Let’s start today with some positive hockey news in DFW. Earlier this week the Frisco Varsity Gold team claimed Texas’ first-ever high-school hockey national championship. Frisco won the Combined Division title (for teams comprised of players form multiple high schools) in undefeated fashion in six game at the tournament and outscored 31-16. Frisco defeated defending […]
NOTES: Stars can't survive horrendous start, Dowling and Ritchie injured
DALLAS — This may have been the worst period of the season. The Dallas Stars allowed four goals on 12 shots in the opening stanza and never really recovered in a 7-3 setback against the Nashville Predators on Thursday. Dallas did score three times in the second period, but it wasn’t nearly enough to make […]
MORNING SKATE: Stars rookies trying to make most of opportunity in final two games
DALLAS — The Dallas Stars held a highly-optional morning on Thursday that only 12 skaters and two goalies participated in. The group of skaters was mostly rookies or younger players (Adam Cracknell being the exception), while Antoine Roussel and his injured hand also joined them for a bit. With just two games remaining, the younger […]
Julius Honka continuing to put in extra work after first NHL goal
DALLAS — Roughly 14 hours after he scored his first career NHL goal in overtime Julius Honka was back in the same spot at American Airlines Center on Wednesday. He had a pile of pucks to his left and one of the assistant equipment managers was passing pucks to the 21-year-old Finnish defenseman at the […]
Julius Honka gets first NHL goal as young Stars shine in 3-2 overtime victory
DALLAS — Before the third period started a couple teammates told Julius Honka it looked like he would get his first NHL goal on Tuesday night. It turned out to be the game winner as Honka blasted home a shot from the slot with 1:15 remaining in a 3-2 overtime victory. The goal was an […]
Wrong Side of the Red Line Podcast: It's the final podcast of the season
It’s the last podcast of the Dallas Stars 2016-17 season. The podcast will continue into the offseason and we’ll have an episode next week, but after that it’ll be slightly less frequent and centered around key events (expansion draft, free agency, NHL draft, etc.). Here is what we covered this week: – What is the […]