Obviously, the big news from “The Decision” today at the Allen Americans’ open house is that goaltender Chris Whitley is returning to the Allen Americans for a second season.  There’s more thoughts and reactions from Coach Mullins and a couple of his teammates upcoming, but I wanted to make sure the Americans’ press release...
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The Central Hockey League released the full schedule for the 2010-2011 regular season today, and the Allen Americans are going to be in for a heavy rotation of some of their favorite matchups. The Americans will start the season on October 15-16 with a two-game series against the rival Texas Brahmas at the Allen...
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As I mentioned earlier this morning in the BDH twitter feed, the Dallas Stars agreed to terms with Fabian Brunnstrom, hours before his arbitration hearing was about to start.  I’m pretty sure that Brunnstrom and his agent knew the arbitrator wasn’t going to be ruling in his favor, and took the pretty solid deal...
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The Texas Stars announced this morning that they had agreed to terms with rookie forward Cody Chupp for the 2010-2011 season.  Chupp, who played last year in the collegiate ranks with Ferris State, made a late-season debut with the Stars in March.  He played in nine regular season games, gathering one assist and two...
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Continuing a busy couple of days for the organization, the Dallas Stars got another depth guy under contract for the upcoming season.  The club agreed to a one-year contract with right wing Ray Sawada on Friday.  The contract for Sawada will be two-way, just as the ones for Lukowich, Fortunus, Ludwig, Morin, Gagnon and...
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As I promised last night, here is some more on the rumored signing of Brad Lukowich for the Stars.  Dallas has signed the veteran defenseman to a one-year contract for the upcoming season.  The contract is two-way, so there’s a good chance he’ll see time in the AHL with the Texas Stars.  He played...
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