The Texas Stars’ home cooking couldn’t produce a victory last night as the Toronto Marlies took Game 3 2-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the Calder Cup Final. The Stars will get a chance at redemption Thursday night in Cedar Park.
Sheldon Dreis took a nice pass and made a perfect shot to give the Stars the 1-0 lead:
SHELDON DREIS! The flea flicker-esque pass works to perfection and Dreis puts one past Sparks to open the scoring in Game 3.
TEX 1 – 0 TOR pic.twitter.com/409VyuH4dO
— Dylan Nadwodny (@dnadders) June 6, 2018
Unfortunately, that was all the scoring for Texas as Toronto notched the final two goals of the game:
Mueller magic served with a Swedish sauce.#MarliesLive pic.twitter.com/p5A1Z1wtDN
— Toronto Marlies (@TorontoMarlies) June 6, 2018
Calle Rosen with a seeing-eye wrsit shot from the point off a grab from the boards. It goes by McKenna and the Marlies take a 2-1 lead.
TEX 1 – 2 TOR pic.twitter.com/uQwPg1mko5
— Dylan Nadwodny (@dnadders) June 6, 2018
Stars Stuff
Josh Lile takes a look at some AHL goalies who could fill the backup role for the Dallas Stars. [SportsDayDFW]
I think we can officially say that this wasn’t the best draft pick of all time:
Healthy scratched again, Stars prospect Denis Gurianov still trying to learn https://t.co/48ldHHI3Lj
— Sean Shapiro (@seanshapiro) June 5, 2018
Banner day for our friends at 100 Degree Hockey:
IT HAPPENED!#100degreehockey#CalderCup #TORvsTEX #txstars pic.twitter.com/YbASWCvzLp
— 100 Degree Hockey (@100degreehockey) June 5, 2018
Around the League
Big news from the New York Islanders yesterday. Also an interesting move strategy-wise to wait until most of the top candidates have been hired before doing this:
#Isles News: Garth Snow and Doug Weight have been relieved of their duties. Lou Lamoriello will assume the responsibilities of General Manager and begin the process to find a new Head Coach.
Details: https://t.co/bm5cKNtak8 pic.twitter.com/Lj96EK6PWP
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) June 5, 2018
One of the names on this list might not go over too well with some of you:
NHL Trade Big Board: 20 players who could be on the move this off-season: https://t.co/g1fBwmAQYL via @TheAthleticNHL
— Craig Custance (@CraigCustance) June 5, 2018
This is peak “we have to fill two days between Stanley Cup games” material. Also kind of meta that I’m using it to fill these Links:
DC Metro offers special TJ Oshie Smartrip card if Caps win https://t.co/SsgDsURs2a
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) June 5, 2018
As a non-beard guy, that beard looks like it would be so uncomfortable:
From playoff backup to Conn Smythe Trophy contender, Holtby emerges as Capitals’ savior, writes @THNKenCampbell https://t.co/2wAJkxkJIt pic.twitter.com/VK0N6KJNXR
— The Hockey News (@TheHockeyNews) June 5, 2018
Them’s the breaks:
Knights lament unlucky post pings in G4 loss https://t.co/tKbSPO28DS
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) June 5, 2018