Undefeated Stars Preparing For Home Opener Tuesday Against Wild | DLLS Stars Podcast

Undefeated Stars Preparing For Home Opener Tuesday Against Wild | DLLS Stars Podcast

Right on. I do need my laptop for the address. You need to remember that. Monday, one day, Tuesday, two day, Wednesday, what day? Sam, you’re in my shot. Third day. What? Yeah. What? That’s the best part of that drop. Sam’s drop is so weird. I don’t even know what that means. But then Luds goes, “What? It’s the best.” No Luds today. Sam is in my shot. That’s okay. No, no, I’m kidding. Come on. You can come in. Reach in. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Sam, over here. You got to look at the camera. He’s over here going. Anyway, let’s start the show. We’re gonna have fun today. No Luds, no Sean, but we add a Robert of stars.com. Robert, Sam, me, Ryan. Let’s go right now. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] It’s It is Monday. It is October 13th. This is the DLLS Stars podcast, a undefeated DLLS Stars podcast. Alongside Sam Nestler, our producer Ryan Va. I’m Owen Newkerk. And you might notice that Luds looks a little different today. That’s because he’s not on the show. Instead, you might say, we are thrilled to have our friend Robert Tiffen of starsoughts.com joining us for today’s show. And we’re going to talk a bit about the Dallas Stars today. Shocker. like how does how do you even figure that out? We’ll get into a bunch of stuff. We have some fun audio and video and some interesting stuff from practice today as the stars were at the AAC. We’ll get into that. And of course, a little bit later, we have one of the goofiest sequences we were going to talk about. I think it was Friday or Saturday last week from Thursday night’s NHL action that we never got to. Sharks. Maybe it was a game on Friday. Golden Knights. Oh no, they didn’t play any games on Friday. Or maybe it was Sunday. Oh my god. They only had one game on Sunday. Yep. I first I didn’t know where you were going with that. Then I realized you’re Any time to take a shot at the old NHL, the schedule makers. Well, they have games going on right now, in fact. But let’s get to it. Roberts Sam. Yes. 2 and 0 is exactly where you want to be after two games. Is this exactly where they are? Because in some senses there are some things about their offense that looks like they are mid to even playoff form already. And then there’s some things which we kind of expected and I’ll go to Robert first because Sam and I have had a chance to talk about this with Luds. You knew with a new coach and some system changes that it wasn’t going to be seamless and you can see that in their defensive zone because there is thinking going on not playing. You can see that for sure. I think you guys talked after the game the other night about that that sequence between Wyatt Johnson and uh No Lungquist. they’re kind of deciding who’s going to go out and actually attack the puck. And of course, the puck ends up going right through them anyway. Um, but the encouraging thing, I guess, obviously they have growth areas. I’m sure you talked about it after the game the other night, too. There’s a lot that they still need to work on. Um, but boy, you could be in a lot worse places than having the best possible record after two games. As you mentioned, 20 and 0 is the best record you can have really. Um, and then you still have work to do. If that’s your floor, right? If that’s, oh, we really didn’t play well against a really good team in their barn and we’re still at 2 and 0. Uh, boy, that’s a pretty good place to be. If you really want to split hairs, okay, the tiebreaker of a shootout win versus overtime. So glad you But I don’t want to split hairs. Some of us don’t have any hairs to split two. Regulation wins. Actually, I don’t even want ros. I just want RWS. No. No. Honestly, it’s right. And Led and I were talking about this on a postgame show. We’ve lost Sam already. It is 4 minutes and 10 seconds into the show. Sam has no idea what we’re talking about. Luds and I were talking about how it’s so much easier. It’s my favorite drop. It really is nice. It’s so much easier to talk about those things the coach to to I’m not even saying feigning discussed in certain aspects of the team’s game, but it’s easier to be sort of working on those things while also in the happier mindset of you’ve won hockey, especially against division opponents whom you faced and beat in the playoffs in their buildings. You you’ve got to you’ve got to win games. You want to bank points, right? We all know the stats about Jay Gotener in October. He’s he’s nails in October. Um and he was certainly against Colorado the other night and I mean I think when Sam was in Colorado, we heard it firsthand from from the coach about how this team doesn’t need a lot to score. They you give them a little bit of space and they can capitalize and that’s exactly what they did. So in a lot of ways you saw their best version of a bad game the other night uh where they used their strengths to overcome their weaknesses and that being goalending and and scoring. And you could do a lot worse than have those strengths be the difference. I like that he was honest. I don’t don’t remember if it was after the game or today or both. Just said we didn’t have our legs. Like we just didn’t simply said this morning. You can Yeah, you can look at You can look at all the X’s and O’s. We talked about some breakdowns defensively, a little bit of chasing in their own zone, but really they looked like a team that didn’t have the legs to keep up with the Colorado Avalanche and they still found a way to win the game. And that is pretty incredible. And Robert, you pointed out when we were chatting uh at the AAC this morning that you felt the third period really started to highlight that. You wonder if it’s is it the legs from travel? Is it the altitude? Is it because Colorado is such a fast team? Or maybe a little bit of all those things. I think it’s a little bit of all of those things. Um but I also really think again it’s early so you you want to be hesitant to to say this is you know all the coach has has worked on has culminated in this specific victory. But when Golitzson talks about road hockey and that ability to go out there and play without thinking too much, especially on offense, I think this is exactly that sort of game where you you can almost kind of draw that conclusion that you know what, this is a team who didn’t have their best game, they didn’t have their legs, and yet when they got their chances, they were capitalizing on them. And that’s that’s what you want. You want a team that doesn’t let those mistakes, doesn’t let the fact that Colorado kept counter punching and kept dominating, kept having the puck, uh, take the wind out of their sales completely. They still had enough to find those big plays when they needed them. Uh certainly in goal, but even in the offensive zone, too. Yeah, it’s Harley said that too. He literally used the term road hockey in the post game saying that’s right. We just feel like and they’re they’re dancing around things, right? Nobody wants to say flat out we like it better than we did in the last few years under Pete or anything like that because they one that’s not true all in all cases and two they don’t want to throw their former coach under the bus. Harley was straight up was it feels like we have a little more ability to make a play to read the the situation and do what we think is right read make use your hockey sense not just be in a structure that’s so rigid and I think in those situations you get worn down you get pushed around that’s where that can shine a little bit it’s a great point you makes about it’s not always true that they’re just it’s not black and white Pete Dbor versus Glen Golson Robert I’ve been watching the Netflix Cowboys series uh and I’m sort of intermittently as can when you know we’re not doing all this hockey stuff and you know that I went through these scenes of and you know we live this back in the 90s but get to rewatch it and they’re talking about the difference when they fired Jimmy Johnson they go to Barry Switzer and those players had mixed reactions because they loved Barry the guy and how he had interpersonal relationships but they missed Jimmy’s coaching and the GM part and and the taskmaster at master es especially Troy Aman. And so I you take that as sort of a comparable. There are a lot of guys that were very positive about Pete Dbor when he was the coach of the Dallas Stars. This isn’t a don’t let the door hit you on the way out kind of situation. But it can also be true that there are certain things they like better, but that doesn’t mean it’s it’s black and white 100%. And if you’re Pete Dbor the last three years, what have you surely been hammering in all your video sessions? when we do the things we’re supposed to do and we do them right, when we arrive on time, when we are responsible and we have the sort of coverage we’re supposed to have, look at how well things work. I mean, we’ve said how many times that they had the best regular season record over the last three seasons combined under Pete Dbor. He had plenty of places to point to reinforce the fact that his systems and the players play were working and doing a lot of good things. So, I yeah, I think you’re right. The players don’t just toss that out and say, “Yeah, but we lost in the playoffs, so you know, that was all worthless.” No, they they know full well that they had a recipe that could get them really far and get them a lot of success. But when you keep losing to the same team and when you actually lose to that same team much worse the second time than you did last year, then I do think that some change was needed and like Sam said, they’re d they’ve been dancing around it more or less because they don’t want to completely throw him under the bus, but also because they could tell some change will be needed in crunch time, so you might as well just rip off the band-aid. Do you think Pete would have been fired after two years if they had lost in the first maybe even second round both years instead of the Western Conference final after two years? What if they had great individual season records two years in a row and lost to Edmonton in the first round two years in a row? That’s a little bit D’vor kind of posed that question right in that interview he did uh with where he said, “Well, hey, look, if we’d gotten the first year on my first year, the second year on my second year, and the third year on my third year, then we’re making progress.” But and he said it, you know, kind of uh a little bit, not sarcastically, I should say. Yeah, there’s a little bit underlying that where he said, “I’m a victim of my own success a little bit.” Um, but it’s true. I think it’s true. Like after two years, if they’re just making it to the first round again under Rick Bonis, right, they’d missed the playoffs, then they got back and got, you know, Jakeer got them to game seven overtime against Calgary. But other than that, they didn’t look like that team. If they were having a good regular season record, but then, you know, getting B, like look at Colorado, right? Does Colorado consider, oh man, we need to blow it up because of our last three years? Probably not quite. Probably not quite. So, I I don’t think he would have been fired after two years. If they’d had the regular seasons, they were happy. Let’s talk about Sam’s trip to Colorado because this is the part that I’m staggered with. You know where I’m going with this. Sam had, drum roll please, an uneventful trip for DLSS. Oh, boy. Now, maybe it’s because it was just to Denver. Dallas to Denver. It wouldn’t matter. But you have you have been last time king of the the dark raincloud following you wherever you go when it comes to trying to connections and flights and getting places. I didn’t hear any of this. This this was as smooth as it gets. I had a 15minute delay on my flight home yesterday. Oh and I didn’t even notice because I’m sorry to hear that. No, because it was so different than what the other ones. I was literally like I looked at my watch I was like, “Oh, we’re 15 minutes late.” I just didn’t even think about it because like the other ones were three hours or two nights stuck in Colorado. So, this was very I’m very very grateful because it it worked out well. Everything was seamless going to the hotel, no issues. Get in Denver. Got to the game. Got to walk a couple times from the rink to the hotel cuz I was close by. Weather was great. It worked out beautifully. Now, you still haven’t tracked down the Pete Dora pizza place, though. No. No. And I should have maybe checked it out because I was You went to barbecue instead cuz there’s nothing like leaving North Texas to get barbecue. I only did that. So, the funny thing about me getting barbecue there was because across from my hotel was a brewery that had a barbecue food truck and it had all the football games on. So, I was like, I’m going to go to the brewery. I’m going to sit outside and watch the Texas Oklahoma game, get some barbecue, and then it rained. So, I ended up getting the barbecue and having to go back to the hotel and eat it. So, the plan did not go as So, the raincloud did find you eventually. It just was delayed. Yes. So, I had to watch the Texas game uh in my hotel room with aside from our travel log, which is fun, but from the actual hockey side of it, it was your first fora, second game of the season, you’re there morning skate, you get to watch the game, postgame stuff. Anything that really stood out to you? Yeah, the two for me was the the how loose in in a good way the team is. Um, I know at times last year we talked about how I think after that Vancouver collapse, we kind of made a point that they still seemed like they were smiling and laughing around the ring. So, it was there. This group’s always been close and had fun, but it it’s a whole different level. Like, it it is lighter. It’s lighter. And I I talked about Maverick Borks using that word about how he feels specifically, but the whole team just feels that way. They’re able to have a little more fun and not just joking around and messing around at the rink. Like, let’s go out and work on a drill that is actually going to help us, but let’s have a little fun with it. And I think that that feeling goes all around the rink. Everybody seems to be in a better mood and it doesn’t seem to feel like they’re a tense group that if I make a mistake or anything like that, it’s going to really feel it. And that comes from the coach, but I noticed it from Glenn, too, because uh I think I asked him on postgame and what he does when he feels his team’s not playing well. And he said, “Stay calm.” That’s the number one thing I do. Stay calm. If I start getting anxious and freaking out and John Cooper screaming the f word at his team, not anything about John Cooper, John Cooper’s done plenty to earn that, right? Glenn Gooson just said like I just like to stay calm, think about it, take a deep breath, and then find a way to relay that information in a in a productive way because the the last thing you want to do is get a team that’s probably already thinking we’re all over the place. This is going on and then all of a sudden you start piling on and doing that as well. And I think that, as funny as it sounds, speaking of Pete, was game five in a nutshell. Was a team that was imploding on the ice and a coaching staff that was imploding on the bench. All of it just kept spiraling down and down and down. And at least so far, what Glenn’s only been here for two games. There’s we’re yet to see a four game losing streak or something that to really test what he’s like after that. But after a game that was pretty bad, he was really honest about it, fully understanding of what they needed to work on and very calm. And I’ve liked that so far. Isn’t it easier for Glenn to be critical of his team’s play after a win in Colorado and a twoame sweep on their road trip as opposed to, “Oh man, we’ve just we haven’t found anything so far and we if I yelled too much now, I don’t want to mess with where we’re building.” It it that’s what goes back to the initial comment, Robert, that we were talking about at the beginning of the show today was it is great to be in this position even with the warts and the thing the wrinkles they have to iron out because you can say we won. We feel good about ourselves and let’s talk about how we’re nowhere near where we need to be. And I think you also have to give I don’t know of the players that you guys have talked to, but some of the players I’ve talked to last year and and early this season who are new, asking them about what it’s like coming into this room. One of the consistent themes that I’ve heard has been, “Whoa, coming in here is like really great.” Like, this is a room that isn’t just light, but they’re light and confident. Not just high standards, but like high standards that we all hold each other to in a way that that’s just taken for granted, right? And I think Miko Ranton is a big part of I think he’s a huge part of a really big part of it because here you have your superstar, highest paid player who is also out there, you know, wrestling with with players on the ice today and everything. And he’s one of the last guys out there. One of the last guys out there who works really he works hard off the ice, too. who we’ve all heard um and and seen in some cases throwing the ball against the wall and all sorts of things. Uh and that creates a culture I think that’s really easy to come into as players and easy to keep going too regardless of whether your coach is Sean’s going to love this because Sean made this claim after game five. He said, “I’d hire Glenn Gullson as your head coach and I would make Mo Ranton your captain.” Half of it has already come true. I would not at all be surprised if at some point down the road after Jamie Ben retires, Miko Ranton and where’s the seat for the Dallas Stars? We’ll see. We’ll have that conversation later. We have we have talked about it here on the show. Lot more with Robert and Sam and the stars. We have some sound to play from Denver on Saturday night. We’ll do that next here on DLS. Guys, you know, it’s that time of year. It’s fall. Not in Dallas yet. Doesn’t feel like fall. the cool air will start to come and that means you need to have some good windows, Owen, because otherwise that cold air can get in and it can get a little bit chilly. 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I don’t know about you guys, but I’m very excited the hockey season is back. And and of course, we have the home opener for the Stars coming up tomorrow night. There’s nothing better than being in the building. The energy, the pace, the passion is just does not do it justice if you just watch it on TV. Now, you should watch it on TV when they’re out of town, but if you’re here for Stars games or let’s say you’re on the road traveling and you want to catch either a Stars or another NHL team, you need to use Game Time. It’s so easy to use. I used it this summer. And yes, Sean, I talk about it a fair amount because it’s actually a personal experience. Sam has used it, although you haven’t actually gone to the game yet. No, a couple weeks. But Sam has used it. Think about this. You get great things and you can get NHL tickets for great deals, maybe as low as $25. Priority fees included. Do you know your upfront costs? There’s no surprise fees at checkout. You can even go with zone deals. Save more money by letting the game time pick your seats if you just choose a section. Take the guesswork out of buying NHL tickets with Game Time. You download the Game Time app. Create an account and use the code DLS for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem the code DLS for $20 off like I did. Swipe, tap, ticket, go. Download the Game Time app today. All right, let’s talk about some reaction to Colorado Dallas on Saturday. Let’s first and foremost say before we play the videos from a entertainment standpoint, you can’t get much better than that hockey game. It’s a lot of fun up and down. You know, bad defense makes for entertaining games. And uh both sides probably were pretty critical about some of the goals. Great goalending, right? It doesn’t have to be goals. I always say that it has to be scoring chances and particularly quality ones, high danger, high grade a chances that makes hockey games. He doesn’t have to go in if it’s a goalie duel and it’s zero zero, but you’ve got chances end to end. Thrilling. It’s the neutral zone trap slog hockey that LS’s team perfected in the 90s, although not as badly as the New Jersey Devils. That’s the stuff where, and I say this to Sam all the time, when I was growing up and I would watch in the mid 90s like a I was a Bruins fan in New England. If they were playing the Devils and the and New Jersey scored first, I knew the game would be terrible because they would literally try to suffocate the life out of it. This hockey game was fantastic. The games we were watching, we’re watching Boston versus Tampa. We were watching Colorado playing afternoon in Buffalo. Wild hockey so far. This is fun because the coaches haven’t ruined it by tightening all the defensive systems yet. They do that just like remember when threeon-ree first came out? Yeah. And Lindy said, “We’ll find a way to to spoil it.” And they did. They did the regroup. And they used to regroup at first. Chaos hockey is fun. I I don’t know when that flip will switch will flip. At what point is it 10 games in When do we start seeing that? But right now, teams are going offensively defenses are awful awful and that I really it it was really fun. And it’s also better because the Stars won. Yeah. But even if they lost, 5-4 is a lot better than 2-1. 5’4, a goalie who stood on his head, a fight, shootout, tons of chances, a freaky weird goal that ended up not counting from Robertson. It had everything. It’s actually funny you said that cuz I was thinking about it on my flight back yesterday. I’ve started to learn to step back. I don’t know if you feel this ever, but sometimes I feel like I’m putting on a coach’s hat too much and I’m like, God, they need to figure out how to get that adjustment in the defensive just sometimes you just got to relax and enjoy the fact that it’s a chaotic hockey game in front of you. I’m not the coach. We don’t have to worry about if they’re bad. It’s going to be fun either way. I don’t know if you feel that ever. Yeah, definitely. It’s easy to watch looking for certain things or knowing what you should be seeing and then you don’t see it. Uh and then to kind of focus on that and also because you’re kind of like riding your game or while you’re watching it, too. So, you’re kind of, okay, this is an issue or whatever. But as a fan, you know, that Colorado Dallas game the other night, I’m sure like a neutral fan tunes into that and says, “Oh, yeah. This is great. This is great. I love, you know, the coaches are probably both not thrilled, but I’m loving it.” Yeah, it’s fantastic hockey. And Sam to rant about the schedule like we did on Friday, the fact that there were no games on Friday and only one game yesterday. Uh granted, okay, they they they wanted to make sure they’d played a 32 team, 16 game slate on the first Saturday, but that caused some really truncated game schedules on both sides of that and a heavier than usual Monday schedule too today for Canadian Thanksgiving. Yeah, and that’s fair. Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian fans, even though it’s the wrong month. But no, I’m kidding. So, let’s talk about Jake before we get to those videos. You guys mentioned a great goalending performance. I did not think he was great on Thursday night in Winnipeg. I don’t think he was terrible, but I don’t think that he was as good as we expect him to be on a consistent basis. Now, look, you’re going to have ups and downs and everything. Boy, did he make up for it. I I wonder if he wasn’t thrilled with his game on Thursday in Winnipeg because he looked like he was on a mission and it started early. the Winnipeg game. Sam, you and I talked about this during the show uh Thursday night. Looked like he was fighting the puck a little bit, not tracking it real well. We noticed it really early in the Colorado game. He looked really sharp and it translated throughout the hockey game. I I I’ll just be honest, I actually didn’t think he had as bad of a game in Winnipeg as I think that the four goals might have made it look just because most of those were on grade a great double A chances. And I know we were talking about earlier even before the show, but for me, when you have a breakaway and that sort of kind of a prime scoring chance, and especially if it’s someone like Kyle Connor who scored a hat-tick, there’s a reason those players make that money. There’s a reason that you expect them to score when they get those chances. If you’re Kyle Connor’s coach and he doesn’t score in those chances, you’re thinking, “Oh man, he really should score on that.” So, I don’t think we can kind of have it both ways a little bit. Not that you’re saying that, but to me, I think the main goal that actually lines up completely with that was I think it was the second Kyle Connor goal where he got the initial save, but he lost track of it as it kind of tumbled down in front of him and Connor found the rebound first. Whereas in Colorado, he was absolutely on his game. It looked like he was out there to prove a point for sure. That’s the one that I noticed. I I said it Thursday, but that Jake is a big positional goalie. So, when he’s on his game, that’s how you tell. He’s clean. He’s not He’s very efficient with his movements, and his rebound control is great. If you watch the first period in Colorado, the amount of times he looked through five or six people and just swallowed that up in in his gut or uh forget who it was, McKinnon maybe on a onetime or something from the circle and he’s not just out and like catching up to it. He makes the save and he punches it, block it right in the corner. That’s when you know Jake is seeing it super well because he’s a step ahead of the shot instead of reacting. And he looked great in that game and he was he was so gassed that he sat down for postgame media instead of standing up. We were like, you could stay. You don’t you know you know he’s been working hard when that happens. Yeah. You don’t need to get up. To me that’s that’s the sort of Jake Cottonure game that we have seen before where I tend to be more critical where those shots are getting through or where he’s not catching up to the even if he’s making the save if he’s not kind of tuned in. And to me that’s where if if it had been like that in Winnipeg where shots were going in from distance or he’s just not tracking or picking it up through bodies or screens that’s where I would be a lot more critical because he needs to use his eyes to be able to stop those. But when it’s, you know, mostly breakaways and stuff like that, I just I tend to be more of an apologist for goalies in those moments. But also, I was a goalie in soccer for a while. So, I tend to be an apologist. You would think that would be the case, but I I actually get more because I was the same thing. I was a goalie in college and soccer. Yeah, you were a lot better than I was. Let’s be let’s be clear. But let let’s just say it in this regard. Shawn was critical of him. And when Shawn says it, I tend to believe it because he’s their goalie expert as much as you can believe anything Sean says. That’s right. But he he didn’t like the first Kyle Connor goal. He that I want to see Jake be more athletic than that. It looked like he got caught swimming a little bit. It is back door. But and and Sam, you’ve talked about how he doesn’t use his stick. He could Leds wanted him to put his stick down and interrupt that pass. But ultimately, I thought it was a wonderful response. And for your 8 million plus goalie who also expects to be pushing for the starting job in the Olympics for Team USA, he needs to do that. and he doesn’t have to steal games all the time, but he has to not be the root cause of losing them either. And remember last year to start the season, the Stars were having trouble finding offense and their power play wasn’t clicking. A lot of players weren’t, you know, Robertson wasn’t scoring. Johnson wasn’t scoring. Even Hkin wasn’t really scoring that much and they needed Auter to really carry them. The scoring doesn’t look like it’s going to be a problem so far early this season. And he’s still carrying them in a really, really tough game. So, in a lot of ways, I think there’s even more reason to be positive kind of through two games, albeit than there was last year. Yes, Sam. Thank uh Sam Nestler, DLSS, I have a question. Uh go ahead. Does does the goal count if they win the shootout 5-4? Does that mean the Stars scored five goals? The Stars scored five goals, Sam, but it’s counted as a team goal. A goal scored the winning team in a shootout gets awarded a team goal. So, your goals in the standing, which is one of the tieers. So in the standing list you have four five your team but your individual player doesn’t get I knew that I just wasn’t sure if it counted. It’s a team goal is the phrase. There you go. Speaking of team, Jared Bednar had a funny line because the Stars have this weird schedule with the Avalanche. They played on Saturday and then they don’t play again until March, which is a long time. They’ll play three times in the back half of the season. This is basically after the trade deadline, seven times in April, which is great except that boy, wouldn’t it be nice if sometime in November or December, we saw one of those three games. So, it’s a little bit more spread. You get a couple early, couple late. St. Louis Dallas is weird because Dallas will play the Blues this Saturday and then they won’t play them again until right before the the Olympic break where they’ll play twice in a week and then once coming out of it and all of a sudden they’re see it’s again scheduling is weird. I don’t want the job. just want to complain about it. Well, maybe Jared Bedner set the schedule because I think he said he’d rather never face Dallas again. I actually with the club. So, let’s hear Jared Bedner. Sorry. The the schedule is But is it frustrating? Like, do you wish you were facing Dallas again sooner than March? No, I don’t care. Oh, I would love to never see him again. He was actually in a wonderful mood pregame. He was talking about the tank tops and you know it’s funny because I’ve said this before Jared Bedar the way he speaks and his his uh his accent his style of speaking is very different from how smart he incredibly accomplished hockey coach obviously won championships at the ECHL AHL and NHL level right he’s done it all but he has sort of a slow way of speaking that sometimes come across as being kind of laid-back kind of loose and casual this guy’s sharp as attack, but he also has some pretty funny senses of humor. And I kind of enjoyed that line because that also shows that the stars have been really thorn in the Avalanche side, not just this year, the last few years. It’s nice to hear the other side of it once in a while because we talked about I mean, Vegas was the team for Dallas and then now it’s Edmonton. It’s nice to see they’re having it that success on the other end as well, though. The team doesn’t want to play them. It’s good to know that, you know, I I have to think it’s good for a team to know they’re the villain to the other team, right? As much as Dallas has had, like you said, those teams, it’s got to be nice, especially as a goalie, maybe like Jakeer, who we know kind of thrives in going in those environments like that to know that you’re you’re in their head a little bit. Yeah, it’s actually funny seeing Colorado hates Dallas fanwise. The Colorado fans hate not only hate the Stars, but they hate us as media. They hate everyone that talks about the Stars. They hate f the fans don’t like each other. It’s kind of like that Minnesota Wild Dallas series uh a few years ago where the fans were just going at it. But there’s a different layer of each, right? They they hate Duchine because he wanted to trade. Yes. They hate Rantinon even though he didn’t want out, but because he went out and then did what he did to them last year. Ruined them last spring. They hate Attinger, but in a totally different way. Every single comment I saw about Jake is, “God, I hate how good Jake is. I wish he was not on the Stars.” So, it’s an interesting balance of like, “I actually hate this player and like he’s such a good goalie. They wish he wasn’t in the division. I bet you they feel similarly about Jay Goinger as Stars fans felt about Patrick back in the day. Great comparison. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Let’s take a look at the Nathan McKinnon postgame comment because this perked up a few ears. It’s fingers. Power play got back on the board today, too. Just how are you feeling about how that’s being deployed so far? What do you mean? Just how how do you feel like it’s looking so far? Oh, um I thought it was really good tonight. Really good tonight. Um a lot of great chances. cuz they know we were getting booed. Um I guess they don’t really know what a good power play looks like. We had a ton of chances and just nothing was going in and we finally got one. So I guess they got to boo us more. So there it is. The most important player. Although you could argue Kale Mar’s right there as well, but Nathan McKinnon is their engine room and he’s so good. And their power play was very dangerous. They had tons of scoring chances, couple of great days. Although that first power play they had in period number one on Saturday, I tracked them for six scoring chances, but no high dangers. Stars PK, I thought, and that’s why I asked Glen Golson this this morning about the penalty kill. Getting to see them now in two games versus just being on the other side of it with Edmonton because this has been a good penalty kill with Ela Nazertine for multiple seasons. It really has been. Again, I think there’s an element if you’re the Stars where you kind of start to think you’re in their heads a little bit given what you’ve done. And if you’re the Avalanche, you probably feel like you’ve thrown everything at them. You know, you win a couple of games four zip or whatever, I think, in the in the playoffs. And then when push comes to shove, you can’t get that last big goal. And McKinnon’s the only one in that playoff series and again on Saturday that could finally score on the power play. Nobody else, even though they had a bunch of looks. Sam, did you hear the booze on their power play at all? I believe you were there. I believe they were saying shoot. You think it wasn’t booing? I don’t believe they were booing. If they were, that’s idiotic because the power play was very dangerous. But to me, it sounded like it was shoot. The only booze I heard were every time Duchain touched the puck. Randon touched the puck. They showed one of those two on the board every time they did it. But I I I honestly didn’t hear them booing the power play. And I hope they weren’t. What about the little snippy Nate McKinnon though? That’s against game two again. Well, for them it was their third game in Colorado, by the way, thanks to the schedule makers playing their fourth game already today. Dallas has only played two, so it’ll all even out. Dallas is going to have plenty of bad nights and terms of the schedule. But that seems like there’s more to it than that. But that can’t just be I’m disappointed we lost in a shootout of a great game against a good team. That feels like that’s something that’s been festering a while from Nathan McKinnon. Yeah. You know what I will say is I’m I’m noticing some more uh freedom in speech from players so far this year. I don’t know if you guys have noticed that. Just I hope so. Just maybe a little more I’m going to say that thing that I maybe wouldn’t have said and that to me is what that sounds like. It’s like hey I could push that off but I’m not going to I’m going to say that more of this honestly. Wonder because they get briefings every year, right? And I wonder if maybe this is this has been a push behind the scenes from the league to hey, like don’t be afraid to be a little bit spicier. Why now? Because this league has been criticized for years in the players. And we’ll get I know we’re getting to the break here in a second, but this the the NHL has always been accused of being a team of a league that doesn’t sell itself nearly well enough from a player personality and drama. It’s always been don’t get away from the team concept. Well, and also I think McKinnon, when you’re Nathan McKinnon and you are the engine on that team and that power play runs, you know, Mar also, but you you’re Nathan McKinnon. What else do you need to say when when you also scored that huge power play goal? You wonder if maybe he felt like he was scoring it in spite of the fans a little bit and that was a little bit of a shot at like, hey, trust the process, folks. It’s game two. By the way, I asked Mo Rantin this morning. He heard the booze and he definitely heard them before he took that penalty shoot by far the shootout winner and he smiled when I asked him. He goes, “Oh yeah, I heard it.” So my theory is maybe the fans if they were booing the Colorado Power play, it’s just because every time they’ve booed a player, they’ve ended up scoring on them. So maybe they figure if they boo the power playing the fans of being very sophisticated booing works. All right, up next, we had some fun at practice today. We’re going to share it with you. We’ll get into that here on the DLS Stars podcast. Do you need to use the bathroom? No, I was asking about the ad break, but never never mind. This is an ad break. I’m going to talk to you guys about the YouTube supporters club. You want to listen? I’d love to. YouTube supporters club here at DLS is for the real ones. True sicko level stuff. This is I learn something new about the supporters club every day. So, me doing this ad read is funny. 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Well, if you see the size difference between the cone and the bong win the brow 88, the cowboy star big tech mllo ls the 32 flag that’s for Cooper and the Stanley Cone. That’s where we’re at so far. Hilarious. Very, very cool. Especially because they didn’t win, so it was a failure, but it was hilarious. All right, so let’s talk about practice today. Before we play the video that Sam shot, which is interesting, Robert, I I thought that the reasons that Glenn Golson gave us why American Airlines Center, why not Fris, their practice facility, which was something that was very very common. You come back, practices in Fris, that’s where their headquarters are. That’s where the the executive offices are. All the hockey operations guys are based out of there. The coaches have their more regular setups there. Training staff has all of their tools. Not saying that they don’t at the American Airlines Center, but because it’s a shared building, it’s not theirs all the time, even though they have their own locker rooms. And Gully was pretty insistent about why he wanted to practice both today and I believe a planned practice Wednesday between the home opener. Yeah, there have been occasional times in the past, at least in the past few years, where the Stars have practiced uh not morning skate, which is just about always at at AAC, but um where they practiced downtown. Um but it’s been rare. But this week, I mean, their home opener is tomorrow and today, and like you said, Wednesday, it sounds like they’ll they’ll be practicing at American Airlines Center. his line. Um, he actually used an analogy. Uh, he used the Cowboys as an analogy and talked about them, I guess, having some practices where they piped in noise to kind of simulate one of the road environment, maybe Kansas City or something. I wonder when he said that. I was thinking about Arrowhead. Yeah, maybe that was it. But he wanted to simulate that. I know uh some EPL teams have done that before, too, where they want to simulate what it’s going to be like playing in another place. They’ll like play even trademark music just to kind of psychologically prepare the players for what it’s like going to that environment. This is different. This is preparing to play in your home arena. But Gulletson said it’s important to practice where you play and just being being used to being there. Um I’m sure there could be other considerations maybe behind the scenes that we don’t totally know about. But it does seem like you said from what he said today that he really wants the team to be used to playing on this ice. And I do wonder after two games on the road in two different environments getting a little bit used to how the boards bounce and how the ice works and and you know even where you might get the weird bounces or how how the puck comes off the glass and board. It’s different in different places. So, the stars have already almost had one weird fluky bounce in their favor which didn’t count because of an offside, but yeah. Yeah, I it it is different and I wonder if it’s just another one of those things that we keep seeing and I think from a this may not be a fan thing because people that and maybe they’ll notice some things, but I think it’s stuff that we part of the Dallas media contingency will notice as we go. Oh, well, this is a little different. Oh, they used to do this and it’s changed. I’ve been around for a bunch of different coaches, right? Because of the Lindy Ruff and then Ken Hitchcock came back and then of course we had Jim Montgomery here and then Bones Pete. God, you’re old. Thank you. And you do see different ways how they prefer to do things, whether it’s a morning skate or a conversation, how they want to handle the press and do their media stuff or the routine and what time they practice, whether it’s 10 or 10:15, 10:30. I know Pete pushed a lot of stuff to 11 was more of a time. Lindy used to start at 10. I think Monty was like at 10. I mean, again, these are minutia things, but it’s stuff that we see because we’re there every day. Well, and I also wonder if it’s if it’s connected to kind of Goldson’s ethos more broadly where he wants the team to simulate these playoff style environments, you know, the handtohand combat type phrases that that he uses. Uh, a great segue. He it’s not just about the X’s and O’s for him in the way that maybe some other coaches, you know, around the league, not just the last coach, uh, leaned into a little bit more. Goolitson, you know, again, he’ll be he’ll be proven right or wrong based on how they actually do at the end of the day, but it really does seem like, for lack of a better term, he’s looking to see a little bit more like heart and vibes and those sorts of things, which is very nebulous and you don’t want to over rely on those things, but it really does seem like he’s focused on squeezing that little extra bit of, you know, this is our place. This is where we play. We want to own this. And Sam, we talked about this the other night, but don’t you see I know it’s two games and we shouldn’t overreact. I feel like for all the offense Dallas has had in two games, a lot of it feels like playoff hockey. It’s going to the net. It’s scoring goals around the the other team’s crease. It’s not just pretty rush chances and tic-tac-toe stuff. Yeah. And that’s that’s what Golson talked about after the game is how he’s he’s 1% or his physicality, whatever term you want to use from how he’s kind of wanted to shift this team is not just his example over the summer was we’re not just going to keep running around and hitting people. Well, it’s also those little things. It’s the I mean, he he loves to answer when you ask about a goal. Even if you’re not asking specifically about this, he loves to give you the layers of the goal because he wants you to know that when Tyler Sean scored that back door goal in Winnipeg, what Maverick Bourke was right on top of the crease and that’s what was taking the defenseman away from him. He wants you to know that when Robo made that amazing deflection uh off the faceoff in Colorado that there were two other forwards in front that were taking away the eyes of the goalie. Those are the things that first of all he he’s clearly looking for and that I think we’re going to see this team start to take on and that’s that’s blocking an extra shot. That’s Justin Ritzovian standing up for Miro Hastin after getting hit from behind. It’s little stuff that maybe not as little but the all these things that was noticeable. All these things accumulate into a team that is going to play hard every single part of the game. They’re going to get to that extra area, whether that’s winning a battle in the corner, a little bit stronger on your stick in front of the net, uh going and laying that hit. I’ve seen Sean and hints hints I think you posted the video had a big hit a little normally he probably circled away from that guy and he throws that hit. He finished it. Smaller player I think it was Gavin Brinley, but it doesn’t matter. It’s Tyler Sean throwing a hit in front of his own own boards uh before he changes. that kind of stuff is starting to build up and Goldson just keeps talking about it over and over and I really have liked that and what Robert was just saying you know as funny as it sounds my dad used to say uh something like you know if you’re going to do it do it right and that’s always stuck with me where if I’m going to go do this I’m just going to use an example of a I’m going to go do this extra practice or extra media thing whatever it is I might as well do it well if I’m going to be there otherwise don’t go and I think that Glenn Gooson’s preaching that a little bit and I I’m a big believer in doing things the way you want to actually do them and not being able to flip a switch. I mean, the team was horrible last year, the last seven or eight games. Yeah. And they didn’t look very good when they came out and started the playoffs and we learned you can’t flip the switch. So, I know it’s early. I know we’re far away from game 83, but instill those behaviors and those habits, I think, is really important. and he’s not coming into a team that like has been missing the playoffs or is trying to rebuild and then saying if we just change our mentality we’re gonna jump 20 points in the standings because you see that sometimes and that’s a coach will sell hope and you know you need more than that you also need talent and skill but this team has that goldson said that this is a really good team that has that skill that talent that depth so if you add that on top that’s really what I think at the end of the day that 1% that one degree he’s talking about whether you call it physicality or something else. That’s all part of it, but it really is about we have such a strong foundation. How do we squeeze every last bit of juice out of that? Because last year, especially down the stretch, it looked like they were leaving a lot of meat on the bone and that led to a lot of bad things when when when they finally got to Edmonton again. Leave no stone unturned, right? That’s that’s a perfect way of putting it. I want to break Can we break a minute early? Producer, are we okay with this? Yes, sir. His name is Ryan. I know. Yeah, we can break early if you want. Let’s Let’s do it fast because we’ve got a minute video clip that Sam shot today about practice. I don’t want to interrupt it with the break. So, let’s hit that break real fast. We’ll come back. We’ll do that. We still have some fun NHL news and notes to hit as well. I don’t know if we’ll have enough time, but we’ll do the best we can here on the DLS Stars podcast. Is this me? It is you. All right, perfect. You ask me that every time as if it’s not already. I My thing froze. It’s It’s not working for me. And the ad reads here. 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So you basically double your money. That’s the Balln knower bonus. You just said commanders too and he’s like football team. I know. I know. You can’t even script how funny that is, right? I love it. Okay, before we get to some other NHL news and notes, I want actually I want you to set up your video game time. Oh no. Oh my goodness, it’s so hot. I’m ready. Thank you, Robert. The video. Oh yeah, today at practice. Uh so we’re all sitting there. Practice is 30 minutes through already. Probably. They’ve done lines. They did some some fun drills. It was really fast-paced. A lot of a lot of work. A lot of uh a lot of breathing heavy from Glen Golson’s team. this drill. So, we’re all sitting there talking and we look up and all of a sudden everyone’s skating at once. If you can see this, every single player I want to make sure we got the goalies that are in the corner there doing this drill, too. It’s a one-on-one battle drill. Wyatt Johnson told us there’s no rules. You basically start, you race for the puck, and you in 15 20 seconds when they blow the whistle, whoever still has the puck wins. And as you’ll see in a second here, I believe the losers have to do push-ups. So, the goalies did the first one and then after that they didn’t want to do it anymore. They said, “This is dumb.” They started taking shots, but they’ll do another one here. So, there goes the whistle. Start off, get the puck, and then it’s a battle. Yeah. The pucks are all sitting at center ice. You have to race to get to the puck. Yep. And I know uh the ones I did see were Maverick against Wyatt, uh Bishell and Petravic. And then the funny one to Owen was Tyler Sean and Miko Ranton. It was funny because Tyler came off the ice looking exhausted. And I said something. I said, “Tough one.” He goes, “Well, yeah, when you get paired with the Moose,” he goes, “People don’t realize how big of a guy he is.” He’s a pretty big guy. He’s a pretty big guy. Hard to push off the puck. But it’s funny, the biggest thing I took away from that one was we talked about Goldson wanting compete, right? He he actually said a quote I I think I tweeted out that I loved was when talent is even on both sides, it usually comes down to hand-to-hand combat. And that’s that’s just so true. like you get to the Western Conference final or the Stanley Cup final or even, you know, a game seven in a in a series that’s even like they was in the first two rounds. It doesn’t matter who has this guy that can score a goal or this guy that can score a goal unless you’re Conor McDavid or Nathan McKinnon, but it does matter those little things and that’s what he’s trying to get out of this team in those little battles and things like that. But the other thing uh was these guys are so competitive. I mean, as soon as you come in the room, they’re all chirping each other. Petravic’s chirping Bishial because he said he beat him in all three. You know, I asked Wyatt about how he ended up on his back with Maverick on top of him and he goes, “I still had the puck, so I won.” The compete between these guys on every little drill and Jason Robertson, you know, arguing with Casey about a shot, was it a shot on goal? Was it a Was it a goal? It’s just hilarious to see the compete from these guys and it’s a there’s a reason why they are professional athletes. Not a game. Just practice. Beautiful. Not a game. Not a game. That that second part really got me right there. Is there more? That was good. No, there was a little pause there, but Oh, it’s so good. Yeah. Um, let’s do a few little NHL news and notes. Uh, we have lots more to get to with the Stars, of course, tomorrow night playing at Minnesota Wild, believe it or not. Actually, last thing on that from what Sam said really quickly. I don’t think you can underestimate how or overestimate how important it is for a team to have that mentality of yes, hand to hand. Like at the end of the day, what’s going to make the difference here isn’t us executing our plays better or us being faster or more skilled or getting that save as maybe kind of some people thought was the case uh after that Edmonton series. If you have that mentality, know how hard I battle, whether or not I win my hand-to-hand combat, even if it means you maybe take a penalty or two more here and there, I I really think that they believe as an organization, they believe that that is what they need to get to that next level or literally next round. You might as well build it in now because they believe that they can’t just trot the same thing as last year out and expect a different result. This could be that tweak that puts them over the edge. Yeah. Just think about they they always look like the team that’s most beat up when they get to that round that they look slower than the Edmonton Oilers, which is easy to do, but they also look beat up. They look more tired. They look like they’re having a lot more trouble scoring goals. You you throw those hits five, six, seven times over the first each game. Now, Bousard’s a step slower. Uh you know, if you’re playing against Kale Mar, he’s a step slower. Conor McDavis maybe still a step slower, but still a million steps faster than everyone else. But it can wear on people. It’s a it’s a real thing throughout the playoffs. We’ve seen teams take advantage of Harley and Hastkin and throw hits every time they can. And guess who looks tired in Western Conference final? Harley, Hastinan, hints, the big players. I don’t think that’s on accident. All right, we had something cooking from last Thursday night and we wanted to talk about and it just didn’t play into our schedule on Friday and Saturday. What a finish. It was a little unfortunate because I thought the Vegas Golden Knights were going to drop points. Oh boy. This is the San Jose Sharks home opener against the Vegas Gold Knights. They’re up by a goal. Vegas had played the night before at home and won over LA, I believe. And they’re trying to get an empty net goal and he misses it by an inch or two and then he tries to wrap it around. It wasn’t Patrick Stefen where he missed a a breakaway from the red line. It wasn’t jumped on him. It wasn’t quite that. Did it just Did it just roll off or did it get blocked by Theodore whoever was right there? Did anyone see the on the wrapound or the wrap around? Yeah, they blocked it. They did block it. Okay, that’s what I thought. Ryan, can you back that up or is that all part of the loop? Go back about three frames if you would please. Right there. That’s the He didn’t quite have control of that one. The first miss was worse of the two. I I think Okay. But then you get going the other direction and so they miss an empty net. Could have scored. It would have been 4-2. Would have been done and dusted. San Jose wins over Vegas. Then the puck gets lobbed in from the red line and it bounces past Alex Nadulkovich and it goes in. It’s a howler of a goal and ties the game at three. Should never have gone in. And you’re thinking that’s awful. What a horrible way to to go to. Could it get worse? Could it get worse? Then threeon-ree overtime. Here comes Nadelovich thinking I’m going to play this puck near the blue line. By the way, he can’t cross the red line with the puck. It’s a penalty. And what happens? He whiffs and Riley Smith who’s in this frame. We have another one. Former Dallas Star who Yes. And Texas star. He scores an empty net tap-in goal because it gets by Nadulkovich. It’s unbelievable. So yeah, if I’m not saying that the San Jose Sharks are tanking for Gavin McKenna, but if you were, that’s a great way to make it look like you’re trying really hard. I just feel bad for Nidulovich who like it’s been 5 days now and he probably you know is innocently out there. We’ll figure out I’ll tune into a hockey podcast see how the stars are doing and then boom he’s catching strays. He is notorious for days later. That’s rough but that is rough. I will say it’s funny watching watching Riley Smith cuz he he kind of half plays that cuz he’s not you know in overtime it’s tough cuz you’re matched up. You know, I think Glenn just talked about this morning. You you don’t know whether to go after the goalie sometimes because if you do and he gets it by you, it’s an odd man rush the other way. So Smith kind of skates by him and passes and then by the time he turns to look over his shoulder and see where it is, he’s actually getting the pass from his own teammate for an empty net goal. So it what a just a what a San Jose Sharks sequence. I remember when I worked at the NHL office a couple years ago, I’d always get assigned the Sharks games and I’d edit the you know the Taylor Baird and the other NHL correspondents articles. I’d always get the Sharks 10:30 game and they was always that was when they were really their bad their year was really really bad. They lost two games in a row 10 to one and 10 to2 and that’s what it looked like. They just found ways to do that type of thing every single time. It was like the little league plays, right? You just throw over first, he runs a second throw pass. Just how is what you ask yourself. And so that wasn’t as bad. They got a point against the Vegas Golden Knights, but uh probably should have had two. Did didn’t they lose their next game like 76? Also, probably they gave up some some goals. Uh, let’s see. That would have been Well, it wasn’t Friday night because there weren’t any games on Friday night. Hey, now. But they all played on Saturday and checking out because John Clingberg scored. Former Dallas star John Clingberg scored a goal. He did. Ryan Reeves scored his first goal as a Shark and they lost to the Ducks 7 to6 in overtime. So, they’re racking up points. They’re racking up points. The Ducks had to score it with 51 seconds left in regulation to force overtime. the the Sharks were actually up by two, six to four and a goal at the halfway point of the third and then in the final minute from Chris Krider, new new duck and then Leo Carlson in overtime 46 seconds in that I mean that’s uh let’s see that’s two points that the Sharks should have had points mans giving them away. They and the Colorado Avalanche getting those loser points that’s what you need playoff team. So Sharks and Aves basically same thing. It’s great. It’s gonna be a first round match up. On a serious note, Lane Hudson has signed a new contract today. The youngster who was, by the way, the Calder Trophy winner. This is a more newer trend of teams identifying their young talent and getting them to longerterm deals earlier, which I think is a smart thing to do. Bet on your talent. Well, he’s only 21, but he signed an eight-year extension, which will kick in after his ELC is up. An $ 8.85 million AAV. 70.8 million in total money for the guy who’s going to be an RFA at the end of this year, but they are giving him the big money early and I don’t think there’s any reason to think he doesn’t deserve that. It’s making more than Mirro Hastin starting next year. Are you okay, Sam? Yeah, people in the chat are saying it looks like I have a neck tattoo for this microphone. So, I’m trying to play trying to play play around and make it look like that. You told me you just had the tramp stamp. That was it. Yeah, I just all I have. L has a tattoo that we didn’t know about. I’m not going to say that because he’s not here, but he’s got a tattoo that we don’t know about that he won’t show us. But I wanted to say that our guy to says that Robert Tiffen is the fifth beetle. Nice. That’s not good. Unless it’s Bob Dylan. Some people welcome. We’d have to do the math on it, but you and Ringo though, that’s the real question. You and Hikah have both been multi- uh guest appearances. Haika wins. Whatever the comparison is, it’s close, but true. Like the Top Gear thing with the lap times, you know, the board get points for coming on in Finland. So, and you both did it. So, it’s neck and neck right now. Mike loves to say I was on TV. I was on TV. I was on the TV yesterday. Lastly, uh two things. if Genny Ddonov for the New Jersey Devils placed on IR yesterday because he has a fractured hand which is sad to see. No, that’s bad. I I’m disappointed about that. So, I hope he heals up, but he’ll be out for a little bit. And then Ryan, if you’d pop up the three stars real quick for the week, just to to sign off our NHL news and notes. The NHL’s first weeks of three stars. Look at Pavl Dora Fivv. The young Russian has five goals already in just three games played for the Vegas Golden Knights. I think that you know we’re talking about Marner Eel just signed his new deal at 13 and a half million which is definitely more team friendly than Carrill Capri off we’ll see tomorrow night. Dor Fia, don’t sleep on this guy. He could be a 40 or 50 goal scorer for this Vegas teams this year. It’s a deep team. That’s why I picked him to win the cup. I mean, we did pick Vegas, but that’s maybe for reverse curse kind of things. Thoughts about and and then look at Shane Pinto having a nice week and of course the Florida Panthers. Injuries abound. Don’t worry about it. Just three wins. You think Ottawa makes the playoffs? Yeah. Yes, I do. Yeah. I think maybe even at the cost of Montreal, which is Ottawa, Columbus, Montreal, they’re all in that mix, but I think the Senators got a taste and they move up. Well, that Josh Norris trade is also looking pretty good for them, too. It is. He just got hurt, didn’t he? Yeah, don’t sleep on Ottawa. They could they could battle for the division with these guys that are all trying to figure everything out over there. The East a little bit wide open right now. He does. Yeah. Yep. Great show today. Huge thank you to Robert for coming on. And don’t forget to check out his great work on starsthoughts.com. It is wonderful. And if you’re looking for in-depth coverage besides us, of course, he is a great Very different. He give you stuff that I don’t even think about. Yes. These two writers very different in what they are giving to the table. I read everything Sam writes for the record. So so should you. I do too. So thank you to Robert. Thank you to Sam. Thank you to Ryan our producer who we did not just call him producer. I’m always eagle one. 7:45 tomorrow night pregame show live here from the studio. Sam will be at the AAC. I’ll be over there afterwards. Stars and wild home opener tomorrow night. Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand for me.

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The Dallas Stars had a very successful road trip, earning wins at Winnipeg and Colorado to open the season. Now the team is back in Dallas and practiced at American Airlines Center on Monday in preparation for their home opener on Tuesday night against the Minnesota Wild. Special Guest Robert Tiffin joins in-studio to talk about where the team is at after their first road trip and Sam takes us through his quick weekend trip to Denver. Plus, we have the latest NHL News & Notes.

00:00 Intro
02:30 Recapping the First 2 Games
10:45 Sam Recaps His Trip to Denver
26:55 Colorado’s Reaction to Stars Defeat
37:00 We Talkin’ About Practice
52:20 News and Notes

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