Stargazing: A Dallas Stars Puckcast | Defending Big D

The Dallas Stars have made it through yet another impossible COVID-compressed string of games, and they came out the other side with...hope? Is that what we’re experiencing?... But the Victory Green Gang has to keep moving through the #Disco if they want to make the biggest dance of all. Wes and Logan take a moment to measure how far they’ve come – and that crucial distance that remains. In this e...

When we started recording last night’s Stargazing, the Chicago Blackhawks were down 4-1 to the Nashville Predators in the third period. Life moves pretty fast, as the philosopher once observed, and the Preds’ reversal of fortune is now a matter of fairly brutal public record. It only takes a minute – well, a few great games – for a season to change. And now that everything’s a playoff series, the...

The Dallas Stars can’t win a Stanley Cup playoffs spot in the next six games. However, they can lose one. It will all come down to whether they can shake off whatever bad mojo they’re dealing with and make that move to shut down the suffering Columbus Blue Jackets and Detroit Red Wings. But honest-to-Pete elites Ben Bishop and Alexander Radulov are done for the season, and depth defender Sami Vata...

The Texas Stars head coach Neil Graham the big team’s next breakout homegrown prospect? And what the heck is wrong with a league that can’t find space for pure offensive players? Do you ever think you just need to talk more crap about your favorite players to get them going? You’re among friends here. And you can also be part of the next Stargazing. Post your puck questions in the comments, at Def...

If you look too hard at the standings, you might miss one of the truly hopeful facets of the Dallas Stars’ season to date. That’s the bumper crop of defensive depth blossoming everywhere in the organization, from Thomas Harley to Ben Gleason. Mark Zimmerman sits in as Wes’ special guest to discuss what’s going on all over the Stars organization. On the menu: Are Miro Heiskanen and Jamie Oleksiak t...

Alexander Radulov is back, and he’s brought his mojo with him. And not a moment too soon, because the Dallas Stars need it more than ever. That’s where we are. Which way is this headed? We’re halfway into March, and Wes and Logan have takes. Oh, so many takes: Are the Stars...bad now? Or are they good, but strangely and specifically made? Was it a good idea to keep playing low-event hockey with so...

The Dallas Stars began the month of March with back-to-back shutouts at the hands of Andrei Vasilevskiy and the Tampa Bay Lightning. If it feels like you’ve seen this before, it’s probably because they’ve been rehearsing for this humiliation throughout the month of February. Wes and Logan talk about a Stars-crossed month – and find a path that leads the Victory Green Gang to a better place by Apri...