Posts About "Ben Bishop"
Bruins' Season Opener Is a Stout Challenge
October 2nd, 2019 By now you know that the Boston Bruins open up their season against the Dallas Stars Thursday night. In similar fashion, the Stars were eliminated from the playoffs by the St. Louis Blues and are also looking to put the loss behind them and move forward. The question is, what team is most prepared? Offseason Overview The Dallas...
Fantasy Focus: Top Goalies 2019-20
September 21st, 2019 The 2019-20 NHL season is fast approaching, meaning there is only so much time to complete your fantasy hockey draft. If your league includes goalies then it is important to go into the draft with a plan of attack. Who should you take and when should you take them are vital parts of any potential draft. Related: 2019-20 NHL...
The All-St. Louis Hockey Team
August 15th, 2019 Though it is not known as a hockey hot bed, the city of St. Louis has produced a number of terrific NHL talents over the years. Never was this more apparent than when five prospects from the city were drafted in the first round of the 2016 NHL Draft. Now that those players have arrived in the big league, it's a good time to consider...
10 Tallest Senators of All Time
August 1st, 2019 At the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, former Minnesota Wild general manager Paul Fenton stirred up some controversy when he stated that the "...thing I liked is when guys came up to our table and they were taller than me." It was a strange statement that seemed to fit better in a decade long past, rather than in an NHL that is transitioning...
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...
