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Why the NHL Fined the Dallas Stars $100,000 for an Optional Practice on December 26
Game 35 AfterThoughts: Top Six Scores High Five
Game 34 AfterThoughts: This One Hurts
Game 33 AfterThoughts: Utah Refreshment
Game 32 AfterThoughts: Building Nomentum
Game 31 AfterThoughts: Toronto Games Shouldn’t Count
Are the Stars an Elite Team without an Elite Player?
Game 30 AfterThoughts: Esa Lindell May Still Be on the Ice When You Read This
Cold and Flu Season Has Arrived for the Dallas Stars
Game 29 AfterThoughts: Persistence, Resistance, and Well-Earned Smiles
Lian Bichsel Arrived with a Bang and Might Stay for a Spell
Game 28 AfterThoughts: No Excuses for the Inexcusable
Two Quick Questions to Ponder Before Lian Bichsel’s Debut with the Dallas Stars
Thomas Harley Is Having a Quietly Excellent Start to the Season
Game 27 AfterThoughts: Did Somebody Order a Top Line?
A Random Roster Proposal about Jason Robertson and Jamie Benn
Game 26 AfterThoughts: Own Ice Advantage
Why the Dallas Stars Probably Aren’t a Fit for Jacob Trouba
Game 25 AfterThoughts: Big Save…Mikey Anderson?
Game 24 AfterThoughts: The Ballad of Casey DeSmith
Three Possible Reasons the Dallas Stars Put Tyler Seguin on Injured Reserve Today
Game 23 AfterThoughts: American Goaltending Battle Royale, Round 2
Game 22 AfterThoughts: A Nervous Breath of Fresh Air
Perspective and Patience, Urgency and Understanding
Game 21 AfterThoughts: Short and Not So Sweet
The 2024-25 Dallas Stars Quarterly Report
Game 20 AfterThoughts: Giving Specials Teams the Third Degree after Third Period Implosion
On the Dallas Stars and Charitable Work during Thanksgiving Week
Game 19 AfterThoughts: Lightning Only Strikes Twice, Stars’ Stick Around
What Tyler Seguin, Matt Duchene, and Mason Marchment Have Done So Far This Year Is Worth Admiring
Game 18 AfterThoughts: Getting Hurt and Getting Healthy
Game 17 AfterThoughts: Post Game Recap
Why Dallas Stars Rookie Oskar Bäck Is Wearing Braces in the NHL
Game 16 AfterThoughts: New (Old) Jerseys, Same (Old) Result for Dallas in Minnesota
Friday Fun Facts: Dallas Stars Gear, Memories, Nicknames, and Nuggets
Game 15 AfterThoughts: Lucky Number Sevens
The Winding Roads of Mavrik Bourque, Matt Dumba, Nils Lundkvist, and Lian Bichsel
How Concerned Should We Be about the Dallas Stars?
Game 13 AfterThoughts: When You’re the Jets, You’re the Jets All the Way (to a 4-1 Thumping)
Wrapping Up a Wonderful Trip to Finland
Game 12 AfterThoughts: Dominance, or Something Like It
Wednesday Flashback: Fabian Brunnström
Jussi Jokinen Is Taking Another Shot
Inside the Dallas Stars’ Comprehensive Plan to Fight Jetlag to and from Finland
Game 11 AfterThoughts: Suo-for-two-mi, but Oh My, Finland!
Game 10 AfterThoughts: A Damper in Tampere as Cats Take Round One
On Sisu, the Baltic Sea, and Learning How to Fall
Esa Lindell Isn’t Joking, for Once
The Dallas Stars Take (to) Helsinki
Game 9 AfterThoughts: They Don’t Ask How, so Please Don’t Tell Them
Game 8 AfterThoughts: Think I’ll Go to Boston
What Teams Have It Better than Dallas Right Now?
Game 7 AfterThoughts: Too Little, Too Late, Not a Powerful Enough Play
Mavrik Bourque, Oskar Bäck, and the Dallas Stars’ Center Conundrum
Game 6 AfterThoughts: Edmonton Again, but Different Ending
Game 5 AfterThoughts: Jake Oettinger for Much Longer, Power Play Patience Growing Much Shorter
Jake Oettinger Is Back, So Far
Game 4 AfterThoughts: Process and Results
Game 3 AfterThoughts: Shutouts and No Doubts
Game 2 AfterThoughts: Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, and Some Observations on Victory Plus
Game 1 AfterThoughts: Logan Stankoven Freshens up a Shaky Night as Stars Spoil Predators’ Revival
Opening Night and Closing Ranks
The Official, Very Important and Correct 2024-25 Dallas Stars Season Preview
Dallas Stars Roster Set, Special Teams Settling
The Dallas Stars’ 13th Forward Debate May Already Be Over
This Year’s Stars Team Is Deeper than Ever Before
Nothing Matters More or Less than Sports and Writing
Preseason Game 4 AfterThoughts: Dallas Drives off Doldrums, Duchene Delivers
Offhand Thoughts about Off-Hand Defensemen, Goalie Sticks, and 13th Forwards
Preseason Game 3 AfterThoughts: Defense Pairings and Adjusted Expectations
Preseason Game 2 AfterThoughts: Stars Steal Special Teams Ordeal, 3-2
Dallas Stars Preseason Storylines I’m Watching
Preseason Game 1 AfterThoughts: Dallas Stars Defeat St. Louis Blues 2-1
The Newly Nasty Dallas Stars Defense
We Are Living in a Golden Age of Dallas Stars Media Coverage
You’re the Exception until You’re Not
A Farewell to Radek Faksa and Unfortunate Millennial Summer Reflections
Breaking Down the Dallas Stars’ Curious Moves (and Lack Thereof) in Free Agency
Free Agency Reactions: The Dallas Stars Are Going to Look Different Next Year
Can Chris Tanev Resist the Siren Song of the Toronto Maple Leafs?
Ryan Suter Bought Out with Ruthless Efficiency
The Most Likely Offseason Plan(s) for Jim Nill and the Dallas Stars
Why the Stars Traded Ty Dellandrea
Everything I Needed to Know about the Dallas Stars, I Learned in the First Game of the Season
More Lian Bichsel or Less Ryan Suter Won’t Fix the Dallas Stars’ Biggest Problem with the Defense
Joe Pavelski, the Antithesis of Jason Spezza
Game 6 WCF AfterThoughts: Going Home for Good
The Dallas Stars Have Nothing Left to Lose
Game 5 WCF AfterThoughts: Answering the Wrong Questions
Chris Tanev’s Absence, or Presence, Will Pose the Greatest Challenge Dallas Has Faced So Far
Game 4 WCF AfterThoughts: Let’s Remember Why We’re Here
Five Reasons the Stars Seem Likely to Win Game 4
Game 3 WCF AfterThoughts: Jason Robertson, Jason Robertson, Jason Robertson
Jason Robertson, Connor McDavid, and the Need for Power Plays
Game 2 WCF AfterThoughts: We’ve All Weathered Worse
Joe Pavelski and the Love of the Good Old Hockey Game
Game 1 WCF AfterThoughts: Swing and a Miss (or Four)
Two Western Conference Final Previews: The Realist and the Heel-ist
WCSF Game 6 AfterThoughts: Wearing Down and Bearing Up
Game 5 WCSF AfterThoughts: Cathartic Reflections
Wyatt Johnston Is Getting Better Faster than You Think
Game 4 WCSF AfterThoughts: Doing and Dying
Breaking Down How the Dallas Stars Tweaked Their Penalty Kill against the Colorado Avalanche
Game 3 WCSF AfterThoughts: Depth Perception
The Dallas Stars Prepare for a Very Different Kind of Game 3 in Colorado
Game 2 WCSF AfterThoughts: Get Ups and Knock Downs
The Battle within the Battle for Dallas v. Colorado
Game 1 WCSF AfterThoughts: Bad Omens
Game 7 WCQF AfterThoughts: It’s Good to Do Hard Things
Game 6 WCQF AfterThoughts: Ghosts of Playoffs Past and Present
Playoff Nostalgia: Sixes and Sevens
Game 5 WCQF AfterThoughts: These Stars Are Hard to Define, Easy to Love
Vegas Blinks First: the Adin Hill Strategy
Game 4 WCQF AfterThoughts: Best of Three
Five Quick Thoughts about Game 4
Game 3 WCQF AfterThoughts: Wyatt Johnston Outwaits the Universe
Jamie Benn’s First Playoff Victory Is the Recipe for a Dallas Stars Comeback against Vegas
Stars Recall Mavrik Bourque While Hoping to Forget Games 1 and 2
Game 2 WCQF AfterThoughts: Losing the Plot
Peter DeBoer and Poise Versus Strategy
Game 1 WCQF AfterThoughts: Playoff Games Mean Something
Two Roads Diverge in a Golden Wood
Three Reasons the Stars Will Beat the Golden Knights This Time