The Dallas Stars and St. Louis Blues are vastly different teams. They play diverging styles of hockey and have distinct strengths and weaknesses, and the histories of the two teams both recent and long term are decidedly unalike.
Yet each club has already succeeded in outstripping its predecessors, and each is on the verge of proving that it belongs in the same conversation as perennial Western powerhouses Los Angeles and Chicago.
The Blues, long a strong regular-season team, have been bedeviled by playoff failures. On May 1, with a 4-3 overtime victory over Dallas, the Blues won their first second-round playoff game since 2002, when the franchise managed a single win in a five-game loss to Detroit.
That second-round playoff winless streak included each of the last four years.
Dallas, meanwhile, has a recent history of postseason failure. After advancing to the conference final in 2008, the team missed the playoffs in six of the seven seasons that followed, with the lone exception being a first-round exit at the hands of the Anaheim Ducks. A win on April 24 over Minnesota propelled the Jim Nill-bui ...
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