The Dallas Stars completed a successful four game road trip, collecting seven of a possible eight points, by thoroughly gutting the Buffalo Sabres to the tune of 7-1. A slew of Stars had multiple points in the game. Mattias Janmark (2 G, 1 A) Esa Lindell (1 G, 2 A), and John Klingberg (3 A) all […]
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For Stars defensive prospect Joseph Cecconi playing simple is secret to success
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Joseph Cecconi likes blending into the background. With both his personality and his play on the ice, the Dallas Stars prospect and University of Michigan defenseman is at his happiest when no one notices him. “I don’t need the flash and flare, that’s for those two-way defenseman,” Cecconi said. “I like […]
Potential Cowboys Target: Tremaine Edmunds
I started the draft process with dreams of Roquan Smith, the linebacker from Georgia. Sometimes our dreams aren’t realistic. I wanted to be a Top Gun pilot. More Iceman than Maverick, which I’m sure says something about me. I ended up doing radio and typing words. And so it goes. The dream probably won’t be […]
Martin Perez and a lesson on how (not) to sit on a fence
The rain was absolutely tanking down outside, and a group of damp reporters sat in one of the offices at the Rangers’ Mercy Street complex as Jon Daniels broke the news in December that Martin Perez had broken his elbow at his ranch in Venezuela and that it was the fault of *deep breath* a […]
Just Dance, Dance, Dance: Alex Claudio does whatever he feels like he wants to do
It has been long enough by now that it’s okay to make Napoleon Dynamite references again. It’s retro now! Okay, okay. I know. The never-ending “Gosh!” quotes ruined it for you, me, and everyone else. But when I watch Alex Claudio pitch, I am sometimes reminded of one particular scene. For those of you who […]
Making sense of #FreeHonka, the re-born Honka Wars, and Ken Hitchcock
The “Honka Wars” are far from over. They started around the middle of 2017, at some point in July, as each side dug its heels in for a Twitter war of attrition. Julius Honka, then a 21-year-old defenseman, was the center of the controversy that really boiled down to a simple question, “Is Julius Honka […]