"But for me, it's pissed me off, what nobody says is what is completely obvious to me: We are getting terrible play from our top two players."

"If 14 and 91 don't lead, we will not be successful. I think this is the most talented and deep team we've had in years here. Certainly, this is the best team that we've put together from a talent perspective since Tom Gaglardi's owned the franchise. Tom has allowed us to do everything we needed to do to be successful. Whatever it's taken, he's done. And I am tired of getting emails from him saying 'What the hell is going on with our best players?'"

-Jim Lites, CEO of the Dallas Stars. Matthew DeFranks of the Dallas News has more.