Posts About "Martin Hanzal"
Stars Hanzal out for Season
March 9th, 2018 The Dallas Stars have announced that forward Martin Hanzal will be undergoing season-ending back surgery in the coming days. The recovery time for the procedure is expected to be six to seven months which would put the veteran in line for a return in early-September to early-October if all goes...
Stars to Eclipse Many Milestones in 2017-18
October 1st, 2017 The Stars will be celebrating 25 years in Dallas this season. It was 1993 when the Minnesota North Stars realigned further south to become the Dallas Stars. Since that time Dallas has won a Stanley Cup (1999) and was runner-up the following year. It has also been the home of the most prolific United States born scorer in NHL history,...
Making Sense of Martin Hanzal
August 4th, 2017 Why did the Dallas Stars sign Martin Hanzal? Virtually all of the Stars' other offseason moves are easily understood: The team needed to make a coaching change, so Ken Hitchcock was hired. To improve their last line of defense, they traded for Ben Bishop and signed him to a six-year deal before the giant goalie could test free agency....
Alex Radulov Signs With the Dallas Stars
July 3rd, 2017 The Dallas Stars started this summer with conviction when they traded for goalie Ben Bishop and defenseman Marc Methot. Then they bolstered their forward corps when they signed former Coyotes and Wild center Martin Hanzal. Monday came and the Stars laid down the gauntlet, showing they are in "win now mode" by giving out the...
Stars Sign Martin Hanzal
July 1st, 2017 The Dallas Stars have signed Czech forward Martin Hanzal to a 3-year, $14.25 million contract. The 30-year-old forward last played in the NHL with the Minnesota Wild. https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/881190429714243586 Hanzal Moving On with the Stars The Czech forward is a veteran of more than 600 games, therefore the...
2017 NHL Free Agency: Buyer Beware
June 5th, 2017 The NHL free agency period has virtually become an annual event for teams to overpay on undeserving players. In the salary cap era, general managers have figured out the importance of re-signing their pending free agents before their contracts expire. As a result, the free agent class seems to be less impressive with each year that...
