With the Vancouver Canucks now officially eliminated from the playoffs, being swept in four games by the San Jose Sharks, hockey pundits across the league have begun dissecting the team in hopes of analyzing just what went wrong. It is the second year in a row the Canucks played a great regular season, ...
After a season full of twists and turns, on Sunday morning, one day after their last game of the season and three days after being eliminated from the playoffs, the Dallas Stars made another huge announcement, officially firing general manager Joe Nieuwendyk. With only 48 games spread across four months, the lockout-shortened regular season was ...
Alright, since anyone reading this article already knows that it’s about Alex Goligoski judging from the title, let’s get a couple things out of the way first, shall we? Yes, Alex Goligoski was traded by the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Dallas Stars in exchange for James Neal and Matt Niskanen early in 2011. This ...
When Dallas Stars goaltender Kari Lehtonen left the ice late in the first period of Tuesday’s contest versus the Los Angeles due to complications with his groin, many Dallas Stars fans saw that moment as the metaphorical final nail in the coffin of a tumultuous season. The Stars at the time were coming off of ...
With the 2013 NHL trade deadline officially past, the dust is finally beginning to settle on what was a whirlwind few days for the Dallas Stars. One of the league’s most active participants leading up to Wednesday’s deadline, the Stars made three separate deals on Tuesday, including two of the biggest ones of all in ...
Early Sunday evening news broke that the Dallas Stars had traded left wing Brenden Morrow, along with a 3rd round pick, to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for prospect defenceman Joe Morrow and a 5th round pick. The deal ends weeks of trade rumours and speculation that had been closely tied to the 34 year-old ...
With 25 out of their 48 games now behind them, the Dallas Stars find themselves just past the midway point of their 2013 season. Sporting a roster that is a fusion between bright-eyed rookies and grizzled veterans, the Stars have predictably bounced up, down and all around the Western Conference, and currently sit in 11th ...
In a frenzy of offseason moves that led to the acquisitions of Jaromir Jagr, Ray Whitney, Derek Roy, Aaron Rome and Cody Eakin, the Dallas Stars’ summer signing of forward Antoine Roussel came with comparably little fanfare. Nor, really, should it have. At the time the undrafted, 22 year-old Roussel was coming off of a ...
It’s not often that you see a 22-year old rookie defenceman lead an NHL team in time on ice over the course of a game. It’s especially rare when that defenceman is not only not a high-profile young prospect, but was also never drafted. Yet that exact scenario occurred on Sunday evening when rookie defenceman ...
Sometimes you need to take one step backwards before you can take two steps forwards. Thus is the essence of rebuilding an NHL hockey team. The jettisoning of veteran players to make room for young up-and-comers is never an easy transition to make, but it’s becoming more and more evident that this is the surest ...
