Defending Big D, a Dallas Stars community

The defensemen, while a key position in hockey, are often overlooked. Unless they can score goals, of course.

The Minnesota Wild picked up their game emotionally after a second period skirmish while the Stars did not and other news and notes from around the NHL.

In a rematch from the last time the event was held in Montreal two years ago, Zdeno Chara held off Shea Weber to take his 4th consecutive "Hardest Shot" title.

Talk about your political spins!Yes, damnit, I had to look up the word "swath" in the dictionary. My 30 year old Funk and Wagnell's describes it as a "narrow belt, track, or strip".This was made...