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Not The Way You Want To Lose A Game

by Paul on 11/05/09 at 07:47 AM ET
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from Razor With An Edge,

The new World’s Worst Way to Lose a Hockey Game is to outshoot the opponent 40-22, surrender the lead in the final minute, have a phantom delay of game penalty called on your defenseman in overtime and then allow the game winner on the ensuing 4 on 3 powerplay.

What a steaming, feces-encrusted way to decide a hockey game.

Sure refs are human and they make mistakes, but seriously!? If you watch the replay one of the two refs was just 5 or 6 feet away from Grossman when he allegedly shot the puck out of play from behind his own blueline. If the guy is so incompetent that he can’t make a proper judgment on a play like that - a call that could potentially decide the game – then he probably should be in a different vocation.

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Do remember a delay of game can be called from anywhere on the ice, not just from the defensive zone.  In this instance, I think the refs just missed the call, since I don’t think Grossman deliberately shot the puck out of play.

added 11:15am, Video of the OT goal by the Flames followed by the delay of game call can be watched below…

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Do The Stars Still Have The Winning Formula?

by Paul on 10/28/09 at 09:19 PM ET
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from Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News,

I was told by several people after last season that the expectation was that Les Jackson would return as GM and the coaching staff would return intact. Hicks felt otherwise. He made a bold move in hiring a new GM and coaching staff at a significant cost to the organization, and it appears he made the move pretty quietly and pretty much on his own.

So when he says he wants to remain the owner of the Stars, I believe him. He likes this team. He wants this team to win, and he believes it can win and make money.

That last part is important, and it should be. Owners can’t be expected to just lose money season after season.

But the reason it should be important to fans is that the formula for making money on a Sunbelt hockey team is to win. There’s really no other way to be profitable. Hicks wrote the book on the strategy in the 1990s, and other teams have tried to copy it. Spend money, win games, get into the playoffs, go a few rounds, and your team will make money.

Now, it will make money as long as the ceiling for payroll doesn’t go too high.

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Ott Will Be Talking With Campbell & Scuderi Gets Fined

by Paul on 10/26/09 at 06:59 PM ET
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via Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News,

Stars GM Joe Nieuwendyk just confirmed that Steve Ott will have a phone hearing with the NHL on his hip check on Blues defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo Saturday.

Nieuwendyk said he has no feeling on whether Ott could receive a suspension, just that the league said a lot of incidents had happened over the weekend and they are being proactive on them.

Also, Mr. Campbell was on HNIC Radio this afternoon and stated Rob Scuderi was fined for his hit on Jason Chimera.

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Steve Ott Hits Draw The Blues Attention

by Paul on 10/25/09 at 08:44 AM ET
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from Jeremy Rutherford of the Morning Skate at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

Here’s somee postgame reaction from the Blues following Saturday’s loss to the Stars.

In the second period, Dallas’ Steve Ott leveled Blues defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo. Ott laid a hip check on Colaiacovo, which instigated a team-wide brawl, ending with a combined six penalties on both teams.

“There’s 18,000 people that will agree with me and say that was a dirty hit,” Colaiacovo said. “Hopefully the league will take a look at it, and do what’s right.”

added 3:23pm, I have added the Ott hit on Colaiacovo below the first video.

continued and another hit by Ott should be looked at by the NHL too.  Check out the knee on B. J. Crombeen late in the game last night.

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Modano Day-To-Month

by Paul on 10/19/09 at 08:50 PM ET
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from Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News,

Mike Modano was flying through a morning skate practice on Friday and looked good, whipping shots on net, flipping backhanded passes to teammates and skating with the natural stride that looks all too smooth to come from 39-year-old legs.

And then it happened.

“I tried a one-timer from (Mike) Ribeiro, and it just fell apart,” Modano said of a tweak to a rib injury that has kept him out since the first game of the season.

And so the Stars center went from thinking he would be in the lineup Monday against the Kings to not knowing when he might return. He said he doubts he will be on the Stars’ three-game road trip that starts Wednesday in Anaheim and lists himself as “day to day for the next month.”

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Stars Grasping Crawford’s Style Of Play

by Paul on 10/15/09 at 08:22 PM ET
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from Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News,

...with the Stars boasting a lineup that typically features eight players who are 25 or younger, Dallas has entered a new era. And with the players buying into coach Marc Crawford’s system of aggressive skating, the Stars don’t look old and slow. What’s more, they seem to have forged an identity pretty quickly.

“It’s a fun way to play, it’s an effective way to play,” said center Mike Ribeiro. “What’s not to like?”

The Stars, after five games, rank second in the NHL in goal differential at plus-1.80 and fourth in shot differential at plus-7.6. In other words, they have been better than the opposition while putting up a 2-0-3 record (.700 in points percentage).

But the test of that identity will come this weekend, as the Stars play host to the Bruins tonight and travel to Chicago on Saturday. The games aren’t do-or-die, but they will give a better idea of what’s different about this team.

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Isn’t Always About The Money?

by Paul on 10/15/09 at 11:29 AM ET
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from Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News,

We’re deep into a “he said-he said” situation here with our friendly satellite carriers—Dish Network and DirecTV.

Dish and Fox Sports Southwest can’t agree on 20 Stars games _ about one quarter of the season _ that have been taken from Channel 27 and added to the FSSW schedule this season. For now, those games will be carried by all the cable systems and DirecTV but not Dish. So why won’t Dish carry them? Dish subscribers missed out on last night’s Stars romp over Nashville. You can be sure the grievance between Dish and FSSW is all about $$$$.

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Modano Now Out With Cracked Rib

by Paul on 10/06/09 at 03:37 PM ET
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from Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News,

Mike Modano saaid that is is discovered he has a small “crack’’ in his ribs and that he will be out “at least a week’’ after he tried to skate Tuesday morning in Edmonton and left the ice early.

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Stars May Have To Address Cap Issues Next Season

by Paul on 10/05/09 at 10:45 AM ET
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from Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News,

Basically, just to bring back the exact same roster, the team already has added about $4.5 million in raises for Eriksson (who makes $1.6 million this season) and Robidas (who makes $1.5 million this season).

Now, mix that with the fact that they still have unrestricted free agents in: Marty Turco, Mike Modano, Jere Lehtinen, Steve Ott, Alex Auld, Toby Petersen, and Krys Barch as well as restricted free agents in: James Neal, Fabian Brunnstrom, Nicklas Grossman, Matt Niskanen and Tom Wandell, and you have some interesting decisions to make.

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Modano Will Have Test On Sore Ribs

by Paul on 10/04/09 at 02:33 PM ET
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from Richard Durrett at the Dallas Stars Blog at ESPN,

Stars coach Marc Crawford said Mike Modano hurt his rib in Saturday’s game and that he will get some X-rays on Monday to determine the severity of the injury. Modano did not practice Sunday, but did get treatment.

“Right at the end of the game, he was speared to get a loose puck away from him and it hit him exactly right or exactly wrong,” Crawford said. “He’ll have a scan tomorrow and we’ll see where it’s at.”

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