Stars Rally To Beat Wild 5-2, Remain Unbeaten In Preseason | DLLS STARS POSTGAME
your balls, butt cracks, and grundles. That’s great. I was not ready for that one. I was expecting the one that we’ve been hearing lately and Ryan caught us all off guard. That’s the way to start the postgame show. Misdirection. Nice little audible. Maybe a playaction pass. Well, if you’re the Cardinals, don’t try that. They got sacked on a flee flicker. Doesn’t matter. Stars are three and0 in preseason. Does it matter? Probably not. Postgame show starts right now. I didn’t hear [Music] [Music] [Music] This is the DLS Stars postgame show on a Thursday night after Dallas beat the Minnesota Wild by a score of 5 to2 alongside Craig Lewig, Sam Nestler, And somewhere unknown, probably Michigan. Sean Shapiro. I’m Owen Newkerk. Ryan Faers is our producer tonight. And before we get into all the action, don’t forget that September is Big Brothers Big Sisters Month here at DLLS. This week, we are encouraging everyone who can do it to sign up to be a big. 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Are you having twice the fun or twice the I wish it was the regular season remorse? Well, there’s always twice I wish it was the regular season remorse. That doesn’t matter whether played or not. But no, I enjoyed both games tonight. Watched the this one here in Detroit. Started about an hour earlier. So, I was able to uh watch this one during the intermissions and then I sat and watched the third period on a slight delay just to kind of catch up, but was able to watch this one all the way through. um enjoyable enjoyable hockey evening and uh yeah I mean this game in for the Dallas Minnesota game this was a game that was supposed to go the way other preseason games are supposed to go and so good for the stars on winning the game where it’s they’re supposed to be scheduled losses right I mean three and 0 is great luds we talked about this the other night doesn’t mean anything as far as real standings because it doesn’t count Winning’s nice. Guys enjoy it. It’s fun, especially the participants. But we talked about main takeaways are different in the preseason because it’s more about individuals than it is about the collective team play. Nice to see effort. Nice to see results, but it’s about which players stand out for the guys trying desperately to make a lineup spot get a job. Yeah. And you know, I I I see a little bit of that. I mean, what stuck out to me is I I I liked Lean Bishell tonight, you know, I like Petravic tonight. They they those two led the minutes played for the team and, you know, and it was nice to see Wyatt, you know, do what he did. So, um, and I think Borc has continued. So, so I’m not naming any guys that are looking to make the lineups, but those are the guys that not not that I want to see, but but I when I see Wyatt step out there in the way that he played tonight and Wyatt still has a couple little things in coverage wise and things like that in his own zone, but that’s man, he’s only 22 years old, so that’s going to come or 23, whatever he is. Um, so you know, there and what you did see is you saw some coverage mistakes, but a lot of that was more by younger guys, but again, that that’s part of the process. Sean, who stood out to you tonight as obviously as you try to juggle two different games. Was there a player or two or three or four or whatever that that dominates your story lines of tonight’s game? Well, for me, the big one, and it just goes back to you and I were texting during the first intermission. Um, and I hopefully that people I’m I’m sure someone can see our text messages out in the world and just hopefully it’s not the wrong people. But we you and I were texting about Maverick and I kind of in the in the first period I kind of wanted a little bit more from him in the first period kind of watching that game and I’m coming into this with the kind of the backdrop in my mind of Jaime Ben. We know Jaime Ben’s going to be out for until for at least four weeks, probably longer. Um, and this is a big opportunity for Maverick Bork to show, hey, I’m going to go and take that top six winger spot. Maybe it’s on the left, maybe it’s on the right. He can play wherever. You guys did a great interview with him where he talked about that before. And um, I thought his game from about five minutes into the second period on was really dominant and he really took an he took he made an impression on me where he probably showed to the coaching staff, hey, we can look at Maverick in a various collection of top six roles. He can play there. and I know they’ve wanted him to show that. So for me, that’s the big one from a showing what you can do, taking the next step type deal. And then the other one is I to go back to LZ’s point on Petravic and and and Bishel, it’s a it’s big for those guys to be the, for lack of a better word, the the control guys, right? Because that’s what they’re going to have to do in a 10 to 12, 14 minute role in the regular season. And so to see them do that where they’re getting the big minutes tonight when you’re playing with some other stuff. Um you’re seeing kind of Casey to Smith deal with a bunch of the chaos of bad defending from young guys. Those two kind of being able to settle things down when they were out there. That’s a big one for me. Sean, you know, the other guy I left out and I shouldn’t have Bastion. You know, and I think he’s doing he’s doing what he’s supposed to do. I mean, him and Bishel had four hits a piece tonight. I think bashing that for but but again every time you see him out there there the the intent is there. He understands what he’s there for and his role and um I think it’s nice to see and I think he’s making a good first uh impression here. Sam, you’ve seen Bash play in New Jersey. Is he doing exactly what you expect him to do? I know it’s a preseason game, but this was a more NHL lineup that for Minnesota than we’ve seen from the first two games, either St. Louis or Minnesota in the two games in Dallas. This was at least 50% or more NHL roster. Yeah. And he he’s I think Les has said it a bunch. I didn’t hear if he just said it there, but he he knows what his role is. He knows the type of player he is and he does that. He doesn’t try to do too much. He has some underrated skill in hands that he can when the puck gets around the net that he can put it uh put it away. But he he just bowls himself around, right? You watch him go to the net and it’s not like he’s making these dangles and skilled plays. He’s just forcing his way to the crease and that is a skill in itself in this league and this team needs it. So I’ I’ve loved what I’ve seen from him so far. Go back to the the comment that Pete Dbor made, you know, halfway through the season in January. Wanted to be bigger along the wall. Yeah, we need to be heavier on the walls, you know, and I I don’t know if he meant bigger and have, you know, some some goals in you or not or if he just meant bigger, but that’s and maybe Jim heard that. You know what I mean? So they go out and find him. So we’ll see where that all goes. Sean, we spent a a pretty large portion of our pregame show talking about Jaime Ben’s injury, the surgery, and the ramifications of it. Now, of course, we talked about the salary cap and what that could mean as far as having a little extra space probably carrying over next year anyway because I don’t see the Stars ending up coming in under by enough to use their performance bonuses. You never know. But one of the big talking points was who fills the void while he’s gone and particularly who makes the opening night roster. And of course, we talked about some of the guys already entrenched in the NHL lineup, but maybe moving up like a Sam Steel or Maverick Bourc maybe getting up higher in the lineup or maybe one of the guys on the fourth line like an Oscar Beck, a Nate Nathan Bastion or a Colin Blackwell. And of course, the other option is somebody from the AHL group or a PTO like Adam Ernie getting a contract, Justin Ritzovian maybe working his way up or an R2 Huru. Sam mentioned Cole Lind. Did anybody in tonight’s game, granted it’s one game, it’s a preseason game, but did anybody in your mind stand out as that’s the guy that fills that void? You know, maybe it’s Maverick Bourke looks like the guy that maybe can move up. Then who takes his spot? How does that all shake out in your mind after tonight? Well, I don’t think anyone won a job tonight. I think Justin Ritz Kovian helped his case tonight. I think there’s kind of with with how this team’s going to play playing with some depth in the lineup, you’re going to need someone who can show a little bit of that overall game and then find like Ritz Kovian did. Um I think there’s also so it Ernie was I thought Ernie was decent again. He’s he’s continued to do that. So, I I don’t think any I I wouldn’t feel fair judging anyone winning a spot off tonight’s game, but I I do think those two in particular um I didn’t think Huru was bad in any case, but it’s he wasn’t really I don’t have many I don’t have many notes on him. I got way more notes about Adam Ernie and and what uh Ritz Kovian did. So, um th those two for me and then just kind of the other one just intriguing kind of to connect back to a prior conversation here about Nathan Bastion. I think Nathan Bastion did a really good job and the Stars never want to be in a spot where Nathan Bastion is playing a quote unquote offensive role, top top nine, top six role, whatever. with this lineup for him to go out and lead the team in shots on goal to when he was on the ice they have a 146 edge in shot opportunities like Nathan Bastion that to me is a big strength of Nathan Bastion showing something to the coaches where some point there’s going to be penalty trouble there’s going to be something there’s going to be where he’s going to be able to earn maybe that five couple four to five shifts higher in the lineup when something weird happens and I thought that that was a big one for me on on Bastion tonight but to making this team. I I mean, I think Adam Ernie has earned himself an NHL contract. I don’t know if that’s with Dallas. I want to be clear on that. Adam Ernie has won himself an NHL deal, I think, somewhere. But you got to remember with the PTO, he can sign with anyone. And so, if you’re Adam Ernie, I think right now, and if you’re Adam Ernie’s agent, you’re you’re kind of a talking to Jim about, hey, do we have a potential deal here? And what could that look like? Where do you see him in the depth chart? or you’re starting to kind of show that around to the rest of the league and say, “Hey, this is a veteran guy you could come in, play third, fourth line on a on a on a on another team and and outplay someone.” So, I think Ernie’s done that. I just I’m fascinated if Ernie sees his best opportunity in Dallas or if another team will give it to him because he does not have to sign with Dallas. He can sign with any team. Hey, two things, Sean, because I was actually going to ask you about Ernie. Uh, first one, can you explain how that works with the PTO? So, if he’s on a PTO with Dallas, how does it work if he signs with Dallas and how does it work if he signs somewhere else? Yeah. I mean, he’s basically a PTO is it’s a tryyout contract. And so, everything is superseded by an NHL deal. So, he would um there’s an outlaw PTO whether he signs it with Dallas or another team that that PTO is immediately canled and he gets the in the NH in the entry level, sorry, the the NHL standard contract would start right away. So, um, there’s maybe a bit of if you’re Ernie, there’s probably a bit there might be a little bit of loyalty at play. Hey, this is the team that gave me the opportunity, but at the end of the day, you also have to go through the depth chart and look at things and decide, am I going to is Dallas really going to be the team that’s going to give me the minutes? Maybe it is, maybe, maybe it’s not, but I that’s kind of how that that all shakes out. Um, yeah, and in the PTO, you can’t play NHL games really. You can’t play NHL regular season games on a PTO. the Stars will have to make decision on Ernie by October 7th, 8th, 9th themselves anyway. Um, and I think they’re at the spot where Ernie is kind of with his play is forcing them to make it a little bit sooner, which is good for his bottom line and job security this year somewhere in the NHL. Yeah. So, I want to ask L a question about that. Leds, if you’re Adam Ernie right now and you’re feeling good after hip surgery and looking like you’re a guy that’s played in the league before, do you sign if you get an offer from Dallas? Yes. Why? Well, I I because I think this is a team that’s got an opportunity to to go a little bit further than maybe some of his other opportunities. So, and and again, is this his third? No. Second game. Third game. Did he play all three? He’s played all three so far. Y and it and most of his trials. And so, what what it’s saying, if I’m him, it’s like they’re giving me a chance. Yes. They’re they’re allowing me to earn a spot on this team. So, um, and and to me, I guess if I’m talking with my agent, my agent should say, you know, I I think that they’re seriously looking at you. And I don’t know, they they like what they see cuz they keep giving you a chance. They’re not giving him a chance because he had a poor game and let’s see if he can get better next game. I think they’re seeing consistency in in what he does. Do you think that there’s any reason why he might look at another offer just because Dallas is to be in the to be in a top 12 spot. That’s what I mean. Yes. Like right now it kind of looks like he might be a 13th forward until Jamie Ben’s healthy and then he wouldn’t have that position. Somebody else could always get hurt. But then that get but if he finds a spot and let’s say Jaime’s out for 15 to 20 games just that gives him an opportunity to to maybe push somebody else out of That’s a great point. Yep. And I there’s a couple guys that I could see the way you know pucks go in the net for him a couple times. I mean there’s a couple guys down there like on the fourth line that don’t put the puck in the net very much and he seems to bring a little bit more. I notice him more around the offensive zone. What about Bastian? Does he look like a similar player to Mason Marshman? Maybe not as much of the offensive creativity, but the could he even in a a limited role go up and play next to a Duchane and Sean forch check and crash the net a little bit or I mean I I’m not saying he’s Marchment, right? But can he be like a Marchment Light? I don’t see that right now. I Marchman’s got more Yes. more to it, right? He’s got more upside offensively and he can put the puck in the net, things like that. I don’t think you’re gonna see Bastion there, but but I still think he’s penciled in in the the bottom, you know, the bottom four, three, three or four. I think that there’s a reason why Jim Nil signed him that he clearly is ahead of the younger guys trying to break through, right? And he’s said all the right things. He understands that he may be out of the lineup for three, four games and and I’m cool with that. I get that. And so I think it’s always nice to have a guy like that that understands his role. And he’s the kind of guy that will be walking in and out of the room, in and out of practices, not being with his chin dragging on the ground because he understands that because we’ve seen guys like that before that are disappointed, but they show it. It’s okay to be disappointed. Matter of fact, you should be, but but don’t show it. Be a good teammate. Yeah. Speaking of random thought, Mason Marchman had his first child today. Oh, congratulations to Mason and his wife. That’s exciting. And of course, uh, still very much liked around the room in Dallas. Up next, let’s break it down. Sean’s favorite part. Recap of a preseason game here on the DLS Stars postgame show. No, no. First, I get to talk. You do? Yeah. All right. 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Bastion had a bunch of chances, but they were just normal scoring chances. Still fine. And then at the end of the period, Marco Rossi scored two goals in 10 seconds. What the heck happened there? Yeah. Well, coverage, you know, I mean, it kind of breaks down to that. And you know, we’ve got the first look and you know, Leon Leon Bishell here, you know, being his reach and his size and everything else, he can stay above the goal line here. I I think what what Leon does is he takes a step below the goal line. When you do that, now the net comes back into play when you want to come out forward behind the net, wants to come out the other side. Bishel ends up coming out a little bit late and by the time he’s out there, you know, he can’t get the stick back and can’t get in the shooting lane. I also thought, this is the only time I’m going to give Wyatt a hard time tonight because he had a pretty good game, but I thought Wyatt could have helped a little bit here, but I I I think Bishop will learn from this kind of thing. And with his reach and everything like that, he can he could get that guy behind the net if he stays above the goal line, then he can always recover. Let me ask you a followup, Ryan. Can you go through that sequence again about Adam Ernie? I I know Ernie had a fine game, but he’s the one that’s got Marco Rossi as they go to the net over in the left wing corner. They’re going towards the crease along the goal line extended and then he leaves him to try to help Matt Baldy at the at the post and and Rossy’s the one that ends up with a little space able to pull that and score. If if Ernie stays with him, does that prevent a goal? It does, but what you don’t see on this and you can see right here the tail end of this, this was a a really nice nice play here by Rossy. I mean, he pulls this puck off of the heel of his skate and gets it out away from and to the back of him. But this setup right here, you see five guys in the picture right around the net. It looks great. If you if you want if you want. Now, unfortunately, you know, everybody’s kind of facing the same way. But the point is, if you go back to last year in the playoffs against Edmonton, how many times did I stop the video and showed this very same look, except it wasn’t the Dallas Stars jersey. It was the Oilers. So, we’re seeing what Glenn Gullixson is trying to do. And Sam, what was he yelling today and yesterday? Yeah, today. I actually asked him about it today. He said he smiled about it. He was screaming they every time they’d do something in the defensive zone and they would give up a pass across the seam or in the slot, he would say, “Blow the whistle and scream. If they want to play on the outside, let them Blood’s word play on the outside.” Oh, did you want me to? And no. And I I even said to him, I said, “With a couple extra words in there.” And he he laughed. But I think that it’s he’s making it a point at every practice to understand that this is what we need to protect first. We’re building a structure so that that comes first, then the little things come. He also talked about today we’re not preparing for the one play a guy’s going to make when someone splits two guys and makes a great we’re building a structure and a foundation for the other nine times out of 10. And I really like that. And when he’s saying, you know, if they want to play out there, let’s let them play out there. Bottom line is you’re going to have to come through three or four or five of us to get to our goalender. So that’s what he’s trying to stress there. And it’ll eventually it’s not like you’re going to go into a shell. Back in the day, you know, you get a twogoal lead and everybody call it going into a shell and everybody just kind of sit in front of the net and, you know, do that. That’s not what he’s trying to do. He’s just trying to make it more difficult to get in there and and for bodies to get in there, too. I’m going to echo what Lut says, Sean, with a soccer reference because it’s his favorite thing to do is that when they have the ball, the opponent, the soccer players kind of like to pack it into on the outside over on the wings and you have your defense back, you just yell contain. Just keep them out there. They’re not dangerous. It’s when the defender lunges and loses and the guy gets inside and starts going towards your goal that he becomes dangerous. And it’s the same thing in hockey where keep him outside. What’s he going to do over there? As soon as you get beat, now he’s in a more dangerous scoring position. Yeah. You think about it like you’re going to be in the places they want to get to. Yes. And you start pulling yourself out. You open up. It’s easier for them to get to where they want to be. Look at that, Sean. I made a soccer reference. He appreciated it and didn’t roll his eyes. No, I did. I had a comment. You did. You didn’t hear me. Sam heard me. That was it, though. Go ahead, Sean. You’re You’re chomping at the bit. No. Can we Can we go back to the middle frame of that of the of the kind of breakdown on that one? Ryan, can we go back to the middle uh of that? Uh, sorry. the the one maybe the other one. Go back. The one where you That one. Okay. I want you I want everyone here to look at Casey D Smith’s head position here. The puck is behind back behind his right foot. He’s looking over his left shoulder. This is one of those weird plays where this is why goalies need preseason games. This is one of those plays where we talk about why I know a lot of NHL goalies say they want two and a half because these are the plays as a goalie you don’t really work on in practice. There’s nothing to replicate. there’s not much to replicate the down low behind the net chaos in practice um in training camp. And so this is the play that I this is a play if we’re looking if we see this image of Casey De Smith in the regular season. There’s a problem because this is this is pretty poor tracking on how things went especially when he sees where Liam Bishell is on that post there. But these are the things you need to get out of your system in the preseason. You need to work through that. You need to make some mistakes on it. Get kind of up to game speed. It’s one of the spots why often times when the NHL season starts, we see goal scoring a really high kind of start to the season because it is easy as a shooter, it is easier to get up to speed than it is as a goalender. And so this I I love seeing this type of mistake from Casey to Smith in this game. Not because I want to see Casey Smith make a mistake, but from the level of you’re getting this out of the way. Even the next play, real broken play, right? We’re going to talk about the next goal soon here. 10 seconds later, he lets up another one on a broken play. Not his fault at all. But those two happen and then he locked everything down the rest of the way. You want to get those things out of the way. Now, this is what preseason exhibition is about. And so for Casey to Smith and it gives it gives the stars, goalie coach Jeff Reese and Casey Smith a great opportunity to look at that. Okay. Hey, why is your head looking back this way on this play? Why why are you here as opposed to being over here? Is it is it a read? Is it a footwork? Where where for you is the mistake on that spot? and they get to go through that and kind of look through this and and this is what preseason should be for a goalie. So, I know it’s a goal against, but it’s one of those plays where I look at it and you’re like, “Okay, this is how you’re going to get better and and be better to dialed in for Casey just missed probably first start like October 14th, 15th or whatever because we know Jake’s going to play Winnipeg.” So, um something like that. So, Sean, I quick question for you since I love the the whole goalie concept for lacrosse. It was one of the hardest things for me to learn. We got a bing bong. We got to jump in because we we have a $50 bing bong. I can’t read it. So Tio writes Sam Hatrick tonight. Over there, too. I can’t see it either. Can we make that a little bit bigger? That the whole screen. All right. You ready for the sluds? Tio writes Sam Hatrick tonight. Spilled ranch and ice on his shirt. Spilled his entire drink on the carpet and drew on himself with Owen’s pen. But the man he’s But but the man he’s been in on all camp. Ritzcoian had a a game. Second most impact behind Wyatt on the the NHL game score impact card. How does he know all this? Some good, some bad. All of it. He’s an open book. That wasn’t me. That was the DLS stars page. Oh, was it? I thought it was you. That wasn’t me. Ah, I was about to say, how did know how how did they know about the spillage? Like, is the call coming from in the house? Like, what’s going Well, the uh the ice was during this the show, so and there’s ranch on my shirt. But Sean, anyway, back to the show here. So, for for me, I play lacrosse. Thank you for the super chat. I played lacrosse goalie and then obviously hockey goalie until like high school. So, that was really hard for me because it was totally different how you play it in lacrosse. If the ball’s behind the net, you’re facing the ball and you’re the play’s behind you, right? So, can you explain as a goalie how you go about processing that play right there? Yeah. And it’s it’s it’s it’s interesting because there’s especially it’s become you have to be quicker on it now, right? NHL players as the game has evolved, there’s more and more of the the quick the quick jam play that is not slow developing. And so as a goalie, it’s kind of use this you use kind of use the center of your body as kind of a line, right? And so it is the spot where you’re you want to be able to track the you want to be able to both track the play behind the net and you also have to keep track of the chaos in front of you at the same time. And so you kind of it kind of creates this situation where you use center of the net. You kind of have this like line this invisible line in your head where you know where it is. And as the with with the puck behind you, if the if the puck is right behind your back, you’re basically committing one side and you’re basically going to pick a post almost where you’re going to be. And so in that situation where you have a defender like Lean Bishell kind of taking the left post for you. That’s where you’re going to go farther right post because you know you have your guy there and we obviously Leon is a big dude. It’s impossible for him to miss him there. So in that spot and this is one of those things they’ll talk about and look at the film. Casey De Smith is looking I am going to be a little bit farther to my right. I’m going to be kind of a little bit there. Probably not full RVH, reverse, vertical, horizontal for to use full terminology for people. Not full RVH over there, but giving myself that over there because I’m trusting Lean Bishop on that left post. And as a goalie, your spot there is you don’t need to lock eyes on the puck in that situation. you you trust that you trust that a you’ve got your defender there who’s going to help and you also need to be able to have the quick momentary like second eye glance forward to kind of pick up where Rossy comes into play. So it is a it’s it’s fielding it’s knowing that imaginary line and understanding where the biggest threat is. Another thing that can be big on this too is as a goalie and as the season as a season goes on, you get this book into your head, you’re going to know what guys tendencies are. A guy gets now preseason is tougher because it’s a lot of chaos. You have no idea who everyone is. It’s it’s a bunch of guys from the Iowa Heartlanders in the lineup too tonight, right? And so you kind of you’re going to look at kind of handedness. Okay, where is the guy down low? Where is his handiness? Where’s the threat? We know there’s not going to be a jam back in. There’s all this processing information that comes back to I need to basically as long as I have my baseline set then I can build on that. So I rambled a lot. I hope Sam I answered a question. No I was impressed he made an ECHL reference too. That’s what I wanted and I was thinking like I can get deeper. Your boy your boy Gretz uh I think he feasted on goalie. I’m pretty sure goalies used to turn around and face backwards. So how you would play this if if pull that up again Ryan. So what we would do like let for instance if this was two defenseman especially that are tied up on the postse right we would recognize we would well we wouldn’t recognize that but we would recognize that the guy behind the net if he’s left or right-handed. Yes. Right. So in this scenario what we would try to do regardless of which one it is but we would have a like for instance it’d be the right you’re looking at the picture left one would take a step towards him and that would get him to obviously pull and go towards the other post. That defenseman is then pulled back. Meaning you want to push him to his back end. Well, you would want to push him. But what? Yeah, ideally that’s what you want. We can recognize right or left, but we would always want to get that one defenseman that would take one step back there. Get him to pull the puck to the other side of the net, so to speak, behind it and then the other defenseman go, that first one to recover so you can jump on him. Yeah. You can’t get both of you hung up. Well, no. It’s about pushing him in, but you always wanted to push him out on his backand because if he comes out on his forehand, there’s a possibility of the wrap and things like that. So you kind of help your goalie out. 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Go to bbs.org/allcity for more information to sign up to become a big today. Thanks, Luds. I want to talk to you about the YouTube supporters. You always look like you’re a little bit caught off guard every time because it’s they’re just so they’re so different now. There’s so many other ones. Anyway, supporters club, true sicko level stuff. It is for the real ones. As you’re looking at our screen right here, you can see in the bottom right corner. I I can’t see them, but you probably can. There’s a bunch of little uh I emojis and things that you can add into the chat when you become a part of the supporters club. You get a awesome badge or tag, whatever we’re calling it, in the chat. It makes it pop and stand out when you do it. So, we can call your chat out. We can get to your questions first. You also get behind the scenes videos, which LS remembers. We got to shoot one of those today. First one was shot today. Does he remember it though? I don’t know. It was It was a fun time. Ryan was up there. He Ryan was working hard. The boys were maybe slacking a little bit, but it’s going to be good stuff because it’s all entertaining. So, join the supporters club. You get all the amazing stuff. Also, the more people that join, the more emojis and fun things that we’ll throw at you. So, yeah, there were there was a complaint the other night about not enough stars branded emojis for the supporters club. And I believe our boss who was asking if Luds was should be allowed to do an ad read and he just asked if Sam was drunk. I believe Ben said, “Yeah, Ben’s trolling us in the chat tonight.” See right there? I don’t know if you can read that, Sam, but it says, “Is Sam drunk? GM Ben?” No. Um, it’s those new drinks, Ben. It’s the new beverages. That’s what it is. The ones that uh those other ones without the alcohol. So, I believe Ben said if more people sign up to be to the supporters club, more emojis will be they can release more and create more. Maybe they’ll get a few more stars related ones. Maybe we’ll get a LSDs one where it’ll be like just the shin pad. I was just wondering if you guys were going to say we’re going to turn ourselves into emojis or something like that. Well, you could have a a shin pads. That’d be perfect. Oh, yeah. That’d be awesome, wouldn’t it? The ones that you uh would fit on the screen. The ones you refuse to give to the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yes, but maybe you could have a nice dinner if your shin pads ever made it to the Hall of Fame. I had a nice dinner dinner last year. Razer. All right, let’s get to the second goal because Led, I know you had a couple of screenshots you wanted to show on Marco’s goal. Well, the other thing that I I always have issues with is passing lanes and and I and I think that Dallas will and again eventually they’re going to get to this. Last year that was a bit of a problem. this one here and you got a you know you got a veteran out here and Petravic and and Wyatt but but again if if you you can see where there is a twoon-one developing and it really doesn’t help here’s Petravic he comes in the one thing Petro won’t do here is once he turns he never turns and looks to the guy coming at the net on on the far side on the right hand side here you know and he’s got his stick in in a passing lane that’s a good thing but then what’s highlighted here is Wyatt I hate picking on Wyatt tonight but this happens last here. Forwards have to keep their feet moving. Wyatt never takes another stride all the way to where this goal or this pass actually comes across the net. Pro doesn’t take the shooting or the passing lane away and he opens up the lane. But if Wyatt keeps on helping on the next screen, you’re going to see where where that puck is going to come across next. If Wyatt keeps on skating here, he picks that off. Pro again doesn’t take a look. So, both of these guys are kind of responsible for this. It’s a clear twoon-one. puck gets across and and Casey de Smith did this a few times tonight. Made some big timely saves. I know Marco Rossi scored the two goals. He scored that one. He had the nice play, but I was once again really impressed with Matt Baldy. He is a heck of a player. Yeah, he he makes nice little plays. That uh resoft guy is pretty good, too. Pretty good, too. Although I don’t think he was as dangerous tonight as we’ll see. He was trying he was setting people up trying to get rid of the puck. Yeah, I mean he he had a couple chances right from the front of the net and he Well, he may not really have he had one where he was trying to pass the ball. He does that more than he does actually be selfish. Yeah, he he finds a way to I mean he’s a great he’s a great player. So is he worth 128 mil? I don’t know. Well, I tell you one thing. Baldi did it in the four nations. I think he’s on the Olympic team. Obviously the GM is his GM in Minnesota and Billy Garren, but there’s no nepotism there. He deserves to be on that team. Go ahead, Sean. Well, there might be some nepotism. You never know. It doesn’t hurt to even if it is though, I think he’s good enough. Yeah, but but it’s uh the most interesting thing that happened with Capri off tonight was the fact that uh Craig Leopold held his annual meeting with preseason meeting with the media and was asked about Capri off and said there’s nothing good I can say right now about this. So you talk about $128 million when the owner is saying uh something like that uh you know there’s something there. Well, and you know what what Craig did do right in the beginning of this whole thing when we had Billy on and I I even said to the guys, I said, “I’m not gonna I’m not gonna say it.” And I don’t think I did say it, but I was going to ask Billy. It’s got to be kind of hard sometimes signing a player when your your owner comes out and says, “We will get him signed.” You know, now all of a sudden, and no one will offer him more money than us. Yep. Yep. That’s tricky. All right. So, it was two nothing after the first. Uh I didn’t think the Stars were as good in the second period. I thought they carried the play for the most part in the first, but then gave up those two late goals. I thought Minnesota was the better team. Baldi had a big big chance. Good save by Des Smith. Uh Liam Ogrren did in the second and the third period had great chances and couldn’t hit the net. He had one where he whiffed on another pass from Baldi who had his stamp all over this game. But then Bud’s kind of out of nothing. Wyatt Johnson scored a goal and made it 2-1. He did. He’s pretty good at that. Yeah, he he was. But that was the one I thought that that Bourc set him up nice. You know, Maver Maverick really made a nice play and it’s here on the wall. Maverick again tight turns towards the boards. He sees the passing lane and then the next next screenshot here and you can see where Wyatt’s starting to come into the picture and then Wyatt actually gets this puck in his skate and it hits him right in the foot. Wyatt easily picks it up and then finishes it off from here. But I thought it was good vision from Bourc and then Wyatt gets on track here, kicks it up to the stick and then buries it. He’s a Wyatt is a great shooter from that spot. Range up. I think of that backhand against I think it was Seattle the goalie the winner he scored against. I just feel like he always puts the puck in the net when he gets in that spot. So keep doing that. He’s a good finisher. Then to start the third period, he does it but to the other corner. He shoots far left corner instead of the top right corner. Les, did you think this one was even more out of nothing than the because the Bourke one obviously he does that nice hold up play this you talking about Wyatt second one. Yes. To me I wrote that down. It was all Maverick. I mean all all Wyatt literally all Wyatt. Everything he did was was all him. I mean he just navigated through through the cast of people and buried it. Third period was a runaway for the Stars. They scored four times. Wyatt first 35 seconds. And then Sam, you’ve been banging the drum for Justin Ritzkovian and he scored a goal right after a power play as he goes to the net, goes to the backhand. Wyatt gets the assist on the play. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of credit to Wyatt, too. He won pestering at the blue line, just kind of reaching, making sure they can’t make the easy play. Puck ends up in the corner, wins a battle against two guys, gets that little chip backhand to Ritzovian who showed a lot of patience for the young player. Right. That’s actually he didn’t get credit for the assist. That was unassisted. His assist on the board. definitely touched it. I watched it like 10 times. So, he doesn’t get one there. So, he could had a four-point night, but then Maverick Bourc scores on the power play. This is after uh Ogrren dehand and hit the post on a breakaway and then Height had a redirection that forced a really good save by Casey to Smith. Then Bourke goes into the corner and just rips one. Yeah, Sean, I’m I’m guessing you would say this is a poor goal if you’re a Minnesota goalie coach. Uh yeah, the uh the kid who came in, little Samuel Lyava, how do we I don’t know how to pronounce his name, but the the the the minor leaguer that they came in they brought in for the second half of the game came in with a real difficult situation and Maverick Bourke was feeling it confidence-wise and that’s one that they’re definitely going to look at and he’s going to want it back and it might have been his last preseason appearance based off that too. So, it was not a it wasn’t a good one. By the way, they are turning the floor the ice. They They’re laying a basketball floor behind me if people are wondering why. It’s not a slamming door. It is the They are laying down basketball flooring behind me right now. That’s what the uh the constant banging is. So, so it’s Samuel Lavi. Lavi, according to the NHL pronunciation guy, Lavi. So, there you have it. So, he did not have great numbers. No. And then uh after Bourke then Kolonic gets an empty netter and they win 5 to2 from the point. I would just like to say regulation, no overtime, no shootout. That’s what we needed tonight and I’m happy because of it. Okay, real quick. I learned this tonight cuz I got clarification on this because the other game I watched tonight, we did have a dumb freaking shootout in a game that was five to2. It is the home team’s choice. Yeah, because it’s preseason. So, the home team, the home team always has the ability in preseason to choose to have a shootout. So, if there is a pre if there is a shootout, no matter what after a preseason game, you blame the home team. And so, there was I called it a timeout. Yeah. Was there a shootout tonight and none of us watched it because we all turned the TV off? Not that I know. It’s still going on. Well, I mean, we turned the TV off. the victory plus broadcast was who had the shootout Detroit no matter what I I do remember that happening once with Dallas. Yeah. So it’s it’s something that uh the home it is the home team’s choice for that to happen. So the one thing is we have to announce that ahead of time, Sean, like before the game. Hey, we’re going to do it afterwards or can they make the decision at the end of the game? Uh they have to make the decision before the game starts. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. They just like don’t score any goals. So let’s do it. Sean, did the other team line up on the blue line and chase them down? Well, no. Like, I mean, it was in the game in the game tonight the uh So, it’s funny in Detroit here tonight, they had this this check kid who picks his f his North American debut tonight and he’s in the game that they’re up 5-2. I talked to him after the game here in Detroit. He said, “I had no idea I was going to face a shootout till I heard the announcer, the PA guy with five minutes left in the game tell the fans there was going to be a shootout.” Don’t forget, don’t leave your seats in. Don’t leave. Oh, okay. So Sean, is it for the players or is it for the fans? Um, it is up to It honestly is up to the It’s more for the coaches. Like Like I like Todd Mlen in Detroit tonight said honestly we we wanted to one tonight because I’ve got three young guys who are trying to make this roster and I wanted to see how they performed in a in a big moment. He’s like obviously I didn’t send out Dylan Lark and I didn’t send out Lucas Raymond. I’m going to send out some young guys to see how they show out in this moment. So, it’s some it can be more of a coaching tool of, hey, you’re a young kid. This is pressure. Go throw yourself. Go go go go go go handle that. So, you can pretend it’s a a fan thing, but these are preseason games. It’s it’s more of a if the coach if a coach wants to use it as a data point for his roster. I would just like to point out before we get any further that everybody since we read the YouTube supporters club that they wanted more stars related emojis. Everybody is suggesting LDS emojis. Whether it’s LS’s shin pad should be emoji. We should have a mullet Luds emoji. We should have slut. How about a L’s forearm emoji? Luds, do you do a lot? Oh, the the forearm. Remember the Yeah, the shiver. What was that? Who was that against? You remember the behind the net? Was it the Salani? It was Oh, the Yeah, it was the Salani one. There you go. So, they’re all bringing it up and now Led is or now Ben is saying, “Send in your super chats with new emoji ideas. We’ll read them in the last segment.” So, keep it going. Um, we’ll get to that. Anything else that stood out to you guys and anything? Um, we already talked about Casey to Smith looking okay, but maybe needing a couple little things here or there. I thought he was good. As a matter of fact, at the end of this show, you’re going to ask who the stars were. I was going to pick him. I I I thought he was good. I think he made some timely saves. I He did. Yeah, I know. Especially when they were really breaking down in that second period. Yeah, there were there were some they were leaky tonight and I thought he was Yeah, I mean the easy one. It’s easy to pick Wyatt tonight, right? So, should have had four points. He officially had and didn’t uh let’s see. They’re down two nothing. Yep. And then Casey shuts the door and he allows him to crawl back into it. So I got one you you pulled. You want to break that one down real fast? Go ahead. What’s that? Oh, the first was this. Oh, well this is this is a couple a couple young guys. I mean this is a couple this is uh Becker and Mcdonald. Oh, this is McDonald. Yeah. And McDonald. So Becker’s the first one the on the left here. And again, you can you can see Becker, he kind of looks over his shoulder, but then he starts to look back and he never looks back again. And then uh the defenseman McDonald, look at where his stick is. It is not in a passing lane. So, this is something that And neither one of them, you know what I mean? Like again, young guys, but again, they they’ve played, so they should know these lanes, but the bottom line is And then Casey had to make great safer. All right. Up next, let me go ahead. I’ll go. Can I give one quick thing for Sam’s guy, Justin Ritzovian thing? When you look at little details, play college hockey. Yes, exactly. Um, when you look at little things that help you make a roster, Justin Ritzovian tonight, eight for 10 on faceoffs, and I know someone will go tell me faceoffs aren’t the most important stat, yada yada yada yada, whatever. Um, eight for 10 on faceoffs, gets three opportunities. I think that’s 80%. Yeah. gets gets three opportunities to take the initial draw on the power play goes perfect three for three to open our like those are those things where you can go and tell me hey faceoffs don’t matter this or that or whatever but when it comes to making this roster and those little details you’re going to do these are the types of things that Ritz Kovian has done a really good job of and by winning those battles and winning those pos helping win those possession battles off the bat that’s going to help his case So Sam’s guy. There we go. No, it’s a good point because he’s going to probably play if he makes the team, he’s going to be playing on a wing. Fact that you can trust him to come in when a center gets kicked off on a strong side, that’s huge. The one thing I want to say about Rizovian, look, he had a goal. He had great job in the in the faceoff dot tonight. There were a couple of moments, and maybe I’m picking on him, but there were a couple of times where he missed what looked like simple plays. There was a breakout. I want to say it was in the third period where he was on the left wing. Granted, he’s used to playing center, but the pass came to him and he just whiffed on it. And it wasn’t like a bouncing puck or anything. It he just missed it. And I’m not saying he isn’t good enough. I’m saying one of the things I wanted to see, and please correct me if you think I’m wrong, that I want to see him clean up is NHL regulars don’t screw up the simple plays very much. They make the simple ones. They’re also very good at other things. And I think Ritzkovian has a lot of talent, but one of the things that really sets an NHL regular apart is their consistency to do the simple plays the right way more often than not. And I just I saw a couple times where I went, “Oo, that reminded me of an AHL play where things break down and get a little loose and sloppy and you just want to see that cleaned up a little bit more.” Yeah. Effective and efficient. Yes. All right, let’s get to your super chats. We’ll do that next and keep this train rolling on the DLS Stars Postgame Show. this one on me. Is this my read? My read. Um, what if I uh you could hear you can hear all of the the building in the background of this and uh as they’re as they’re changing floors and that’s that’s kind of reminiscent of what we’re building at DLLS and just building a pretty awesome community of people who are I mean it’s a preseason game and I see this little number above my head. I don’t know if the viewers can see it, but on my screen I can see there’s 168 people live watching this who watched who are sticking around to hear us talk about a meaningless hockey game. That’s pretty damn cool. You can be part of a big part of this community that is growing. Become a diehard. Look at this QR code right below me and you get a cool shirt. I think you get one every single year. You get into the Discord or as we like to call it, Luds Damn Discord. And you get to join a pretty cool community of of stars, hockey fans, Dallas sports fans in general. and you get to be part of what’s been growing and building here and we’re going into year two of this and it’s going to be pretty damn awesome. So, become a dieh hard join. Look at the QR code here. I I don’t really know what else to say. It’s it’s a great deal. Well, you hit Owen from DLLS here. Nice. We got a new drop. I like that one. Uh let’s talk about Balln knower bonus. Take that being a die hard because you get a discount on merchandise. We talked about it with the new hat and Ryan can show you that hat if you want to jump on that do that now 20% off merch if you’re already a die hard. Well, what can you do with that 20% off? Well, you can play the balln knower bonus. You go to our website, you click on merch, then you click on ballnower bonus and they give you promotions that you can pick on college football. Uh, you know, will Arizona State get an interception against TCU? And you can pick whether you get it right or not. You spend $25 or more on merch. And if you get that right, you will win a gift card from All City for the same amount that you spent. Maybe you want to pick the winner between Oregon and Penn State. Maybe you want to go after some NFL stuff. Can Dallas sack the Green Bay quarterback? It would be Jordan Love. That’s the Balln knower bonus. If you think you know, get merch. Use your discount if you’re a diehard. Get more merch. It’s a win-win. Sean, is it Brachiosaurus or Brachiosaurus? I’m pretty sure it’s Brachiosaurus. He’s right. Yeah, that’s what I thought. It’s very confusing on here. Lord, he’s distracted again. That’s that squirrel drop. No, there’s a reason. If you read my article, there’s a reason. I just wanted to make sure I was pronouncing it right. Yeah. All right. It’s Let’s get to the super chat. Thank you. There it is. I love it. All right. We’re going to start with Ardell tonight in the super chats as soon as we get Ryan who asked him to do a totally different drop and now he’s got to get the super chats ready. Bing bang. There it is. Ardell with a Lewig. Ledwig. Could be Ledwig Dumbo. Dumba Dumba. It could be, but it’s probably not. It’s probably Ledwig. Is she wearing three with Pittsburgh? I don’t know. I don’t know either. We’ll have to find out. Soccer. I’ve never heard of her. Thank you, Ardell. Always a great He loves to chirp the soccer references that I bring up. So does Lud, so that makes it two of you. Let’s go to the next one. JT with a Lungquist and year after the cup finally caught a preseason game and postgame show. Good to be back. Bourc and Wyatt look look ready to tear it up overflowing with talent. Agreed. You know, it’s kind of a big deal for those guys. Like you got to temper a little bit because they’re not playing against a complete NHL lineup. But regardless, it’s uh they both look like they’re they’re moving well, especially Maverick. I mean, we’ve seen that a couple times now at a Maverick. I think he looks really good. I I honestly he looks excited because I think he feels he’s got definitely does. I I obviously prefer having Miko Ranton on the team, but part of me is sad that we’ll never see Maverick Bour, Wyatt Johnston, and Logan Stanov together. Well, dimminionative line, wouldn’t it? I always kind of wanted to see that. Luds, you talked about the evaluation process against a AHL lineup mo mostly on the first two games. It was a heavier NHL group for Minnesota tonight. Does that help with your evaluation or do they still look like they’re rusty? No, I think it helps. I think it was better tonight. And you’re not looking at the Wyatt and those guys, right? You’re looking at the younger guys and and again, I I thought I I’m not going to say it was a really clean game, but but it’s better. I mean, at least you know that you’re playing against more guys that know what they’re doing at this level and that you can compete against those guys and contain, conceal, and then there’s the little things that we just point out every once in a while that because everything when you get that things happen quicker. Sean, we’ve talked a lot about Maverick Bourc. You’ve had a chance to watch him a little bit tonight. I don’t know if you caught the other ones at all, but what’s your feeling about the way he’s playing now with the history that you know of the way he plays, the way he works, the way he bets on himself? Yeah, I’m a I’m a big believer in Maverick Bourc and I maybe was oversold it a little bit last year. Like I I went in expecting more from him last year. And I think there was he hit a little bit more of a wall and a curve last season that maybe I expected him to get through coming off that AHL MVP season from the year prior. So, um, watching him in preseason, once again, you add the big asterisk of it’s preseason and and how things are going and the lineups and everything like that, but there’s the confidence there. It is the it’s if when he’s a guy who when he is when he’s feeling it, for lack of a better, there’s no good way to define that, but when he is feeling it, he has that it factor. I’m using the same word over and over again on purpose because that is what Bourc’s game is. when he goes and he can seize the moment and he knows that he has the ability to be that impact player and we saw that in Texas a ton and kind of we missed it a little bit. We didn’t see it last season. We started to see a little bit of it so far this preseason. So, if he can carry that over into game one, I mean, no one is no one is cheering Jaime Ben’s injury, right? Let’s be clear on that. No one no none of the Stars players are like I’m happy Jaime Ben is out. But I guarantee you Maverick Bourke knowing on how he drives himself. He saw that and said, “Okay, this is my opportunity to go and take something a little bit more.” And I think we’re seeing some of that. I I’m I’m going to guess Belly’s had a good talk with him. Yeah. And I and I think that he’s given him some some good positive feedback maybe, you know, and again, he he’s not talking or auditioning again for a coach that didn’t play him in the playoffs. So I I I think he knows I think he’s in a good space right now. Feels like no one benefits more than him, right? Coach knows Lungquist obviously a little bit, but he actually earned some trust back and Nils has been good. Yeah, at least last game it was good. All right, we got more super chats that just came rolling in. We’ll go to our next one. Seth Eubank with a Lquist and you’re after the Cup. I really like the way the way defense looks in their own zone and getting the puck out of the zone. I ju just hope this doesn’t turn into bonus hockey, meaning Rick Bonis hockey. Yeah. Is that something? I mean, this isn’t turning into bones hockey because remember where Gully was the last few years. They he wants him to to shut things down the right way and let’s get going the other way. Yeah. They’re not trying to stifle McDavid and Michael or sorry, McDavid and Dryidle. They want him to be offensive. And there, when you think about it, wouldn’t you say that there’s more offensive bullets on this team than there was in Edmonton? more depth. I mean, there were some cannons in Edmonton, too. Yeah. And some bigger bullets, but but I’m saying there’s more of them here. And what you’re trying to do is you’re trying to get them to balance out their offensive mindset with being able to play at the other end of the rink. All right, let’s go to the next one. We’ve got AJ with a Lunquist and a Gurionoff. Nice. Or maybe Cameron Hughes. Is he 34? Maybe he’s injured. Sean, this one I’ll ask you. Miss stars hockey like crazy. What are you all noticing? It’s the difference between Spot’s power play system and Grahams. Is that is something we can pick up noticing? We haven’t really seen a full complement Stars power play other than in practice so far. Yeah, I mean this is a better honestly it’s a better question for Sam who’s been watching practice real closely on everything to kind of what the power play might look a little bit differently on because it’s these preseason lineups aren’t the full they’re not constructed to to run the power play the exact way. So, and there’s also a little bit of the you show what you have and you work on building some chemistry, but you also don’t give everything away to this preseason game. So, I can’t I personally can’t tell you the difference between the two because it’s not been on the ice in the game. Now, Samite has been at practice and might be able to give you a little bit more, but I think this is a really good question to to talk and it’s also going to change now with Jamie Ben’s injury. There’s going to be another tweak to this as well. So this is a work inprogress question where Sam can give a little bit better of answer. But right now what we see against Winnipeg on October 9th, 10th or 11th, whatever day it is, that’s going to give us the best answer honestly right away. Well, the one thing is perfectly clear is they’ve got another entry because they’re using a double man swing. I mean, they use it they used it all tonight. That’s the only one they used, but the personnel is a little bit different. But what I like about it is now you got a couple different looks. We we’ve complained about that last year is they just, you know, it’s the doing the same thing over and again. You were begging for variety. Well, I just I just think you need to give them a different look. I mean, they didn’t change anything up and they were getting stood up at times by by teams and you’re like, well, now what’s happening is Gully’s going to, you know, they’ll know if this one doesn’t work, we’re switching it up. So, if you’re looking at the base way they run it, pretty much the same. The differences I’ve seen is exactly what Led said, creativity and options. They want uh unpredictability within their power play. They want to have some things that they can do when a team scouts them and shuts that first two looks, you know, the first look, first two looks down. They’re also telling their players, and I wrote about this week, last week, I don’t know what week it was, telling their players to make plays. They have elite talent in this team and they don’t want to put them in boxes and put them in rigid structure. That’s what I think you’re going to see on the power play a lot is Miko Ranton making that extra play that maybe they wouldn’t think they can make under former coaches. All right, we got another super chat from to this one’s a Lquist and a year after the cup Lud’s shin pads emoji Sam leaning microphone emoji his two suggestions. They’re pretty good. This should just be a toilet for Sam. Like like seriously, you want to be like Sam. Did they already make those emoj like Well, you put yourself in it. It wasn’t even me. It was definitely John. And boy, destroyer of plumbing was a big one. Uh Tio also says Mav from the left side is lethal and he loves it. Heck, he looked lethal on the right side, too. He’s lethal. Yeah, he told he told us he would like I don’t know if it was on a show or in my interview actually, but he’s told us he loves playing that offside coming into the offensive zone. He loves cutting to the middle of the ice. So, yeah, I know I know a certain head coach that likes players that can do that. And Gully trumpeted that again today. Yep. saying, he goes, “If I if I had my way and I had the right people, I’d put every forward on their offside just because it gives you more offensive options.” And he said, “I I really noticed this.” He said, “There’s really no downside.” He said, “There used to be a time where you talk about players trying to catch a a clearing pass with their backhand.” He goes, “All the NHL guys can catch it with their backhand.” You can argue that. By the way, did you guys see that play Maverick Bourke did tonight? He got a pass in the zone up in the air and he knocked it out of the air with his backhand in control. Incredible touch and turned it into a scoring chance. That’s an NHL type play right there. It’s called hand eye coordination. That’s a that when you’re not a one sport athlete, when you play other sports, you can a big proponent of Let’s go into overtime and dive into that. Listen, this is the first night we don’t have overtime. Sean, any final thoughts here tonight as we wrap up this postgame show because we are staying on time tonight. Um, just I’m I’m interested to see I’m I’m interested to kind of learn and see how things go with the We talked about the Adam Ernie one, but he’s the one of one of those I’m I’m interested just because there is an actionable piece there on this as it goes over the next couple days of is he going to earn that NHL deal? Where are they going to move on that? because there’s a lot of other guys that have in that competition who the stars control either way, right? So, is there something to the element of, hey, maybe we want this guy as organizational depth and want to bring him in. Maybe there’s a benefit of signing him to be 13th forward, 12th, 13th forward or whatever it is for opening night. So, I’m interested to see where that goes. Um, and it’s I mean I’m I’m happy that it it’s also a good reminder that you know what, four preseason games next year is probably the perfect amount because we’ve done three of these and done with it. Feels we should be done with it right now. Don’t forget quick programming note. We’re off tomorrow. We will be back on Saturday preseason game at St. Louis 5:30 Central time pregame show and then we’ll do the game afterwards. For Luds, Sam, Sean, for Ryan, I’m Owen. Thanks for the super chats. Thanks for tuning in tonight. We’ll see you Saturday night 5:30 for Stars and Blues pregame show right here on DLSS. Slutty milkshakes [Music] [Applause] like the mayor.
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The Dallas Stars continued their undefeated preseason, by scoring five unanswered goals to turn a 2-0 deficit into a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night at Grand Casino Arena. Wyatt Johnston scored twice in his preseason debut, Justin Hryckowian gave Dallas the lead, Mavrik Bourque scored a power play goal and Vladislav Kolyachonok scored an empty net goal. Join Luds, Sean, Sam and Owen as the break down all the action, give their opinions on various player performances and take your super chats!
00:00 Intro
03:00 Breaking Down the Game
05:15 Mavrik Bourque’s Performance
11:00 Does Adam Erne Have a Shot at the Roster?
19:05 Luds and Sean Breakdown Some Key Plays
50:00 Super Chats and Fan Reactions
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