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 ...
The Dallas Stars knew they’d need another heroic performance from Kari Lehtonen to top the Vancouver Canucks last night, but instead, with six and half minutes remaining in the first period, Lehtonen overextended and tweaked his groin while making a save on a Jordan Schroeder shot. With their collective stomachs in their throats, Stars fans ...
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. ...
There comes a time in a fantasy hockey manager’s career when they must decide which goalie to pick up off of the waiver wire. Sometimes, the options might seem clearer in shallower leagues, but those in deeper leagues might not be afforded the same luxuries when it comes to adding a starting goalie. While picking ...
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 ...
No top scorers? No top defencemen? No number one goalie? No problem. At least, not if you’re the Texas Stars. Ok, sure, the team didn’t lose all of their best players once the NHL lockout ended and their big league affiliate, the Dallas Stars, started making call-ups. But when you lose a big group of ...
On Tuesday the Dallas Stars announced the signing of 28 year-old netminder Cristopher Nihlstorp to a one year, two-way deal with the club. If the name Nihlstrop doesn’t ring a bell, don’t fret: there hasn’t been much reason for anyone on this side of the pond to have heard it. Undrafted and never having played ...
After coming up short for a fourth-straight season, the Dallas Stars look to find their bearings during this offseason and gear-up for a playoff run in 2012-2013.
At this moment in the hockey world, there are fewer teams as irrelevant as the AHL’s Texas Stars. However, yesterday Andrew’s Stars Page/ESPN Dallas published a prospect update on goaltender Tyler Beskorowany that demands a response. From end to end it is an insult to the young goalie from Sudbury. The article relies entirely on ...
The old adage goes that Rome wasn’t built in a day, but the same can be said about successful NHL teams. The 2011-2012 Dallas Stars finished 10th in the West and missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year, extending the longest postseason drought that the team has seen since relocating to Dallas from Minnesota ...
