The Dallas Stars have staged a pretty amazing Round 1 comeback – and they have not one, but two opportunities to finish the job in the next few days. It hasn't always been pretty, and pretty hasn't always meant victory...but is this team for real? Really, really real?

Wes Lawrence and Mark Zimmerman are Stars fans, so they're always looking over their shoulders. But even they see the green shoots here. In this cast, they discuss:

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  • the new team the Stars are becoming before our eyes,
  
  
  
  

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  • Wyatt Johnston as a period-full-stop member of Dallas' core,
  
  
  
  

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  • the one (1) time plus-minus is actually a useful stat,
  
  
  
  

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  • and whether Logan Stankoven is about 40 NHL games away from scoring every time he gets the puck on his stick.
  
  
  
  

When was the last time you heard that Jason Robertson is playoff-soft? We can't remember, either. Join us for Stargazing...After Dark. It's brought to you by BetOnline.

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(By the way, we do experience the occasional time-shifting anomaly. Let it be known that we recorded before this news broke. Listen to Stargazing, learn the future!)