NEW YORK - Dallas Stars goaltender Kari Lehtonen, Detroit Red Wings right wing Gustav Nyquist and Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Andrej Sekera have been named the NHL's "Three Stars" for the week ending Jan. 26. FIRST STAR – KARI LEHTONEN, G, D......
Ryan Dadoun touts four defensemen in this week's instalment of Waiver Wired....
After a horrendous start to the month, the Dallas Stars are dominating on both ends of the ice. The Stars go for a season-high fourth consecutive win Monday night as they close their regular-season series against the visiting Colorado Avalanche. While Dallas (24-20-8) went 1-8-1 to open the new year, it's since won three straight by a combined 14-1 score. The Stars have gone 5 for 12 on the power play...
DALLAS -- After starting the week with a loss in Nashville, the Dallas Stars continued their offensive surge with a 3-0 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins before a sellout crowd on Saturday at American Airlines Center. Dallas (24-20-8), which beat the Minnesota Wild 4-0 on Tuesday and the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-1 on Thursday, received goals from defenseman Sergei Gonchar, center and captain Jamie Benn...
In a week the Dallas Stars began with a 4-1 loss at Nashville on Monday, they concluded the week with an impressive 3-0 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins before a sellout crowd on Saturday at American Airlines Center. Dallas (24-20-8), which beat the Minnesota Wild 4-0 on Tuesday and the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-1 on Thursday, received goals from defenseman Sergei Gonchar, center and captain Jamie Benn...
latest win was their best this season. Lehtonen made 24 saves for his second shutout in three games to lead the Stars to a 3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. ''This one against a highly skilled team and taking care of special teams probably knocks the other two down a little bit.'' Sergei Gonchar, Jamie Benn and Rich Peverley had Dallas...
Best player in the game held off the score sheet....
s second goal to extend his points streak to 10 games. Victor Hedman assisted on all three Johnson goals. No. 2 Star: Jarome Iginla, Boston Bruins Iginla is enjoying his first season in Beantown and Saturday he recorded a four-point afternoon during a 6-1 rout of the Philadelphia Flyers. Zdeno Chara also scored twice and became the eighth Bruin this season to reach double-digit goals. Tuukka Rask made...
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t frustrating enough, the Dallas arena crew took to the Jumbotron to remind everyone in attendance that, while the Leafs trailed the game 3-1, they led 1-0 in entitled, snot-nosed, pop star fans that got arrested that day. Via @damnitjason : That is cruel and unusual. This might be more embarrassing than the John Ferguson Jr. era. Bieber, we remind you, was arrested in Miami Beach and charged with...
DALLAS -- The January slump is officially over for the Dallas Stars. Just two nights after blanking the Minnesota Wild 4-0, Dallas blitzed the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-1 at American Airlines Center, ending Toronto's six-game winning streak. After leading 2-1 after one period, Dallas (23-20-8) erupted for four goals in the second period to lead by four goals after 40 minutes of play. Stars center and captain...
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re playing with a lead, it's a lot easier to make the stops you have to," said Kuemper, now 5-2-0 since being recalled from the Wild...
s NHL. And with a 7-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday at American Airlines Center, Dallas has now won two straight after starting January 1-8-1. Dallas, who also beat the Minnesota Wild 4-0 on Tuesday night in the start of a five-game homestand, ended Toronto...
DALLAS (AP) -- Valeri Nichushkin was in the right place at the right time - twice - on Thursday night....
WILMINGTON, Mass. The Bruins were very conscious in their method of easing Loui Eriksson back into the lineup after coming back from his second concussion, and that re-acclamation continues just five games into his comeback. Eriksson assisted on Carl Soderbergs game-winner in his first game back against the San Jose Sharks, but has gone scoreless in the next four games while building some chemistry...
Jan 23 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Thursday's National Hockey League games. - - - Wild 2, Blackhawks 1 The Minnesota Wild got just enough offense via first period goals by right winger Jason Pominville and left winger Matt Cooke to outlast the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1. Minnesota goaltender Darcy Kuemper, making his fifth consecutive start, stopped 33 shots as the Wild improved to 8-3-0 in their...
Anze Kopitar and Ben Lovejoy pretend to be puppies for some reason. No. 1 Star: Jamie Benn, Dallas Stars Benn was nigh unstoppable for the Stars versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. He opened the scoring early in the first with this quick wrester: And then he helped set up three others -- two by Valeri Nichushkin -- for a four-point night as the Stars walloped the Leafs 7-1 , ending Toronto's winning streak...
Michael Finewax reports that Nathan Horton is a star in Columbus as they are on an eight game winning streak....
COMMENTARY At the beginning of the New Year, it looked like Mike Yeo was going to be relieved of his duties as head coach of the Minnesota Wild. The team had lost six-straight games, including losses to the New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Winnipeg Jets, and New York Islanders, and it had gotten to the point where Yeo was no longer speaking to his team any more. It is one thing for a coach give...