{"id":540664,"date":"2026-04-04T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:57:57","slug":"stargazing-a-dallas-stars-puckcast-episode-320-dropping-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540664\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargazing, A Dallas Stars Puckcast \u2013 Episode 320: Dropping Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"Defending<\/p>\n

Logo design: Jason Lara | @NHLMaps<\/p>\n

The Dallas Stars have visibly struggled with late-season injuries in the past couple of weeks. And nowhere has this been more apparent than in the depleted forward corps. How do you rotate lines when the second line is missing?<\/p>\n

In this episode, Wes and Mark talk about this in depth. They discuss whether Michael Bunting needs to play on the first line, the possibility that Tyler Myers has a Jordie Benn problem, the state of the defense, how the Stars\u2019 run-up to the Stanley Cup Playoffs is panning out, and \u2013 of course \u2013 who falls where on the Expected Rawr (xRawr) chart, now enhanced with up to 37 percent more made-up stats.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

You take two of your best players off the roster, and all of a sudden forward depth is an issue. We\u2019re Stargazing, and we get it. We really do.<\/p>\n

Which Stars are in which xRawr quadrant? So far, Wes and Mark have calculated rankings for the following players, current and historic:<\/p>\n

Sam Steel<\/p>\n

Jason Spezza<\/p>\n

Alex Radulov<\/p>\n

(Yes, we are this committed to the bit. Get on board now, or risk an injury when you try to jump this train during the playoffs.)<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk more in the comments. And don\u2019t forget to give us a rate, review, or share wherever you get your podcasts. That\u2019s, like, our whole thing right now.<\/p>\n

Welcome to Stargazing. We love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Logo design: Jason Lara | @NHLMaps The Dallas Stars have visibly struggled with late-season injuries in the past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-540664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116347740261656645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}