Steve Yzerman shocked the hockey world when he stepped down as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning in Sep. 2018. He was the GM and vice president of the Lightning since 2010 and had been one of the most successful GMs in recent memory. Explore everything hockey with THW’s Hockeypedia pages. For many of
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For any franchise, the hope at the start of the season is that you will be buying for a playoff run at the trade deadline, not selling off beloved players for future assets. Sometimes things go wrong, though, and how a general manager handles a trade deadline can help them turn a rebuild into a
In this edition of Stars’ News & Rumors, Dallas fails to hit a franchise milestone, Ben Bishop plays his first game in 465 days, and an illness continues to find its way around the dressing room. Stars Fall Short of Milestone…Again Dallas tied the franchise-record winning streak at seven games with their 4-1 win over
If there is one thing that has devastated the Dallas Stars over the past two seasons, it is injuries. After their incredible run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2020, the team released a massive list of injuries that occurred before or during the playoffs. While all teams battle through injuries in the postseason, this
On Wednesday afternoon, Dallas Stars’ general manager Jim Nill announced that Alexander Radulov and Ben Bishop would miss the remainder of the season. The announcement just adds to the many setbacks this Stars team has faced this season. So what does this mean for the team going forward? Offensive Depth Taking a Hit Without Radulov
At the start of the 2010s, the Tampa Bay Lightning were a franchise mired with poor asset management. In recent years, a series of trades that were meant to shed veteran players for younger prospects backfired, leaving the team with a weak prospect pool and a lack of on-the-ice talent. Since the start of the
The COVID-19 pandemic is still sweeping the nation, which has resulted in no details of the 2020-21 NHL season becoming set in stone. Speculation runs rampant in the discussions that feature a wildly different season, but, for the Dallas Stars, it needs to be business as usual. With talks of division realignments, hub cities, and
There is no worse feeling than watching a goalie stay down after an opposing player crashes the net. So much of a championship calibre team relies on the goalie. The key saves, the steady confidence, and the knowledge that the offense can take the odd risk because their goalie will shut the door if things
The Dallas Stars played their first round-robin playoff game against the Vegas Golden Knights to determine the seeding amongst the top 4 teams in the West. The game didn’t start out well with goaltender Ben Bishop giving up a fluky goal to Chandler Stephenson on the first shot of the game. Golden Knights forward Chandler
The Ottawa Senators have made their fair share of trades throughout their history. Some of those moves have seen them come out on top, but others have fans wondering what just happened. As with any NHL team, the return an organization can get for a particular player or pick can vary a great deal. Are
Thursday gave us a full schedule across the National Hockey League and it was a very good night for goaltenders. Some of the top performances included a pair of shutouts and a rare goalie goal! Rinne Scores Versus Blackhawks The Nashville Predators were in Chicago last night to take on the Blackhawks in a big
DALLAS — Joe Pavelski and Alexander Radulov scored in a shootout, Ben Bishop stopped 41 shots and the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 Saturday night. Pavelski opened the shootout by scoring on Philipp Grubauer, and Bishop followed with two saves. Radulov bested Grubauer with a low shot to end it. Grubauer stopped 38
It seems like just yesterday I was writing about the Dallas Stars’ recent success that saw them go on a 7-1 run. After last night’s 4-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights, the Stars are now 14-1-1 in their last 16 games and winners of a franchise record-tying seven straight. No team has gained more
Today in THW’s goalie news, we wish happy birthday to a nineties great, take a look at Ben Bishop’s wild night, and see what one player got in exchange for his sweater number. Happy Birthday, Tugger Few goalies worked as hard or traveled as many miles in the 1990s as the Scarborough, Ontario native who
DALLAS — Johnny Gaudreau put a backhand past Dallas goalie Ben Bishop in a shootout and the Calgary Flames beat the Stars 3-2 on Thursday night. Tyler Seguin was the only one of three Stars who beat Calgary goalie David Rittich in the shootout. It was tied 1-1, with Sean Monahan beating Bishop before Gaudreau
At the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, former Minnesota Wild general manager Paul Fenton stirred up some controversy when he stated that the “…thing I liked is when guys came up to our table and they were taller than me.” It was a strange statement that seemed to fit better in a decade long past, rather