In 10 months the NHL Draft will be held in Dallas at the American Airlines Center. While it might be closer to home for the fans, that hasn’t changed any plans for Dallas Stars director of amateur scouting Joe McDonnell and his staff, who have already started laying the ground work for making their first […]
NOTES: Is Nichushkin really 50-50 on an NHL return? Is this draft getting a bad rap?
I had a conversation with Dallas Stars Director of Amateur Scouting Joe McDonnell on Sunday for a story about the NHL Draft Combine and how the Stars gathered information for the upcoming draft. (You can read that story here). I also picked McDonnell’s brain on a couple other things, including drafting goalies and asked for […]
Dallas Stars use Draft Combine to gather final notes, put names to faces with prospects
For the Dallas Stars the NHL Draft Combine was an opportunity to gather some final notes and put names to faces with some of the more unfamiliar prospects on their draft board. The Stars had formal interviews with 38 prospects during the combine in Buffalo and it wasn’t necessarily a list of players the Stars […]