A little more than 36 hours after their season ended in a Game 7 double-overtime loss in St. Louis, the Dallas Stars gathered at American Airlines Center to begin wrapping up the 2018-19 season with a team meeting, physicals, and exit interviews.
The sting of Tuesday's loss to the Blues was still there, but so was a sense of accomplishment and a lot of optimism about the future.
"Tough ending, second overtime. It is what it is right now, but we are going to have to move on," said defenseman John Klingberg. "We get prepared for the next season, it feels like it's a long way there, but we're doing something good here. We were doing something good throughout the whole year. Feel proud about where we are as a team."
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