Texas Stars and prospects thread

[Jason]

Team articles.
Schedule
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Maxime Fortunus was named the team's captain.

Roster to open the season.
Forwards Alex Chiasson, Cody Eakin, Matt Fraser, Luke Gazdic, Scott Glennie, Mike Hedden, Travis Morin, Toby Petersen, Antoine Roussel, Colton Sceviour, Austin Smith, Reilly Smith, Mathieu Tousignant, Taylor Vause, Tomas Vincour and Francis Wathier
Defensemen Cam Barker, Jordie Benn, Jace Coyle, Brenden Dillon, Maxime Fortunus, Hubert Labrie, Patrik Nemeth, Jamie Oleksiak, and Tyler Sloan
Goalies Jack Campbell and Cristopher Nihlstorp

[CycloneGU]

Here is my entire knowledge on the Texas Stars organization:

[Stars2099]

Fortunus is the captain?


Texas Stars are your 2013 AHL champs

[SaintAngerBH]

I just realized former Stars defenseman Doug Lidster, who played like 3 games in 98-99, is an assistant coach for the Texas Stars.

[ScubaSteve]

Recent evidence indicates that hockey is never going to work in Texas.

[ToddM]

They went 3-0 in the preseason with a few blowouts, for whatever that's worth.

[CycloneGU]

They went 3-0 in the preseason with a few blowouts, for whatever that's worth.

Hello last place.

Cyclone

[ScubaSteve]

They Jon Sim'd the *poo poo* out of that preseason.

[Jason]

Fortunus scores the Stars first goal of the season.

[Stars2099]

*f-bomb* yeah he did. Anyone got a stream?

[The Frugal Gourmet]

I heard he was very Fortunate.

[CycloneGU]

I just realized no one created a GDT for what would have been this season's first Dallas Stars game. You lazy bums. We need better thread creators here.

[SaintAngerBH]

The Dallas who?

[CycloneGU]

The Dallas who?

Exactly.

[B Kat]

I heard he was very Fortunate.

Fortunate to the Max.

[starsfan18]

I'm pretty sure I walked by Gully on the suite level at the AT&T Center last night, but having never seen him in person (other than at a large distance during Dallas games), I wasn't quite sure. If it was him, he looked pretty bored.

[B Kat]

The Texas Stars started Nilstrop in their first game. Interesting.

[slaps]

Cambell is a bust. Should have gotten Fowler.

[B Kat]

Glennie seems to be the bigger bust. (Who wasn't even in the lineup) Should have taken Mangus Parvej.
Campbell has barely scratched the surface, and he's a goalie, they take longer to ripen.

[SaintAngerBH]

I've only seen Campbell once, and it was at the end of a 3 day in-a-row stint, but he looked pretty good to me.

[CycloneGU]

Cambell is a bust. Should have gotten Fowler.

Was it the Justin Bieber music that rendered this decision?

Cyclone

[Troy McClure]

Glennie seems to be the bigger bust. (Who wasn't even in the lineup) Should have taken Mangus Parvej.
Campbell has barely scratched the surface, and he's a goalie, they take longer to ripen.

And that is the difficulty of picking 17 and 18 year old kids with a #11 pick. The boom to bust ratio at that spot is a significant drop off from the top five where it's still not possible to get it right.

I'm super disappointed that the Glennie (and possibly Campbell) pick has been a waste. It sucks. This team dragged us through *poo poo* for four seasons, and it's not even like the higher draft picks are turning into awesome successes. For all of that horrible play and missing the playoffs, you'd like to think that you at least got some star players out of the draft, and so far, I'm not exactly overwhelmed with what those four years of *poo poo* have produced in the draft.

[Jason]

The Texas Stars started Nilstrop in their first game. Interesting.

Not really, since they're playing back to back and they were going to use both goalies. Makes sense to start Campbell in the home opener, while giving Nihlstorp his first start on the road.

Tonight after two the Stars are tied 1-1, Eakin with the goal and Campbell's playing very good. Reilly Smith is also standing out.

[starsfan18]

Glennie seems to be the bigger bust. (Who wasn't even in the lineup) Should have taken Mangus Parvej.
Campbell has barely scratched the surface, and he's a goalie, they take longer to ripen.

And that is the difficulty of picking 17 and 18 year old kids with a #11 pick. The boom to bust ratio at that spot is a significant drop off from the top five where it's still not possible to get it right.

I'm super disappointed that the Glennie (and possibly Campbell) pick has been a waste. It sucks. This team dragged us through *poo poo* for four seasons, and it's not even like the higher draft picks are turning into awesome successes. For all of that horrible play and missing the playoffs, you'd like to think that you at least got some star players out of the draft, and so far, I'm not exactly overwhelmed with what those four years of *poo poo* have produced in the draft.

I'm optimistic about Oleksiak and Faksa.

[SaintAngerBH]

I'm optimistic about Benn. I think he's going to be awesome.

[CycloneGU]

I'm optimistic about Benn. I think he's going to be awesome.

Who?

[Jason]

Charlotte Checkers 3, Texas Stars 4 in SO
Shots Checkers 30, Stars 43
PP's Checkers 2/6, Stars 1/7

Campbell 27 saves on 30 shots, 8 saves on 9 shootout attempts

2. TEX Eakin, (1) (Vincour, Smith), 17:50
3. TEX Barker, (1) (Vincour), 7:28 (PP)
3. TEX Eakin, (2) (Roussel, Oleksiak), 15:18 (SH) (Tied the game at 3)

Matt Fraser and Jordie Benn has the two shootout goals for the Stars.

Reilly Smith-Cody Eakin-Tomas Vincour is the top line

[The Frugal Gourmet]

I'm optimistic about Eakin.

[wonko80]

Vincour and his hands of gold will just inflate Eakin's stats and tease us.

[The Frugal Gourmet]

It appears that Eakins has the hands. Hard to believe he has a smoother touch than Vincour, though.