Spits & Suds Podcast

2023 ECHL Athletic Trainer of the Year, Jordan "Dutes" Dutton from the Allen Americans joins Gavin Spittle for a Spits and Suds One Timer. From wearing a Stars sweater with a stick at the age of 4 to Plano Senior High, University of North Texas, winning a National Championship with Texas Tech with now Ranger Josh Jung to joining the staff in Allen. The 3 time Cup winner for the Americans takes us...

Host Sean Shapiro sat down with the Stars top two prospects Mavrik Bourque and Logan Stankoven and brought us the exclusive. Sean and Gavin also talk about the Stars OT win against Seattle, a possible trade target, using the Emergency Goalie because of the salary cap, NHL news and more. Lots to discuss on today's edition with Sean Shapiro and Gavin Spittle 

Host Sean Shapiro sat down with the Stars top two prospects Mavrik Bourque and Logan Stankoven and brought us the exclusive.

Sean and Gavin also talk about the Stars OT win against Seattle, a possible trade target and using the Emergency Goalie because of the salary cap.

Gavin and Sean talk about news around the NHL including how much boarding is becoming a problem with the inconsistency of it being called or not called.

The Stars win a thriller in OT against the Kraken. Gavin and Robert Tiffin from D Magazine talk about the win. Gavin talks about the Kraken making it hard on the Stars offense early on but Dallas being able to use their speed to gain the advantage. The guys talk about different player performances in this win. If you look at the Stars lines, Marchment Seguin and Duchene have the number one line ri...

The Stars win a thriller in OT against the Kraken. Gavin and Robert Tiffin from D Magazine talk about the win. Gavin talks about the Kraken making it hard on the Stars offense early on but Dallas being able to use their speed to gain the advantage. The guys talk about different player performances in this win. If you look at the Stars lines, Marchment Seguin and Duchene have the number one line ri...

Gavin and Robert answer questions sent in by listeners.

Gavin recaps the Stars 5-4 win over the Ottawa Senators and talks about how he isn’t happy about this one. He’s relieved they won but they are showing they have some major issues if they are only beating Ottawa 5-4 and were outplayed for the majority of that game. Jake Oettinger got injured in the game and Scott Wedgewood came in relief and played well only allowing two goals. He talks a look at t...

With talk about how much better Miro Heiskanen would be if he was on his strong side, Spits and Suds gets the thoughts of two time Stanley Cup Champion Defenseman Craig Ludwig. The guys also discuss the art of checking and taking a hit and how it's leaving the game. Plus our thoughts on the most important player in the Dallas lineup. 

With talk about how much better Miro Heiskanen would be if he was on his strong side, Spits and Suds gets the thoughts of two time Stanley Cup Champion Defenseman Craig Ludwig.

The guys also discuss the art of checking and taking a hit and how it's leaving the game.

A listener brought up that he would like to change the rule of being able to challenge an offsides, Gavin and Craig discuss.

Gavin has Grand Rapids Griffin Cross Hanas on. Cross grew up in Highland Village in Dallas, he talks about how he got into hockey and how his dad grew up in Canada and had a big influence on him to be a hockey fan. Cross talks about his favorite player to watch growing up and the connections he made in Dallas with local players. Cross got injured last year and talks about how that journey was for...

Gavin and David recap the Stars win over the Red Wings. Gavin makes note that Detroit was missing some players and the Stars took advantage of that as they lit up James Reimer. Gavin and David talk about Oettinger not getting consistency because they are giving him time off and starting Wedgewood for load management reasons. The guys also discuss possible trade candidates for the Stars to improve...

Former Dallas Stars Assistant GM and NHL Executive for 17 years Frank Provenzano hops on Spits and Suds for some great stories. We pull back the curtain on drafting Alex Ovechkin when he was with Washington, not re-signing Mike Modano in Dallas, the backgrounds on trades, the bankruptcy in Dallas, the Sean Avery incident and more. 

Another loss for the Stars as they drop to the Florida Panthers. Gavin looks at the schedule and talks about the lack of quality wins the Stars have had this season and there aren’t many. He also talks about the Stars being up against the cap and this is the roster they’re set with right now. Gavin wraps with answering Tweets sent in by listeners. 

Hosts Sean Shapiro and Gavin Spittle dive deep into the Stars shutout loss with Sean telling us that now is not the time to hit the panic button and why? The guys spend time discussing how and if the defense can be fixed and when we will see Evgenii Dadonov and Nils Lundkvist back in the lineup. Spits and Suds also goes around the NHL with a focus on the streaking Arizona Coyotes. 

Hosts Sean Shapiro and Gavin Spittle dive deep into the Stars shutout loss with Sean telling us that now is not the time to hit the panic button and why? The guys spend time discussing how and if the defense can be fixed and when we will see Evgenii Dadonov and Nils Lundkvist back in the lineup.

Spits and Suds also goes around the NHL with a focus on the streaking Arizona Coyotes. 

Gavin recaps the Stars loss to Tampa Bay. He says if you expected another 8-1 win like they had on Saturday afternoon, that wasn’t ever going to happen. He brings up the Kucherov goal and how the defense left him wide open in front of the net. Gavin didn’t see the effort from the Stars in this game. Gavin says he expects some changes on Thursday if there aren’t any changes in Wednesday’s game. 

Gavin recaps the Stars absolute beatdown on the Lightning, with an 8-1 win. Gavin talks about Dallas going 2/2 on the power play and the Lightning only going 1/6, being a huge difference in the game. The Lightning have a great power play unit but the Stars penalty kill was up for the challenge. The Stars got off to a 3-0 start and never looked back against a good Tampa Bay team. Gavin wonders why...

For the 2nd time in 3 games, the Stars lose to Calgary but do pick up 3 out of 4 points on the road. What happened in Calgary and was it goalie interference? Spits and Suds explains why the Stars can't compete in the trade market right now plus a preview of Saturday's game against Tampa. 

Big news this week as one of the Dallas Stars top prospects Defenseman Lian Bichsel has decided to return to Sweden to play. Stephen Meserve who covers the Texas Stars for 100 degree hockey joins host Gavin Spittle to tell Stars fans not to hit the panic button. The guys also discuss Logan Stankoven, Mavrik Bourque, Goaltenders Matt Murray and Remi Poirier as well as Kyle McDonald, a 21 year old t...

The Stars get back on the winning track with a 2-0 win in Winnipeg. Two time Stanley Cup Champion Craig Ludwig joins Gavin Spittle to talk about this win. Craig played until he was 39 which is Joe Pavelski's current age. He gives the perspective on how the Stars forward is staying so effective. The guys also discuss the play of Mason Marchment, Matt Duchene, Jake Oettinger and they go around the N...