Posts About "Ben Bishop"
The 2019 THW Year-End Awards
June 2nd, 2019 Welcome to the eighth annual installment of our Year-End Awards here at The Hockey Writers. At the conclusion of every National Hockey League regular season, we ask all active writers to submit their picks for the following categories. Voting was conducted by e-mail between April 9 and May 31, while voters were instructed to provide...
No Shame for Stars in Loss to Blues
May 9th, 2019 In the end, the Dallas Stars just lost to a better team in the St. Louis Blues. There’s no shame in that, just hurt… and understandably so right after their Game 7 defeat, when Patrick Maroon scored in double overtime. St. Louis Blues forward Pat Maroon - (Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports) It must hurt, because the Stars...
Stars Bank On a Healthy Bishop for Game 7
May 6th, 2019 It isn’t the Game 6 outcome the Dallas Stars had in mind. Faced with the opportunity to move on to Round 3, the Stars are now instead facing a Game 7 on the road potentially without Vezina Trophy-caliber goalie Ben Bishop, who left in the third of the 4-1 defeat. One would think it would be cause for concern, but his status for Game 7...
Stars Search for Answers After Game 1 Loss to Blues
April 26th, 2019 In spite of the loss, there are a lot of positives the Dallas Stars can take away from Game 1 against the St. Louis Blues. For starters, it was a close 3-2 game in which the Stars just missed out on tying it late. In other words, it could be argued that, in outshooting the Blues 29-20, they maybe deserved a better fate, but these...
A Stars' Fan Guide to the St. Louis Blues
April 25th, 2019 Few analysts, reporters, or hockey fans expected that the second round of the NHL playoffs would see a matchup between the Dallas Stars and the St. Louis Blues, and yet, when the puck drops at the Enterprise Center tomorrow night, those will be the teams on the ice. With that matchup on the horizon, it felt appropriate to give Stars...
Blues Rewind: Why Ben Bishop Left St. Louis
April 24th, 2019 When the puck drops on Thursday night and the St. Louis Blues begin their second-round matchup against the Dallas Stars, they will be staring down a familiar foe in the opposing net. The Stars' crease will be home to Ben Bishop, a St. Louis native and former Blue who is a Vezina Trophy finalist for the third time in his career. Even...
Stars Will Have Hands Full vs. Blues in Round 2
April 23rd, 2019 It’s become clear regular-season standings mean very little these playoffs. The wild-card Dallas Stars need only look to their first-round upset over the Central Division-winning Nashville Predators as proof. The Stars can use that as motivation as they prepare to face the favored St. Louis Blues in Round 2, as well. The problem is so...
Why Stars Will Upset Predators in Round 1
April 9th, 2019 The Nashville Predators are undeniably the favorite in their first-round series against the wild-card Dallas Stars. It would nevertheless be a mistake to say the deck is stacked against the Stars, though. Here are three reasons why they could pull off the Round 1 upset: 3. Bishop in Nets Not only has goalie Ben Bishop returned to...
Stars Misalign for Dallas With Bishop Injury
March 16th, 2019 There aren’t all that many lucky stars to thank in Dallas these days. Fans might just count their blessings for a healthy one or two instead, in light of the recent injury to goalie Ben Bishop. Bishop Gets Record and Then Injured Fresh off setting a new franchise-record shutout streak against the Minnesota Wild, Bishop exited...
The Dallas Stars Won't Make the Playoffs
August 31st, 2018 For the last few summers, the Dallas Stars have become known for making a big splash. Whether it's from acquiring new players through trade or free agency, a change in coaching staff or front office, or drafting a generational talent, the team's exciting offseasons have made up for the lack of playoff hockey. But however quiet or busy...
L.A. Kings' Ben Bishop Trades Revisited
August 3rd, 2018 It's been more than a year since the Los Angeles Kings made a pair of perplexing transactions involving goaltender Ben Bishop — first acquiring him from the Tampa Bay Lightning for Peter Budaj, Erik Cernak, and a couple of picks, then dealing him to the Dallas Stars for a fourth-round pick — all within 72 days. They're a pair of...
Goalies Making Things Tougher Than They Should Be
May 29th, 2018 Goaltenders are always in the spotlight during an NHL game and their mistakes seem to loom longer than their success. The action gets crazy around the net and goalies either make a great save or get scored on. They nearly always get blamed for a loss even though, as Carolina Hurricanes co-captain Justin Faulk told me, "their job...
Top 3 All-Time Lightning Goalies
April 8th, 2018 With the close of the 2017-18 regular season marking the end of the Tampa Bay Lightning's 25th regular campaign, this makes for a perfect time to look back at the best goaltenders for the franchise over the last quarter-century. Throughout their history, the Lightning have been a proverbial revolving door for goaltenders, with only two...
