Defending Big D 1 hour ago
Stars Gain A Point, But Overtime Nightmare Continues Against The Predators
Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports They’ve earned five of six available points since Thursday. But their inability to put the Preds away could haunt them. To twist an old cliché, the Dallas Stars don’t need to run as fast as the Tampa Bay Lightning, or even the Carolina Hurricanes. They just need to run faster than the Nashville Predators. With the Stanley Cup playoffs race tightening up, the Victory Green Gang needed to take advantage of every matchup that could swing the competition in their favor. But even with three games in hand, a punishing schedule and...
Defending Big D 5 hours ago
Gameday Thread: Stars at Predators (7:00PM CST)
Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports A win tonight puts Dallas within three points of the fourth and final playoff spot in their division. A loss could essentially make the hole so deep it’d take a miracle to dig out of. Dallas Stars at Nashville Predators Location: Bridgestone ArenaPuck Drop: 7:00 p.m. CSTTV: Bally Sports Southwest PLUSRadio: 96.7 FM / 1310 AM The Ticket It’s only weird if it doesn’t work.
Defending Big D 13 hours ago
Dallas Stars with a Chance to Move Closer to Nashville Tonight
Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports Stars can move within three points of the Predators in the Central Division Standings with a regulation win tonight. What a difference 24 hours can make. Yesterday I was talking about how the Dallas Stars were seven points out of the playoffs with three games in hand against the Nashville Predators. Fast forward 24 hours. Thanks to a dominating win over the Florida Panthers and the Tampa Bay Lightning shutting out the Predators, Dallas is now five points out of the playoffs with three games in hand. If you couple all of that with the fact...
Defending Big D Apr 10, 2021
Stars Offense Strikes Early, Downs Panthers For Win
Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports Matinee win! A big two points were earned by the Dallas Stars thanks in large part to a barrage of goals early in the game. Jason Robertson continued to make his case for Calder consideration with a snipe right past Sergei Bobrovsky just one minute into the game. Then Justin Dowling setup Joel L’Esperance just 49 seconds later on a cross-ice feed that found daylight under a sprawling Panthers defender to give the Stars a 2-0 lead less than two minutes into the game. After that initial sucker-punch of offense, the two teams started to...
Defending Big D Apr 10, 2021
Gameday Thread: Stars vs Panthers (1:00PM CST)
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Two games remain between now and the trade deadline to try to get clarity as far as which direction this season is going for the Stars. This is one of them. Dallas Stars vs Florida Panthers Location: American Airlines CenterPuck Drop: 1:00 p.m. CSTTV: NHL Network (nationally) / Bally Sports Southwest (locally)Radio: 96.7 FM / 1310 AM The Ticket Live look at Miro Heiskanen and John Klingberg getting ready for today’s game:
Defending Big D Apr 10, 2021
Stars Try to Keep Moving up the Standings Against Florida
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Dallas welcomes Florida to town as they try to work their way back into the playoff picture. With a lot of the NHL looking at the trade deadline this week, the Dallas Stars have their eye on a more pressing situation. With management dealing with everything that surrounds a trade deadline, the players themselves are focused on one thing: moving up the Central Division standings. The Stars are actually in a good position right now. They find themselves in sixth place in the standings and they have games in hand with everyone they are chasing....
Defending Big D Apr 9, 2021
Stargazing, Episode 126: The Big Trade Deadline Cast
Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports Wes and Taylor talk for nearly an hour about the Stars and the TDL, which is just more proof that we never can say goodbye. The Dallas Stars won one of those four-point contests against the Chicago Blackhawks last night. That means they’ve moved up one place in the Central Division standings, but they’re still seven points out of the race for a Stanley Cup playoffs spot with two games to go before the NHL trade deadline. What to do, what to do.... In our pre-TDL edition, Wes Lawrence and Taylor Baird try to separate the green...
Defending Big D Apr 8, 2021
Dallas Defeats Chicago 5-1 as Trade Deadline Draws Near
Photo by Chase Agnello-Dean/NHLI via Both Blake Comeau and the Stars’ power play scored twice, keeping them hanging on in the playoff race. After a gut-wrenching loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday, the Dallas Stars bounced back on Thursday to take care of-wait a second... Roope Hintz opened the scoring with a power play goal, giving Jamie Benn his 400th career assist. The Blackhawks tied it up later in the period, but Jason Robertson reclaimed the lead at the top of the second. What was a close game quickly became a blowout late in the period as Miro Heiskanen...
Defending Big D Apr 8, 2021
Thursday Links: Day Traders
Photo by Glenn James/NHLI via Spoiler alert: Fantasy GMs should probably keep their day jobs. Plus, Kelly Forbes in the spotlight, the Canucks’ COVID conundrum, and more. Welcome to Dallas Stars Fantasy League 2021! The NHL trade deadline is rolling up on us, and it’s time to bring out all your wildest dreams for player deals, depending on whether you think the Victory Green Gang is buying or selling. Just don’t be surprised if none of those ideas will work in the real world. Sean Shapiro and Saad Yousuf engaged two professional contacts – an NHL executive and...
Derek Neumeier / Defending Big D Apr 7, 2021 
Dallas Stars Prospect Update: NCAA Signings Help Bolster Team’s Prospect Pipeline
Photo by Nick Wosika/Icon Sportswire via Elsewhere: Damiani named AHL’s top rookie for March, SHL playoffs begin With only nine picks in their past two entry drafts, the Dallas Stars had to get a little creative to fill up their prospect pool, especially after the recent graduations of Jake Oettinger, Jason Robertson, Ty Dellandrea and others to the big club. They did exactly that last week, and did so in an interesting way, signing a pair of NCAA free agent teammates from the University of North Dakota: goaltender Adam Scheel and winger Jordan Kawaguchi. Both...
Defending Big D Apr 6, 2021
Stars Struggle at 5 on 5, Fall to Blackhawks 4-2
Photo by Chase Agnello-Dean/NHLI via And honestly, it wasn’t even that they didn’t try. The Dallas Stars make the final stop in their three city road trip in Chicago tonight for the first of two games against the Chicago Blackhawks before heading home to Texas. This game marks the fifth of eight games between the two clubs this season, with the Blackhawks leading the season series 3-1 before tonight. The Stars will be without head coach Rick Bowness, still out after being removed from Sunday night’s game before the third period due to covid protocols. It was...
Defending Big D Apr 6, 2021
Gameday Thread: Stars @ Blackhawks (7:00PM CST)
Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports Maybe losing to the Hurricanes was exactly the motivation the team needed to whoop one of the very teams they’re competing with for the last playoff spot? Dallas Stars at Chicago Blackhawks Location: United CenterPuck Drop: 7:00 p.m. CSTTV: Bally Sports SouthwestRadio: 96.7 FM / 1310 AM The Ticket
Defending Big D Apr 6, 2021
Stars Tangle with Blackhawks Once Again
James Guillory-USA TODAY Sports The Dallas Stars are chasing the Chicago Blackhawks in the standings. Tonight they start a two-game series to try and make up ground For one of the first times all season, I feel like the Dallas Stars have put together a good stretch and are playing some good hockey. Dallas won two in a row before Sunday’s 1-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. And at 1-0, it could have just as easily gone to the Stars instead of Carolina. Tonight the Stars start a crucial two-game series with the Chicago Blackhawks. Both teams are currently on the...
Defending Big D Apr 6, 2021
Tuesday Links: Buy, Sell Or Hold?
Photo by Gregg Forwerck/NHLI via Saad Yousuf shares what he’s hearing. Plus, five players who may be available, the pandemic is still affecting everything, and more. The Dallas Stars are in the thick of a Stanley Cup playoffs push – even now, after everything. And as the NHL trade deadline looms, the big question for fans is whether they intend to buy, sell or hold on April 12. With Ben Bishop and Tyler Seguin expected to return from injury this month, the Stars will effectively get two elite players as deadline acquisitions. But will the front office make...
Defending Big D Apr 5, 2021
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Twists and Turns
Photo by Ronald Martinez/ Rick Bowness was pulled from last night’s game after testing positive for COVID-19, but the team hopes it’s a false positive. Plus, Vancouver’s own COVID-19 struggles, Jack Campbell has found his footing, and more. A bombshell dropped during last night’s Dallas Stars game when it was revealed that head coach Rick Bowness would not be returning to the game due to failing COVID-19 protocol. However, in a post-game press conference, General Manager Jim Nill expressed his hope that the test is a false positive, similar to goaltender Anton...
