Posts About "Anton Khudobin"
Dallas Stars: Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft Projections
November 16th, 2020 The Seattle Kraken will become the next franchise to join the NHL for the 2021-22 season, bringing the number of teams up to 32. Their first step as a new franchise will be to fill out their roster in the Expansion Draft. The Kraken get to select one unprotected player from each NHL team except the Vegas Golden Knights, who joined the...
Stars Roster Will Look Different Without Seguin & Bishop
November 11th, 2020 Rumors abound concerning the start of the 2021 NHL season. Currently, the most talked about start date is still Jan. 1, 2021. That’s less than two months away, which means there’s going to be a lot of movement in the coming weeks involving COVID-19 protocols, training camps, preseason, and regular season scheduling. A lot of...
Top 10 NHL Backup Goaltenders
November 2nd, 2020 The Russian hockey legend and 1989 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Vladislav Tretiak once said: “there is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.” Perhaps what Tretiak ought to say is that no position is as noble as the backup goaltender. As much as the 31 NHL starting goalies have a heavy burden to bear, the men who...
Anton Khudobin's Gritty Journey in the NHL
October 21st, 2020 It's undeniable that Anton Khudobin played a huge role in the Dallas Stars' postseason run, but how did he get there? For starters, it didn't come easy for him, and he deserves the success, as he's paid his dues over the years. Khudobin was drafted 206th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild. He spent the six...
Dallas Stars Re-Sign Anton Khudobin to Three-Year Contract
October 9th, 2020 The Dallas Stars have re-signed Anton Khudobin to a three-year contract worth $3.33 million annually. It is the longest contract of Khudobin's NHL career. https://twitter.com/TSN_Sports/status/1314629327070343168 Khudobin Cashes in on Superb 2019-20 and Great Playoff Performance After spending most of his career as a backup...
4 Goalies the Red Wings Should Target This Offseason
October 6th, 2020 Goaltending is critical in the NHL. The cliche is that you can't win a Stanley Cup unless you have a hot goalie and the Detroit Red Wings didn't win a Cup nor did they have hot goalie last season. In fact, they gave up 3.73 goals-against per game, which isn't entirely the fault of their goalie - their defense was pretty awful as well -...
NHL Rumors: Stars, Bruins, Blue Jackets, Devils
October 2nd, 2020 In today's NHL rumor rundown, there is news the Dallas Stars would like to extend goaltender Anton Khudobin. What would that deal look like? Meanwhile, are the Boston Bruins gauging the market on netminder Tuukka Rask? Will the Columbus Blue Jackets be one of the busier teams and could the New Jersey Devils make some major trades at the...
Russian Goaltending Dominates as Stars Take Game 1
September 20th, 2020 The first game of the Stanley Cup Final between the West third-seeded Dallas Stars and the East second-seeded Tampa Bay Lightning went to the Stars. When the NHL announced their Return to Play plan, I was a little skeptical we would ever get to this point amidst a global pandemic, but after nearly two months and zero positive tests,...
Lightning-Stars: Breaking Down Tampa’s Stanley Cup Final Opponent
September 18th, 2020 It was 2004 when the Tampa Bay Lightning last hoisted the Stanley Cup. The lineup then was stacked with talent, The offense included Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, Brad Richards, and Cory Stillman, among others, and Dan Boyle and Pavel Kubina were standouts on the blue line. Between the pipes, goalie Nikolai Khabibulin was a...
Stars Advance to 5th Cup Final in Franchise History After Game 5 OT Win
September 15th, 2020 If we told you back in March that the Dallas Stars would be playing for the 2020 Stanley Cup you’d probably have told us to delete our account. But this has been a year and a season unlike any other. The Stars entered Game 5 of the West Finals up three games to one and then entered the final 19:45 of the third period trailing...
Golden Knights' Offense Continues to Be Their Kryptonite
September 14th, 2020 Upon entering the Western Conference Final against the Dallas Stars, the Vegas Golden Knights seemed to be following an interesting trend. Their offense is producing high-quality chances and generating plenty of shots, but they cannot find the back of the net. This unusual combination of the large amounts of shots and minimal goals has...
Kraken Goalie Options Emerging in 2020 Playoffs
September 13th, 2020 There is no worse feeling than watching a goalie stay down after an opposing player crashes the net. So much of a championship calibre team relies on the goalie. The key saves, the steady confidence, and the knowledge that the offense can take the odd risk because their goalie will shut the door if things don't work out. When the...
Stars One Game from Stanley Cup Final After Game 4 Win
September 13th, 2020 The Dallas Stars just put a stranglehold on the Western Conference Final by defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 4. The Golden Knights were a heavy favorite in this series and have seemed to struggle with the pressure of being down 0-1 and then 1-2. Though they outshot the Stars 33-20, they could not get the timely goals when they...
