Tabs on Tactics: Why Dallas’ Shell Against New York Almost Cost Them In their season opener, Dallas tried to lock the game down against the New York Rangers in the second period. Why did a ‘lockdown’ open the game up instead?
ANALYSIS: Stars Generate High Danger Shots, But It Comes At a High Cost The Dallas Stars want to focus on quality over quantity, and they’re doing a good job of it. So why does it feel like it doesn’t matter?
Usage for Gurianov, Hintz is Dull, Drab, Depressingly Dallas During the month of February, the Dallas Stars played four one-goal games against quality opponents. How did interim head coach Rick Bowness deploy his dynamic wingers in those close contests?
Systems analysis: ‘Attention to detail’ can’t just apply to defense if the Dallas Stars want to improve The Dallas Stars have some serious problems on offense under interim head coach Rick Bowness, but the problems run even deeper.
Stars Improving Away from Dallas It’s been quite a while since the Stars posted a road record that sniffed being at the .500 threshold. After a tough start to the season, the team seems to have turned a corner.
Powerful Ineptitude: Taking a Look at the Stars’ Lackluster Power Play Head coach Jim Montgomery blames the players, but it’s coaching decisions that are truly holding back the roster’s special teams.
Games 23 And 24 Scoring Chances: Playing Catch Up 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 11/28 against the Avalanche. The Stars played two very different games against Phoenix and Colorado. Against the Coyotes the