Stars at Blackhawks 10/31/08

Dallas 2, Chicago 5
See?  This is why I didn’t want to get my hopes up about the Wild game.  (I did, but I didn’t want to.)
I skipped the recap of that game, but Myra has a good one over on the great Laughs 2 Loud. It was a fun game and everything looked fixed. [...]

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Stars vs. Capitals 10/25/08

Dallas 5, Washington 6, OT
Back in 2002, the Stars missed the playoffs for the first and only time since I became a fan. The reason I mention this is because I’m getting a creepy feeling about this team. I’m not getting a feeling that they’ll miss the playoffs, but I am getting a [...]

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Stars at Islanders 10/23/08

Dallas 5, New York 3
Mike Ribeiro and Brenden Morrow missed each other. Tippett split them up for a few games. Being on new lines proved to them how great it was to be on their own line together and now that they’re back, they played like they never want to be split up [...]

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No touching!

Michael Peca is about to return from his suspension for abuse of an official. They reduced his original suspension from ten games to five, but he isn’t grateful.
He doesn’t seem to get it. His defense is yeah, I grabbed his arm, but it wasn’t like I hit him. The rule is YOU [...]

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Stars at Devils 10/22/08

Dallas 0, New Jersey 5
I dunno. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to think and I don’t know what to say.
Marty Turco is really making me nervous. The sophomore-slump potential of three of our defensemen is starting to worry me. And Sean Avery is showing me nothing. [...]

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Stars at Rangers 10/20/08

Dallas 2, New York 1
That was a much better game. They looked much better all around. Turco may have snapped out of his funk.
We can’t tell after one game, but he does tend to snap out funks, rather than climb out of them. Like Razor said, maybe he saw that he was last [...]

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Various embarrassing losses.

Dallas 1, St. Louis 6
Dallas 4, Colorado 5
If it weren’t for the fact that Pookie and Schnookie are here to entertain me, I’d be inconsolable about the way things are going right now. But since they are here, and we’re having a ton of fun, including hanging out during and after Saturday’s game with [...]

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Stars vs. Predators 10/15/08

Dallas 6, Nashville 4
What a game. I imagine Fabian Brunnstrom is saying the same thing to himself. Over and over for hours and hours.
The new guy looked pretty good, didn’t he? I was thrilled that he got his first NHL goal in his first NHL game. We’ve had a rash of [...]

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This is what we’re talking about.

We hockey fans have long asserted that one way to bring fans to hockey is to highlight the players in engaging ways.
There’s a wrong way to do it.

This series of commercials is so horrifying, I don’t even know how it managed to see the light of day. The basic idea, [...]

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Stars at Predators 10/11/08

(AP Photo/Bill Waugh)

Dallas 1, Nashville 3
Sean Avery, the guy we brought in to agitate and play on the edge and stir things up, got two game misconducts. In the second game of the season. He’s on pace for 82 game misconducts. Good job.
Seriously, though. He can’t have any more all season [...]

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