NHL Lockout & Compliance Buyouts: The Dallas Stars Final Rebuilding Pieces

By Josh Lile | Feb 21st 2019 | 6 min read |

It should be noted that Compliance Buyouts aren’t aimed at teams like the Dallas Stars. The Stars have plenty of cap space under the old system,...

EA Sports NHL 13 Review: One Month Retrospective

By Josh Lile | Feb 21st 2019 | 4 min read |

The task of coming up with a new and interesting product using basically the same exact source material with a few tweaks sounds utterly exhausting. Y...

2012 NHL Free Agency Profile: Jason Garrison

By Josh Lile | Feb 20th 2019 | 8 min read |

The latest (first?) installment in our Better Know A Free Agent series is highlighting defenseman Jason Garrison of the Florida Panthers. Garrison is ...

2012 NHL Player Usage Charts

By Josh Lile | Feb 20th 2019 | 2 min read |

In December of 2011 Rob Vollman of Hockey Prospectus (and numerous other places) presented OZQoC Charts to the world. They were initially created over...

NHL 13 Making Big Changes Again

By Josh Lile | Feb 20th 2019 | 7 min read |

We’re roughly three months away from the arrival of EA Sports’ NHL 13, but news about the improvements to the game has begun percolating o...

Games 23 And 24 Scoring Chances: Playing Catch Up

By Josh Lile | Feb 18th 2019 | 17 min read |

Included in this report are the final two games in queue to get us brought up to current. The games to be covered are 11/26 against the Coyotes and 11...

Gameday Thread: Calgary Flames @ Dallas Stars

By Josh Lile | Jul 26th 2018 | 1 min read |

Calgary Flames @ Dallas Stars, March 24, 2012 1:00 PM Calgary Flames @ Dallas Stars Thursday, March 24nd, 2012 – 1:00 pm CST American Airlines C...

Dallas Stars At Montreal Canadiens 12/19/2015 Gameday Stream

By Josh Lile | May 22nd 2018 | 1 min read |

Catch this one on Fox Sports Southwest PLUS locally, and NHL Network nationally....

Taylor Baird In As New Managing Editor of Defending Big D

By Josh Lile | Feb 16th 2016 | 2 min read |

I took a little bit of time to think about this, but I will be stepping away from Defending Big D for personal reasons. I will still be writing for WF...