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Tales from the clipped: Dallas' top prospect, Emil Hemming, his OHL Finals performance, and if the Finnish mafia is ready to induct its' next member as soon as next season
It's mostly good news.
Emil Hemming had a really strange season for a prospect. He started out the year in the AHL after only one full CHL season. It’s a move that was atypical but that I could understand from a development perspective: th...
Why Jason Robertson should not — under any reasonable circumstance — be traded
Who is the most important player to these Dallas Stars? Who is their best player? Is that a loaded question? Is it too early in the morning for this? Are you already arguing against me because you think my answer is ‘Jason Robertson’ given...
What Dallas can learn from the second round of the 2026 NHL Playoffs
It’s pretty startling. Three teams made the top eight who didn’t make the playoffs the previous season: Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Anaheim. All of them, yes including the Flyers, have put up solid fights against their peers thus far.
The...
Light Work: Why bringing back Jamie Benn is Fine, Actually
How much does captaincy matter? What defines being a good captain of a team? Is it measured by the team’s success? Is it measured by the player’s success? Does it come down to whether or not a team wins a Cup or not? Does captaincy dictate...
Stars Stuff: Revisiting the concept of 'checking', team talking points leading up to Jim Nill's press conference today, the summer of slop, and the schedule ahead
Yesterday I wrote about Glen Gulutzan’s press conference. It was a blow-by-blow of why the data was unequivocal with regard to Dallas as a forechecking team: because they’re not. Not in the regular season, nor were they in the playoffs. It...
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