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THW Panel: The Top 10 Most Underrated NHL Players

Some NHL players never receive enough credit for the on-ice production they offer to their respective teams. Every season, there are players who fly under the radar and manage to have a great season and help their team every game without making the headlines a la Sidney Crosby or Jonathan Quick. These unheralded and underrated players ...

Dallas Stars Early Season Surprises

Now a quarter of the way through its season, the Dallas Stars are right where most people expected they would be in the standings — third in the Pacific Division and eighth in the Western Conference with 13 points in 12 games. Its been a been a rather streaky season thus far for the Stars. ...

Potential Dallas Stars Line Combinations

With opening night against the Phoenix Coyotes right around the corner, Stars fans will finally get the opportunity to watch some of the new toys GM Joe Nieuwendyk acquired this past offseason. And while some in the Dallas community aren’t too excited that hockey is back, die-hard Stars fans appear to be. Members of the media ...

The NHL Salary Cap Dream Team

With the salary cap presenting financial challenges for general managers everywhere, although they do attempt to circumvent the rules at times (ahem, Mr. Lamoriello), building a championship-caliber squad has become a very inexact science…

Scorers-by-necessity: A look at secondary scorers providing first line points

Michael Ryder is having a career year with the Dallas Stars. This is a surprise, though it really shouldn’t have been.

When Ryder signed a two-year deal last summer with the Stars worth $3.5 million annually, he elevated himself from a third-line, secondary scorer on a Boston Bruins team with plenty of offensive weapons, to a first-line winger on a team that was losing star forward, Brad Richards, to free agency. Ryder was expected to become a primary scorer, a signing that would essentially have to replace the same point production that was lost when Richards left for the New York Rangers.

That’s right—Ryder, who surpassed 60 points only once, his rookie year in 2003-04 with Montreal, was supposed to replace the production of Richards, a player who’s only had one season out of ten under 60 points, an injury-plagued year in 2008-09 where he played only 56 games.

No surprise, then, that Ryder has 35 goals and 27 assists for 62 points with Dallas while Richards has 24 goals and 37 assists for 61 points with New York in the same amount of games played. Funny how that happens.

Dallas Stars News and Notes: March 16

11 games and 3 points. That’s all that currently stands between the Dallas Stars and their first post-season berth since 2008. The Stars currently sit in 3rd in the West with 83 points, tops in the Pacific Division, but the 9th place San Jose Sharks and 10th place Calgary Flames are nipping at Dallas’ heels ...

Team depth making a difference for the Dallas Stars

Down 3-2 to the San Jose Sharks in the final minutes of the third period this past Thursday night, the Dallas Stars needed a goal. Their 8-game point streak, which had recently propelled them from a playoff onlooker onto the top of the Pacific, was on the line against their powerhouse division rivals. With only ...

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