Cedar Park, TX – The Texas Stars (36-22-3-4, 79 Points) defeated the Peoria Rivermen (30-27-2-6, 68 Points) 3-2 on Wednesday night in front of 3,909 fans at Cedar Park Center. Stars center Aaron Gagnon broke the 2-2 tie at 5:26 of the third period, leading Texas to its third win against the Rivermen this...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
