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Dallas Stars Path To Improvement: A Long & Difficult Road
As it happens after most losses this season, Dallas Stars fans reacted with questions and rationalizations trying to determine just went wrong. For most games it's about execution or energy and the frustrations with consistency from game to game grow with each loss. For others it's about injuries...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Jamie Benn Taken Next-To-Last In All-Star Game Draft
With these words, Zdeno Chara put an end to Jamie Benn's long night backstage. "It’s never easy to leave one guy standing, to be the last one," Chara said as he made his selection. "But Jamie really deserves to be picked because he had surgery a couple days ago and he still showed up....
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Kari Lehtonen Comes Up Big As Dallas Stars Beat Ducks
For all the heroic efforts Kari Lehtonen threw out for the Dallas Stars in the first half of the season, particularly the first two months, it's hard to believe Tuesday's 1-0 win over the Anaheim Ducks was his first shutout of the season. But his 27-save effort came at exactly the right time for...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Goligoski Excited To Be Part Of Stars Long-Term Plans
One of the things the Dallas Stars discussed with Alex Goligoski when they were negotiating his 4-year, $4.6 million-per-season contract extension was the fact they wanted the defenseman to take on a greater leardership role on the team. So now that he's a part of the group for the long term, tying...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Offensive Woes Mean Fraser May Get His Shot
Three weeks ago, it was pretty certain that Matt Fraser would spend the entire season with the Texas Stars. Boy how times have changed. Fraser's strength as a power-play specialist and top-six scoring winger limit the role the Dallas Stars really want to use him in up with the big club, and when...
Stars Collapse In Second Period, Lose Fifth Straight
It took just 61 seconds for the Dallas Stars to completely crumble against the Minnesota Wild. The teams had been playing relatively even hockey to the midway point of the second period with the Stars and had just taken a 2-1 lead when Philip Larsen snuck a shot through an Adam Burish screen. Then...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Stars Special Teams Fail Them In Loss To Avalanche
While a lot can legitimately be said about some of the travel issues that might have caused Saturday afternoon fatigue, the Dallas Stars really lost their game to the Colorado Avalanche because of some special teams sputters. The power play couldn't come up with a goal in critical situations,...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Stars Duo Okay With Being Underrated
When Dallas Stars winger Loui Eriksson was announced as the top player on Sports Illustrated's Most Underrated NHL Players list, there was some joking about how being known as the most underrated for multiple years in a row should have made him overrated by now. But with the list being voted on by...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Defensemen Play Key Role In Stars Win Over Bruins
It only took one game for the Dallas Stars defensemen to go from struggling to stellar. Led by a career-high three points from Trevor Daley and his trick shots, the Stars blue line was stellar in the team's 4-2 victory over the Boston Bruins. With Daley and Alex Goligoski manning the point on the...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Stars Want To Be Physical Without The Fights
The Dallas Stars have never been a team afraid of physical play or fisticuffs. With a history of players like Shane Churla and Derian Hatcher and a current generation of Brenden Morrow, Steve Ott and the recently-traded Krys Barch, the Stars have always been more than willing to oblige when gloves...
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