Preview: Introducing the 2009-10 Dallas Stars!

NHL season previews often sell you an impressive bill of goods before you realize, at the end of the season, you're holding an empty box. Which makes using advertisements and infomercials the appropriate template for Puck Daddy's 2009-10 NHL Season Previews, presented each day throughout September.Last Season's Ad Copy: Twelfth in the Western Conference, third in the Pacific Division (36-35-11, 83 points). Last year's team will be remembered, if for nothing else, as solid evidence in support of the notion that "nobody knows nuthin.'" Take one gander at ESPN's NHL predictions for the 2008-09 season; you wouldn't see that many Dallas Stars if someone smacked you over the head with a sledgehammer outside of Texas Stadium ... But the Stars didn't win the Pacific, didn't win the Western Conference and sure as hell didn't the Stanley Cup. They went from injured to ineffective to, at their nadir, just plain sloppy, for seconds. It was a diz...