Devin Shore doesn’t check Twitter.



Sure, he has an account. But Shore hasn’t sent a Tweet since September 2017. He doesn’t have the application on his phone and only sees a tweet when someone else, maybe a teammate, shows it to him on their device.



It’s a decision Shore made early in his NHL career: he was going to ignore the outside distractions. It’s the same reason he told me last season, “I really don’t read anything you guys write, and I like you guys. But I just like to stay in my own bubble of my game.”



For that reason, Shore is blissfully unaware of his enigmatic status amongst the Stars fan base. In the arena and off the ice there is no doubt Shore is a fan favorite, a status that has only been solidified by his willingness to play his best Buddy the Elf-type character in numerous bits on the arena video board.



But when it comes to execution of his job on the ice, that’s where battle...