points in the Stars' last regular-season game to finish with 87 points on the season and win the Art Ross Trophy. His final point, a secondary assist with 8.5 seconds left in the game, allowed him to overtake John Tavares for the award. In the 2015–16 season, the Stars won their first Central Division title since 1998 and posted the best regular-season record in the Western Conference. In the first round of the playoffs, they defeated the Minnesota Wild in six games. In the second round, they faced the St. Louis Blues, for the first time since 2001, and lost the series in seven games. The Stars finished with a 34–37–11 record in an injury-plagued 2016–17 season, missing the playoffs for the seventh time in the past nine seasons. As a result, the team announced that head coach Lindy Ruff's contract would not be renewed. Ken Hitchcock returned as head coach for the following season, and once again, the Stars missed the playoffs. Hitchcock retired after the season and was succeeded at the head coaching spot by Jim Montgomery. Montgomery's first season as the Stars coach saw the team make the playoffs, defeating the Nashville Predators in a six-game series the first round, but falling to the eventual Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues in seven games, losing game seven on the road in double-overtime by a score of 2–1 despite a 52-save performance by goaltender Ben Bishop. In the 2019–20 season, the Stars defeated the Vegas Golden Knights in five games to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 2000. They went on to lose to the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games. In the next season, they missed the playoffs for the first time since 2018. The Stars finished the 2021-22 season in the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference, and played the Calgary Flames in the first round of the playoffs. They were defeated by the Flames in Game 7, losing 3–2 in overtime. After the team's playoff elimination, head coach Rick Bowness announced that he would be leaving the team. Team information Arena When the Stars first moved from Minnesota, they played in Reunion Arena, which they shared with the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks. For hockey, Reunion Arena held 17,001 for NHL games. Throughout the hockey history of Reunion Arena, the arena was known for having one of the worst