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Texas Hangs on for Win Over Houston, 4-3
Cedar Park, TX – The Texas Stars (35-22-3-4, 77 Points) defeated the Houston Aeros (29-28-6-2, 66 Points) 4-3 on Saturday night in front of 6,110 fans at Cedar Park Center. Rookie center Colton Sceviour broke a 3-3 tie, scoring the game-winning goal with 5:41 left in regulation. Forward Ray Sawada posted a Gordie Howe... »
Texas Stars Pull Out OT Victory Over Rockford IceHogs
Cedar Park, TX – The Texas Stars (34-22-3-4, 75 Points) defeated the Rockford IceHogs (37-18-1-5, 80 Points) 4-3 in overtime on Friday night in front of 5,878 fans at Cedar Park Center. Stars center Travis Morin scored 2:40 into overtime, leading Texas to its fifth win over the Hogs this season. Texas captain Landon... »
Texas Stars Forward Tyler Shelast Reassigned to Allen
As I mentioned on Twitter late last night when I saw the wire transaction, the Texas Stars today confirmed that right wing Tyler Shelast has been reassigned to the Allen Americans. While this may be a bit disappointing at first for Shelast, he has struggled with his game at the AHL level this year,... »
Changes to Big D Hockey!
I want to first thank you for taking a couple of minutes to read this piece about the upcoming changes to BDH. The changes will be pretty big, and if you follow us here, you will want to know where we’re headed with things! The other day I was going through some comments left on... »
Two Texas Stars in AHL All-Star Game
In addition to the news of the CHL All-Star Game rosters, there were also announcements about the AHL All-Star Classic rosters this last week. Two Texas Stars players have been named to the rosters, one for each team. The AHL All-Star Game format will consist of a “Canadian All-Star Team”, featuring all Canadian-born players,... »
Texas Stars Fall in Physical Game Against Peoria Rivermen
Chris Kennedy is a new contributor to Big D Hockey and I hope you’ll join me in welcoming him. He has offered to send us some insight and perspective on some of the Texas Stars games this season, and as it’s hard for BDH staff to cover the whole state, it’s something we gladly... »
Texas Stars’ Mathieu Beaudoin Named AHL Player of the Week
The Texas Stars announced that right wing Mathieu Beaudoin was named the AHL Player of the Week for last week. Beaudoin had five goals in three games, and was a big part of the T-Stars success last week, as the team was 3-0 on the road. Also up for consideration were Houston Aeros right... »
Americans Lose Heartbreaker to RiverKings
They’d practiced the play a hundred times, and worked on it as recently as that morning. When Derek Landmesser, a defenseman for the Mississippi RiverKings, shot the puck around the boards in the third period, Allen Americans goalie Chris Whitley went out to cut off the puck. Whitley expected to stop the puck and set... »
Americans Release Craig, Add Straub
The Allen Americans have released center Tom Craig to make room for defenseman Brandon Straub, who was assigned to the club by the Texas Stars, the Dallas Stars’ AHL affiliate. The Americans are the Stars’ CHL affiliate. I have hit all the high points of the release, but you can read it for yourself... »
Michael Neal Assigned to the Idaho Steelheads
Michael Neal, brother of the Dallas Stars’ promising forward James Neal, was sent from the Texas Stars to the Idaho Steelheads today. The Steelheads are the Stars’ ECHL affiliate. Here is the release: *** (Boise, ID) – The Idaho Steelheads made several roster moves on Monday as the team begins preparations for the regular-season opener Friday... »