Despite his team missing the playoffs for the sixth time in seven years, Jamie Benn of the Dallas Stars wrote a season ending finale that will be part of hockey lore for decades to come. Benn, the team captain, became the first player in franchise history to win the...
The post season has finally arrived for the Allen Americans, and not a moment too soon. The two-time defending Central Hockey League Presidents Cup champions are set to make a third run at a post-season chalice, the Kelly Cup, symbolic of hockey supremacy in the ECHL....
Those five regulation losses and one overtime setback in eight games regular season meetings with the 7th seeded Minnesota Wild and 8th seeded Winnipeg Jets finally caught up with the Dallas Stars. Despite dominating host San Jose on Monday night in a 5-1 triumph, the...
Playoff hockey – and not golf -- is the desired game of choice for the Dallas Stars for mid-April. But the Stars, who began the month of March like a point-devouring lion, finished the month lamblike by losing two of their last three games, and may well miss the...
Jamie Benn and his Stars teammates can almost taste the playoffs for the second straight year, and he doesn’t mind playing through some pain to arrive in the post-season. The Dallas Stars captain is leading his team’s feverish rally that has seen them win nine of its...
Vernon Fiddler’s late season heroics are helping to keep the Stars’ Stanley Cup Playoff hopes on life support. The veteran forward, who re signed with the club prior to this season, helped fuel a recent Dallas reawakening that saw coach Lindy Ruff’s skaters win five...
Jamie Benn has been trying to will the Dallas Stars into the playoffs for a second straight season. The team captain recently stepped up his game in a big way, scoring in eight straight games with 15 points in that span. The last six contests has seen him excel...
If the Dallas Stars reach the Stanley Cup Playoffs for a second straight season, they very well may identify their just-completed three-game road trip on the snow driven East Coast as the key catalyst for their late-season playoff surge. Specifically, the Stars’ 5-3...
As it turns out, the well-coiffed Allen Americans’ players didn’t need their Combs after all. A few days after forward Jack Combs, the ECHL’s scoring leader (with 56 points and 22 goals) and Allen’s All-Star Game nominee left for a better paycheck in Sweden’s second...
Jason Spezza corralled the puck along the right wing boards during a power play. Glancing left and using his peripheral vision, he spotted Dallas teammate Tyler Seguin slicing through the slot, then launched a crisp, accurate backhanded pass. Seguin latched onto the...
Just when it seemed the Allen Americans were on the verge of running away with the ECHL’s Central Conference title, the plot thickened with the sudden departure of the league’s leading scorer to a Swedish league team. Those howls of hope you heard emanated in...
Fans of the Dallas Stars patiently waited for their team to reach their current level of play. Coach Lindy Ruff’s squad finally worked out the kinks of their game that had mired them below mediocrity for much of the first two months. Just in time for the holiday...
The last hockey team to capture two straight Central Hockey League President’s Cup titles is playing better hockey this fall in its inaugural ECHL campaign than it did either of the previous two springs. The Allen Americans stood at a brilliant 16-4-0-1 (W-L-OTL-SOL)...
The growing pains are traumatic, but necessary for the Dallas Stars. And give GM Jim Nill and coach Lindy Ruff credit for reaching into their farm system and moving some of the young talent to the big club sooner rather than later. The Stars, who continued to struggle...
The Stars entered this season with so much hope, thanks to the acquisition of Jason Spezza and the dynamic duo of captain Jamie Benn and sniper Tyler Seguin. But the club still struggles to find its identity, playing well and then letting down defensively in...
This was not quite the successful, energetic beginning to the NHL season that GM Jim Nill and Coach Lindy Ruff envisioned for their hockey club. The 4-3-4 Stars have performed in fits and starts, a paradoxysm characterized by spasms of activity or success, followed by...
The Dallas Stars, who are just two points out of first place in the Central Division through their first eight games, feel they’ve made two outstanding choices in naming their alternative captains for the 2014-15 campaign. Defenseman Trevor Daley, one of the team’s...
The Allen Americans, which gave us Stars defenseman Jordie Benn, and the Central Hockey League, where Dallas forward Ryan Garbutt sharpened his skates, are part of a seven-team migration into the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL), it was announced recently. The two time...
When the Stars hit the ice during the 2014-15 season, goal judges will be a lot busier. And, rival coaches will struggle to match their best checkers against one of two high scoring Dallas lines. Dallas begins skating through its 82-game gauntlet at home against...
The one recurring scenario in my mind’s eye is of my friend, Dan Algeo as a middle school student. I remember him constantly thanking me during the late-1970’s and early 1980’s for my coverage in The North Penn Reporter of the Lansdale Catholic Crusader football (and...
