Posts About "Julius Honka"
Wanted: Phil Housley Clone
February 9th, 2018 The 2017-18 Buffalo Sabres season has been an unbridled disaster. On Tuesday night, the boys in blue & gold dropped their fourth straight home game to the Anaheim Ducks. The loss sinks the Sabres further into the netherworld of NHL standings, with a paltry 38 points in 53 games. First-year head coach, Phil Housley, has endured the...
Dallas Stars Download: Learning Curve Edition
October 13th, 2017 Of all the preseason predictions made for the Dallas Stars, an 1-3-0 start wasn't on the list. Chalk it up to the Stars' learning curve. Coach Ken Hitchcock touched on it after Wednesday's practice. "...I liked a lot of the things we did yesterday , so we've just got to keep pushing forward," Hitchcock said. "There's mistakes,...
Dallas Stars Download: Preseason Edition
September 27th, 2017 The Dallas Stars cruised past a Minnesota Wild squad made up mostly of 'bubble' players and AHLers Tuesday night. With the 4-1 victory, the Stars improved to 3-2-0 in September. They'll close out the preseason Saturday in the Twin Cities, where they'll likely face a dramatically different Wild team. It's easy to dismiss preseason...
Dallas Stars Download: Training Camp Edition
September 19th, 2017 After the injury-riddled bust that was the 2016-17 season, it was quite fitting that the Stars should open Training Camp 2017 in a building just off the aptly-named New Hope Drive. An eager, optimistic Stars club boarded buses at their headquarters in Frisco Thursday for the three-hour drive to Cedar Park. After General Manager Jim...
Dallas Stars Top 4 Prospects 2017
July 13th, 2017 The Dallas Stars are building a formidable prospect pipeline, thanks to the Detroit Red Wings. Between 1990 and 2017, the Red Wings qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs an amazing 25 consecutive seasons. Key to that run was the ability to consistently identify and draft NHL-caliber talent, whether near the bottom of the first round...
Looking for Stars' Fans in TD Garden
April 1st, 2017 Tyler Seguin wasn't the only former Bostonian at the Dallas Stars game on Thursday night when they took on the Boston Bruins. When the 2016-17 schedule came out I circled March 30th. It had been a few years since my last visit to the Garden, so why not celebrate the old birthday taking in a Stars game in Boston. A Jet Blue flight...
