Pre-Game: LA Kings

Biggest news for tonight? Richards is out, resting a groin injury. Don’t expect him to be out more than a couple weeks after last year, he’s been playing through it this season and decided to rest it for a while. This means that the weight of being the top line has officially shifted to Ribeiro/Morrow/Benn. When you have a second line that was effectively our first line the last two seasons, then you don’t really have anything to panic about. Considering the Richards line was shored up by the arrival of Neal, they will shift down and become an above average 2nd line with Eriksson and Neal on the wings and the new kid in the center.

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Something To Build On

Now, in a perfect world they will take this much needed luck and build on it. They will understand that they can win and if they try they will win. They will watch tape and realize that they did basically everything wrong again, but they have enough skill to still at least put points up. With the help of a terrible bounce (Robidas’ goal) and a mediocre goalie (Petersen goal) they won. So they will take this as a boost of confidence and then get back on the Crawford horse which they seemed to step off of for the length of the Boston and Chicago games.

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Don’t Panic, Yet.

I recommend letting the Stars play out the next 5 or so games before we all start preparing for the apocalypse. Try to take the Chicago game with a grain of salt, then start paying attention. Chicago has a way of making the Stars look like amateurs even on their good days, after all. Once we get that out of the way, start analyzing and either relaxing/combusting accordingly.

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The State of Things: 10/15/2009

So, what really is going on on the ice for the Stars? Well, they are dominating the opposition. Whether it’s the Canadian teams or Nashville, they have really shown their superiority in 5-on-5 hockey. Due to soft-goaltending and an abysmal penalty kill they have come out with a moderate, but less-than-special ratio. The good news is they can’t lose forever, in fact they have already defied the law of averages plenty of times this season. So when Nashville came back into town for Preds vs. Stars in Dallas: Reloaded – it was almost fate that the Stars took them apart like the rapture on ice (which is a lot like Disney on Ice but filled with anger and defensive breakdowns).

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Game One: Late Assessment

They deserved to win, easily – and that’s what I took away from it. We will see how they handle Calgary’s stacked lineup and Edmonton’s speed in the coming week.

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Stars over Avs, 3-2

If you were at the game or have the stamina to sit through the horrid Avalanche commentator (they only had one tonight…) then you know that the Stars won because Richards, Erisksson and Neal are probably individually better than any of the Avalanche team, that is including their top players they decided to field tonight. Neal scored first off of his skate admitedly by accident, though the announcer would have you believe he was the luckiest person on earth when in actuality it was because he drove the net.

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The Stars Pre-season (Thus far) and NHL10.

Well, I guess there are a few things we can take away from the pre-season up until this point.

Ribeiro isn’t performing.  This equates to a already rusty Morrow not putting up points.  The question is, why?  Is Ribeiro just not yet back into the groove of things – or – is he clashing with the [...]

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To Date

While the TDSA blog has been dead as of late, it hasn’t been due to lack of inspiration. Here’s a list of notable happenings.

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The State of Things: 7/9/09

A lot has happened in the last week or so after a depressing start to the free agent era off-season. But now we see a few acquisitions and even more talk of moves and the looming presence of even now – some unsigned free agents of our own. So what does this all mean? Are all of the anger/depression driven rants from fellow Stars fans merited? Is Daley terrible? IsAuld good enough? Is Neiuwendyk the worst GM ever? Is Richards going to New York?

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Skrastins Speaks

The word is the key to winning the veteran defenseman over was the length of the contract.  Not only was Atlanta not willing to give him more than a year but neither were the other contenders – so now he’s a Star.  It makes sense for a guy his age with a family to look [...]

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