0 comments by Luther Xue on 1/10/2013
Today we preview what the goalie situation is going to look like this season in Dallas. In other words: Kari Lehtonen, Kari Lehtonen and Kari Lehtonen. The Stars have always been a strong goalie development team and this year is certainly no different with the addition of Christopher Nihlstorp to the organization to the already […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 1/9/2013
Today’s post on the Stars is over the defensive side of the ice for the team. Last season, Dallas was a mediocre (maybe even a poor) team defensively. Missed assignments were abundant and any team with some speedy forwards gave Dallas a lot of trouble. Their defensive numbers would have been much worse if not […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 1/8/2013
Yesterday we previewed the top-six forwards that will be playing for the Stars this season. Today’s post is about the rest of the forwards that will or might see time with the Stars on the bottom two lines. Last season we saw guys like Radek Dvorak, Adam Burish and Jake Dowell occupying these spots. They […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 1/7/2013
The Stars enter this season with the forward position as good as it’s been in a long time. The team actually has a true top-six instead of a top-four and two late line grinders and signed a couple of guys to shore up a horrific power play. It’s a solid mix of veterans, a couple […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 12/17/2012
Texas Stars This past week couldn't have gotten much better for the Texas Stars. They had two back-to-back games on the road against the Abbotsford Heat (the top team in the AHL at the time) and came away with three out of four points. They've gotten 10 out of 14 points since the beginning of […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 12/10/2012
Texas Stars It was another positive week for the Texas Stars as they went 2-0-1-0 in their three games last week. They squeaked out an OT win over the Milwaukee Admirals before falling in overtime (their third straight overtime game) to the Houston Aeros. They closed the week with a resounding 4-1 win over the […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 12/3/2012
Texas Stars It was a pretty difficult, though in the end rewarding, week for the Texas Stars. The team had four games last week, all on the road, and came out of it with a 3-1-0 record. There was a squeaker 5-4 win and another that ended after a 10-round shootout. There was a little […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 11/26/2012
Texas Stars Some steam left the Texas Stars train last week. The Stars were heading into the week on a three-game winning streak but ended up losing two of three games last week (one in overtime). Cristopher Nilstorp’s back-to-back shutouts were quickly forgotten as he gave up six goals in the Wednesday game against the […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 11/19/2012
Texas Stars To put it succinctly, it was the Cristopher Nilstorp show last week for the Texas Stars. Nilstorp put up back-to-back shutouts (including a 1-0 shootout win in which he stopped eight of nine attempts) and carried the Stars to their longest win streak of the year (three games). Nilstorp might have been fired […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 11/12/2012
Texas Stars The best thing you could say about the Texas Stars this week was that the team got progressively better as the week went on. They lost 3-0 to the Toronto Marlies, a 5-4 shootout loss to the Lake Erie Monsters and then finally got back in the win column with a 4-2 win […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 11/5/2012
Texas Stars The Stars had only one game last week and it didn’t go so well as they lost 4-1 to the Grand Rapids Griffins. It’s been a tough couple of weeks for the Stars as they’ve lost five of their last six games (allowing at least four goals in all those losses) and the […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 10/29/2012
Texas Stars After getting destroyed in three games a couple of weeks ago, the Stars went 1-1-0 last week and had a vastly improved defensive effort (well for one game at least). They beat the Milwaukee Admirals 3-1 off a strong effort from Jack Campbell and Jamie Oleksiak’s first goal of his AHL career. Things […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 10/15/2012
Texas Stars The Stars are off to a nice 2-0-0 start with wins over the San Antonio Rampage and the Charlotte Checkers. The standout performer so far has been the new guy, Cody Eakin. Eakin has looked like a hell of playmaker on both sides of the ice and finished up with two goals and […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 10/8/2012
With the NHL lockout looking like it’s on for the long haul, the hockey focus will be on the Stars prospects and overseas players. This is the schedule for those players this week and a few updates on how those players performed in the previous week. Texas Stars The Stars finished their preseason last […]
0 comments by Luther Xue on 10/2/2012
Jamie Benn became the third Dallas Stars player to make the temporary move over to Europe (you’re gonna need a translation for all the German) today as he signed with the Hamburg Freezers (yeah, you heard that right). The Freezers are part of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the top league in Germany. The Freezers are […]
