Let’s start with this.



Dallas Stars CEO and alternate NHL governor Jim Lites did not wake up Friday morning and say, “hmmm, no meetings today, you know what, I’m going to throw a rather large incendiary device into the Stars’ dressing room.”



No. That Lites would shock the sporting world with a biting, brutally honest assessment the team’s two biggest stars, captain Jamie Benn and top center Tyler Seguin, has in truth been percolating for months and months.



That the comments were made public on Friday with the team actually sitting in a wild card spot after a 2-0 win over Nashville the previous night speaks to the place the Dallas Stars occupy in their marketplace and the urgency there is for this team to finally capitalize on its much-heralded potential – and more to the point, how important Benn and Seguin are to realizing that potential.



That the comments were as pointed as they were – among other...