Dallas Stars Daily Links: Stars To Honor Eddie Belfour Before Today's Game

• Ever since moving to Texas, the Stars have been extraordinarily spoiled with the quality of goalies, as detailed in this paywalled article. Think about it - they've had essentially three starters since 1998. Some teams would kill for that. [DallasNews.com]
  
• Mark Stepneski takes you through all the relevant numbers for tonight's game. [ESPN Dallas]
  
• Two and two halves of Stars make an appearance on this list of Top 50 players in the NHL, one of the halves being the kid who I think is better than many but only shows up in the on-the-bubble list. Though given this does use past production as a factor, I can understand it a little bit more. The other one, eh, I think there's another player on this team I would have put over him, personally. [Left Wing Lock]
• Here's a little more on the injury that is still bothering Stars captain Brenden Morrow. Necks and backs are touchy, touchy things, and his apparently still hates everything. That's science you can take to the bank. [DallasNews.com]
• It was a good month to be a Stars prospect playing NCAA hockey. [Hockey's Future]
• This was an interesting column on why Pierre Gauthier has had a pretty horrendous season as the general manager of the Montreal Canadiens. But I also thought this graf was extremely relevant to Stars' fans interests. "Any personnel decision driven by haste and desperation is a bad decision. Any trade motivated by a panicked sense of that the team has to be fixed INSTANTLY is going to bring a weak return; any firing driven by the impulse to scapegoat is almost by definition a pointless gesture. The problem with Pierre Gauthier is not so much the specific things he’s done as his certainty that he had to do something." [Backhand Shelf]
• If you've felt like the Stars aren't scoring as many goals this year, you're probably right. In fact, goal-scoring is down throughout the entire league. [CBC]
• Meet the enemy, part the first: NHL trade alert! The Minnesota Wild, who have been plagued by offensive difficulties lately, sent Casey Wellman to the New York Rangers for out-of-favor center Erik Christensen, who is expected to make his debut today on the third line. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
  
• Meet the enemy, part the second: The Wild are trying to figure out which of their goalies is going to carry them, and at the moment, Niklas Backstrom is making a strong impression. [St. Paul Pioneer-Press]
  
• Around the Pacific Division: Jaroslav Halak out-dueled Jonathan Quick as the St. Louis Blues shut out the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 while Cam Fowler had a turnover in overtime that led to the Anaheim Ducks falling 3-2 to the Columbus Blue Jackets. [Los Angeles Times/Los Angeles Times]
  
• I'm not sure how there was a new issue of jersey fouls without our friend in the Nashville Predators Wayne Gretzky jersey from the Ducks game, but there are plenty of other Gretzky fouls included. [Puck Daddy]
  
• To get you in an Eddie Belfour type of mood, I present the entire Nothing Else Matters commemorative video. God I loved that team. Also featured: angry Derian Hatcher, crying Mike Modano, Sergei Zubov with all his hair, Mike Keane making Tim Cowlishaw look prophetic and Derek Plante just because. Warning: there is positive talk about Tom Hicks, but at least at the time, he deserved it.
  

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