Wren Blair, First Minnesota North Stars Coach, Passes Away At 87

By Erin Bolen | Jan 5th 2013 | 4 min read |

There’s not much easy about being the coach of an expansion team, let alone combining those duties with that of a general manager. But by all ac...

Dallas Stars Top 5 Failed Reclamation Projects

By Cole Jones | Dec 11th 2011 | 7 min read |

The Dallas Stars have had some success this season grabbing useful players off of the league’s scrap heap, and turning them into core contributo...

Dallas Stars Top 5 Reclamation Projects

By Cole Jones | Dec 10th 2011 | 7 min read |

The Dallas Stars have had some success this season grabbing useful players off of the league’s scrap heap, and turning them into core contributo...

Inducted to the NHL Hall Of Fame? Time To Raise A Banner.

By Art Middleton | Jul 19th 2011 | 7 min read |

In recent years I’ve often felt that we as a collective fan base for the Dallas Stars look back a little too often on the team’s past; mor...

DBD List-O-Matic: The 5 Best Stars Seasons

By Art Middleton | Aug 15th 2010 | 6 min read |

There have been 16 seasons of Dallas Stars hockey and while granted the last two haven’t been all that fun to suffer through, Stars fans really ...

A Tribute to Reunion Arena

By Brandon Bibb | Nov 19th 2009 | 6 min read |

Tuesday, the last few pillars holding up the roof on the first Texas home of the Stars came crashing down (for some reason, I’m not able to embe...

Ten Years Later, Dallas Stars Cup Victory Still Festers in Buffalo

By Mike Russo | Sep 21st 2009 | 3 min read |

[Note by Brandon Worley] I’d like to take this chance to formally welcome Mike Russo to Defending Big D. Mike has been part of the team for a wh...

Counting the Stars - Number 27

By Art Middleton | Sep 11th 2009 | 5 min read |

Every day this summer (well almost every day anyway…) Defending Big D will count down the greatest players in franchise history (both Dallas and...

Counting the Stars - #28 Steve Christoff

By Art Middleton | Sep 8th 2009 | 3 min read |

You thought we had forgot about this series? Guess again! After a bit of a break we’re ready to resume our countdown of the greatest Stars by nu...

Counting the Stars - Number 29

By Art Middleton | Aug 17th 2009 | 3 min read |

This was actually a bit of a toss up.. On one hand you have Dean Prentice who played a little over two seasons with the Minnesota North Stars in the e...