RW Michael Ryder Age: 31 (Born March 31, 1980) Height/Weight: 6’0″/192 pounds Shoots: Right-handed The Stars made their highest profile signing this offseason with the addition of Michael Ryder, who signed a 2-year, $7 million contract. Ryder will be here to at least try to replace some of the production that Brad Richards gave the […]

C Jake Dowell Age: 26 (Born March 4, 1985) Height/Weight: 6’0″/199 pounds Shoots: Left-handed The Stars went into free agency looking to add a lot of depth to their team, and with the addition of Jake Dowell with a one year, $800,000 contract. Dowell has played intermittently with the Chicago Blackhawks during his career and […]

C Vernon Fiddler Age: 31 (Born: May 9, 1980) Height/Weight: 6’2″/195 pounds Shoots: Left-handed The Stars found themselves with another good two-way forward when they signed Vernon Fiddler to a 3-year $5.4 million contract. Fiddler has been in the NHL for eight years and guess what, he’s a tough, in-your-face player. He kills penalties and […]

RW Radek Dvorak Age: 34 (Born: March 9, 1977) Height/Weight: 6-2/206 pounds Shoots: Right-handed The Dallas Stars signed 15-year veteran Radek Dvorak to a 1 year, $1.5 million deal during their signing spree yesterday.  Dvorak is a two-way forward and is known as a solid penalty-killer.  He’s played 1,118 games in his NHL career and […]

D Adam Pardy Age: 27 (Born: March 29, 1984) Height/Weight: 6-2/206 pounds Shoots: Left-handed I’ll be honest, before the Stars signing him yesterday, I had no idea who Adam Pardy was. With Dallas losing three defensmen to free agency, they set out to find replacements and one of the first that they got was former […]

With less than a day left before the NHL free agency begins, the Stars have made decisions on just about all of their restricted and unrestricted free agents. Here’s a quick update on the status of those guys. Brad Richards UFA – He’s already stated that he won’t be back with the Stars. The rest […]

We stand two days away from free agency (and the ensuing Brad Richards frenzy) and there’s been a lot of movement around the league. There were a few moves that limit the Stars’ options as well as a few moves that the Stars would be interested in. A quick update on the movement around the […]

We now stand four days away till free agency 2011, the year when Brad Richards leaves the Stars. Richards, for his part, seems to not be worried at all about his situation (and why should he?). His latest tweet, sent yesterday: Off to the toughest course on earth tomorrow with @VLecavalier4… Oakmont. Greens will be […]

In his press conference a week ago, Glen Gulutzan preached about the importance of defense and two-way forwards. The Dallas Stars gave Gulutzan the prospects he wanted in the 2011 NHL draft by taking three defensemen, two multi-dimensional wingers and one center. Here’s a quick look at who the Stars drafted this year. Round 1 […]

The NHL released the 2011-2012 schedules for all teams today so I thought I’d just take a quick peek at who the Stars play month-by-month. The full schedule can be seen here. October Dallas opens the season on Friday, Oct. 7 at home against the Chicago Blackhawks. You’ll remember Chicago as the team that just […]

It looks like the Dallas Stars will be getting younger in the coaching position. Reports surfaced, and then were subsequently confirmed, that Glen Gulutzan will be the next coach of the Dallas Stars. Gulutzan has spent the past two years as the head coach of the Texas Stars, the AHL affiliate to the Dallas Stars. […]

Newsflash, Brad Richards will not be returning to the Dallas Stars. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, it’s time for to look at guys that could replace Richards. The draft is always a nice place to find future centers, but the emphasis is on the future. With the 14th pick, Dallas won’t […]

Reports from TSN’s Bob McKenzie has been confirmed that Brad Richards will not be returning to the Dallas Stars and well, you can’t say that the news is too surprising. Ever since the Tom Hicks ownership fell into an abyss, the Richards contract has been a hot topic around the NHL and the likelyhood that […]

Here we are, June 1, the first day of the Stanley Cup Finals and we’re here today talking … NHL draft? That’s right, for the Dallas Stars there is, once again, no chance to lift the Cup this year. The owner is still unknown, it’s still questionable how active the Stars will be in free […]

There was an article yesterday in the New York Post where Larry Brooks basically tells the Dallas Stars what they should do with Brad Richards.  Brooks has written about ways the New York Rangers could acquire since last October so take this with a grain of salt. Brooks says that the Stars should trade the […]