nikita Kucherov and the Tampa Bay Lightning got themselves up off the ice to get even in the Stanley Cup Final.

Born when Kazakhstan was still part of the Soviet Union, Anton Khudobin just wanted to make it to the NHL one day. Little did he dream of winning the Stanley Cup.

The leaves are starting to change color around the NHL playoff bubble, and, at most, seven games remain before the Stanley Cup is handed out.

From their miserable 1-7-1 start to the season way back in October, to an unexpected coaching change for off-ice issues in December after they were back on the winning track, and then that 0-4-2 span into mid-March, these Stars still have a chance to win their second Stanley Cup championship.

Jamie Benn and Dallas enjoyed the moment so much that the relative silence was pretty much an afterthought.

The Dallas Stars were fourth in the Western Conference when the NHL season paused for the pandemic.

Anton Khudobin gloved the puck out of the air on Shea Theodore's shot at the most intense moment of the game like it was part of a leisurely morning practice.

Tyler Seguin tried to answer what happened in the Western Conference final to the Dallas offense that lit it up last round.

Mikael Backlund scored Calgary's second short-handed goal in as many nights, Cam Talbot stopped 35 shots in his second shutout this postseason and the Flames beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 on Friday night to take a 2-1 series lead in their Western Conference playoff series.