Stars double up on Detroit
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Loui Eriksson, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »The Stars won only 44% of their face offs. They took 7 minor penalties. Marty Turco has never won at the Joe in the regular season. So how did the Stars win, 4-2 in Detroit on Thursday night? What's that old recipe for ...
Stars, Turco blank Atlanta
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Steve Ott | No Comments »What happens when a bad team plays another bad team? That's the fun of it. No one knows! On this particular occasion the Stars actually dominated the vast majority of the play and managed to keep the Thrashers off of ...
Where does Dallas sit at the break?
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Thanks to some pretty stunning collapses against the Lightning and the Sabres, some might say that the Stars are pretty far from where they ought to have finished out their schedule before the break. (Like me, that's what I would ...
Third period woes
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Remember the 1999 Dallas Stars? or 2000? Remember those guys? Remember Matvichuck and Hatcher and Ludwig and Carbonneau? Remember what they did in third periods? When those Stars took a lead to the third period, the game was over. That ...
10 points separate 10 teams
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From the Ducks (#5) all the way down to the Kings (#14), there is a huge pack of mediocrity and just general "suck" permeating the Western Conference. I don't think the Stars have improved much, but somehow they've managed to ...
Bad teams find ways to lose games
Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »If the cliche that "Good teams find ways to win games" is true, then the opposite can be said of bad teams. Bad teams like the Dallas Stars. I was unable to see the game last night, only listen to the ...
Buffalo tonight and other notes
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Everyone loves to see their opponents backup netminder, so I'm sure Chicago was very happy to puncture Patrick Lalime 4 times last night. The question is, if you're playing a back to back, and the first night features a far ...
Lose to Phoenix, Beat Detroit?
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »That's not the best recipe for trying to make the playoffs, but it makes for good television, anyway. The only thing I was truly concerned about going into the game was getting completely embarrassed on national television, but the Stars ...
I have a headache
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have been holding, nay, clinging desperately to hope. Clawing and clutching and grabbing and using my fingernails and everything that can be done to try to hold onto that hope. Sometimes I wake up and it's there, and most ...
We have an All-Star?
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Mike Modano | 1 Comment »I looked at our record so far, and I am pretty sure that teams that suck as bad as we do shouldn't have an All-Star. (That means you too, Dustin Brown) Well, at least it's out leading scorer. Oh... Well, at least it's ...
