Joel Hanley: The Shot-Suppressing Monster

By Cody Marcom | Dec 17th 2018 | 4 min read |

To begin the season, Joel Hanley was around 10th on the depth chart for the Dallas Stars. However, with injuries sustained by John Klingberg, Marc Met...

Systems Update: Predicting the Dallas Stars’ Strategy and Tactics Under Jim Montgomery

By David Castillo | Aug 2nd 2018 | 10 min read |

“Styles make fights.” That’s the old cliché in boxing. It’s a nice little heuristic for the rock-paper-scissors-like interaction between figh...

Dallas’ Blue Line Could be a Strength Next Season, Which Bodes Well for Secondary Scoring

By David Castillo | Jul 18th 2018 | 8 min read |

When you think about the weakness of the 2017-2018 Dallas Stars, your first thought is probably secondary scoring (a cookie for each of you). Maybe yo...

Many Reasons Explain the Stars’ Failures, but Ken Hithcock’s Decisions Explain Most

By David Castillo | Mar 30th 2018 | 8 min read |

“What is the cause of management’s fantastic faith in the machinery?” That was Richard Feyman’s humbling question to NASA after being appointe...

Radek Faksa Deserves a Seat at the Selke Discussion Table

By Derek Neumeier | Feb 8th 2018 | 5 min read |

Before we go start, let’s just go ahead and get something out of the way: Patrice Bergeron is probably going to win the 2017-18 Selke Trophy as the ...

Analyzing the Chemistry of the Dallas Stars Forwards: Radek Faksa Deserves Better

By David Castillo | Dec 13th 2017 | 7 min read |

In the middle of October, I had a suspicion I hoped would simply end up in the hot take coffin: Dallas’ young wingers were in their peak production ...

The Stars’ Awful Road Performance Reveals A Lot About the System’s Inability to Adjust

By David Castillo | Dec 11th 2017 | 8 min read |

When I considered what the Stars system would probably look like under Ken Hitchcock, my general impression was positive. The way Hitchcock teams stac...

Opinion: Ken Hitchcock’s Treatment of Julius Honka has Rhyme, but Questionable Reason

By David Castillo | Dec 5th 2017 | 11 min read |

When Dallas drafted Julius Honka in the 2014 draft, they were looking for a mobile, offensive minded blueliner – someone that could run a power ...

The Stars Have the League’s Most Lethal Power Play but There’s a Catch

By David Castillo | Nov 2nd 2017 | 4 min read |

When Ken Hitchcock was hired by Jim Nill, one of the things he was brought in to fix was the Ruff-era penalty kill (bad in honestly epic ways), and th...

Analyzing the “Struggles” of Julius Honka

By David Castillo | Oct 30th 2017 | 4 min read |

Through six games, Julius Honka has no points and is a minus four. It sounds bad. It looked bad too in his last game against the Colorado Avalanche, w...