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Stargazing, A Dallas Stars Puckcast – Episode 270: Texas Stars Fall Forecast 2023

100 Degree Hockey’s Stephen Meserve joins Mark for the latest Cedar Park prospect report.

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100 Degree Hockey’s Stephen Meserve joins Mark for the latest Cedar Park pipeline report.

As a team, the Dallas Stars are building a fine season. But as an organization, they’re building fine seasons in all their affiliates, and over time as well. And a couple of times a year, we like to take a closer look at how that’s working for them.

In case you’ve just met Mark Zimmerman, he can talk about the Texas Stars all day – but it’s more fun to listen when he can bounce off someone who has as much passion for Cedar Park hockey as he does. For that, he’s joined by Stephen Meserve, founder of the seminal T-Stars news site 100 Degree Hockey and co-author of We Win Here: The Definitive Essays You Need About The Texas Stars.

In this episode, they discuss the players to watch, the state of the feeder leagues, and the organizational depth the Dallas Stars organization has been working to build. They also measure the Texas Stars as a Calder Cup playoffs team, and how that will help the big team in Big D during a deep Stanley Cup run.

Been wondering if FloHockey TV is worth getting? We discuss that, too. This is Stargazing – brought to you by BetOnline.

What do you want to know about the Stars organization? Tell us in the comments. We’ll use them in a future cast. (No, really!)

By the way, here’s a link about that “ECHL Unfiltered” series on the Idaho Steelheads. And a trailer, while you’re here.

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