Prospective Texas Stars Update
Andrew’s Dallas Stars page has updates on the players in college, Europe, and in the juniors, some of which may be Texas Stars next season.
Texas Stars Prequel
Andrew’s Dallas Stars page (the most awesome resource for the Dallas Stars and their minor league system’s news) has a link up today to an article on SI.com documenting the trials and tribulations of the players who would have been our Texas Stars this season, if there were a Texas Stars this season.
Because of the lack of an AHL-affiliate team this year, all of the Dallas Stars’ prospects are spread out among a number of teams throughout North America. All that comes to an end this fall when the prospects start playing at the Cedar Park Center, and many of us can’t wait.
If this Doesn’t Get You Excited for Minor League Hockey…
When the game ended, the real fun began. The Flint Journal reports the goaltenders for the Flint Generals and Port Huron Icehawks started having words while heading to the locker rooms after the Icehawks posted 7 goals in their victory over Generals goaltender Chad Alban.
Officials broke up the two. And then Alban got punched in the face by a security guard.
In the hockey tradition, Alban refused to press charges against the security guard. The guard is currently negotiating with the Icehawks to strap on skates and put on the foil before the teams re-match next Saturday.
Go Texas Stars. Hope the hiring goes smoothly over at the Cedar Park Center.
What’s the Goaltending Future of the Texas Stars?
Seeing the new photos of the Cedar Park Center being built has us all tingly for hockey in Central Texas. So we started surfing around to find information on the players expected to be on the team next season to see if we can find out what we’re in store for. An invaluable resource should be Andrew’s Dallas Stars Page, a blog about the NHL stars where he weekly recaps what is up with the team’s prospects. Props to Andrew and Mark for collecting the info us future Texas Stars fans will need in the drought prior to next fall.
#1 Goalie prospect Matt Climie, if not playing in the NHL next season (or more appropriately, sitting around waiting for a first string Goalie to get injured) should be in Cedar Park next year. He got his first shutout of the season Sunday backing the Idaho Steelheads against the Alaska Aces and is on a bit of a roll lately, getting his record above .500, his GAA to 2.78, and his Save % is now at .900. Quite respectable and an improvement over his first few starts of the season.
Also, keep your eyes peeled for 6 foot 5 Goalie Tyler Beskorowany, currently playing in the OHL. The dude is on the back end of a nightly shooting gallery in Owen Sound (wherever the hell that is. sounds cold.). HockeysFuture.com has him as the Dallas Stars’ #2 junior prospect.
There will be much to be excited about next season for the Texas Stars. Goaltender Matt Climie should be a big part of that excitement. Besides, the dude ought to be excited about getting the hell out of Idaho.
It’s Finally Cold Outside, so Texas Stars Build Indoors
Oooh… the excitement. We can hardly wait for the Texas Stars to begin putting on the foil.
The Texas Stars are the Dallas Stars’ AHL affiliate starting their inaugural season in Cedar Park at a brand new stadium built primarily to keep them happy and to keep those pesky, chocolate-lovin Hershey Bears on the receiving end of the checks and the short end of the sticks (is spearing legal in the AHL yet?).
Said stadium is being built and www.TexasStarsHockey.com has the evidence. Check out the new photos by clicking here. Looks ready to me. Let’s drop the puck!
While the stadium is built, The Texas Testosterone Festival humbly makes the following suggestions:
1. Visitors bench should be 6 inches shorter than the Home bench. Visitors bench should also be 3 inches closer to the boards.
2. Visitors locker room should have a ceiling height of 5 foot 10 inches.
3. Visitors toilets should be in a permanent state of “to be installed soon.”
4. All cheap seats should include individual beer kegs.
5. All French-Canadien player names should include pronunications on jerseys, scoreboards, and game programs for the benefit of us types from more Southern regions.
6. Moment of silence should be held for one random opposing player from the previous home game prior to each game. No explanations. That will scare the hell out the team we’re about to play.
7. Random spectator gets one minute of ice time when the Stars are up by 5 or more goals.
8. Make that 3 or more goals. The Stars can keep a lead.
9. All references to Mike Modano should be held with a divine-like reverence including extremely oversized murals, Greek-like statues, and daily moment of prayer for him to be temporarily demoted to the Texas Stars to rehab a ridiculously minor injury.
10. The Hershey Bears should be held with an irrational contempt, blood-spitting rage, and unsportsmanlike disdain that is both frightening to children and bewildering to the Bears.
That would be fun.
