With the preseason now in the rearview mirror, we await puck drop on the 26/27 regular season on Tuesday night. There was a shift in Continue Reading
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Stars Notebook 26.05.27
The Dallas Stars took a step back this season with a first round exit at the hands of the Minnesota Wild. In a division that Continue Reading
Stars Notebook 25.03.09
It’s been a couple of days since the dust settled on the 2025 trade deadline. The Dallas Stars made the biggest splash of the season, Continue Reading
Dallas Stars Roster Roadmap: Regenerative Cohorts
In the last couple of posts, I’ve put together roadmaps for a couple of teams in very different positions. The Calgary Flames are in the Continue Reading
Roster Ruminations: Dallas Stars – March 2024
The Stars current roster gives us a pretty good look at what an a regenerative roster built around different focus cohorts can look like. If we break up the Stars’ current roster into cohorts of 4 year age groups, we get the following:
Trade Musings: Chris Tanev to the Stars
The Calgary Flames traded Chris Tanev to the Dallas Stars on Wednesday. They received a 2024 2nd Round Pick, prospect Artem Grushnikov and a 2026 Continue Reading
Midpoint Check-in: Central Division
We’re at the midway point of the 23/24 season. Let’s take a look at where things stand in the Central Division. Preseason Projections We’ll start Continue Reading
The Jeff Petry Trade Web: Part 7 – The Complete Trade Web
It’s time. The Jeff Petry Trade Web is massive. I’ve shared parts of it over the past few weeks but the reality is, there’s a lot left and I can’t possibly summarize all the connected storylines succinctly in a series of posts. Hopefully, the previous posts in the series have given an idea of the type of storylines that can be followed within the trade web. Now, it’s time to put it all out there and let you find the storylines that interest you. We’re about to stomp on the accelerator and power through the complete trade web. Let’s go.
22/23 Mid-Season Power Rankings: Meddling in Mediocrity – #21-#11
Today we continue our way through the team strength rankings with a look at the middle third of the league, looking at teams #21 to #11. If you missed the bottom third, find #32-#22 here.
Central Division Snapshot: November 27, 2022
Today we’re checking in on the Central Division. In our last Central Division Snapshot in late October, there were still plenty of early season trends playing out. With a quarter of the season now in the books, we have a better idea of which of those early trends will fade away and which may stick through the season.