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  1. Remember Fox Sports Southwest and all those type things when you had cable? They used to show less-than-interesting college games and other stuff? A lot of replays and last week's games. They were the home of the Stars and Rangers (and probably the Mavericks, but I don't care for pro bball). I'll spare you the saga of the monopoly-divesting-I-wanna-buy-ESPN stuff, but those networks got sold to Sinclair Media (political rant not included) who stuck them into Ballys. Ballys was a network that old people got on their cable networks when they couldn't figure out streaming. Since you can't make a profit off Feen-A-Mint commercials any more, that whole thing collapsed largely under the weight of the regional Diamond Media contracts that supported the Rangers and Stars. Once the courts were sufficiently assured that no one was coming to bail out Diamond, the NHL and MLB were glad to get those properties back to the franchises to do as they will. What they did was contract with a stand-alone app called "Victory+". It isn't a channel on your cable box. It's an app. They have native apps (you download and run them directly on your device) for Android, iOS, AppleTV, Roku, Amazon's FireOS (Firesticks and such), Samsung, and LG's WebOS (finally). Last season, the app worked great to stream Dallas Stars hockey, who chose to make it available for free (no guarantee they'll do it again next season, but hey). Obviously there's still advertisement breaks as usual. The Texas Rangers charged $99 for a season's worth. I don't usually watch much MLB, but the son-in-law is a fan, so I'm sure it'll come up. Download the app to your smart TV or device. Registration was painless, and I'm not getting spammed.
  2. Sometimes a good coach is just out of ideas for that particular group. The teams playing against him are familiar with his schemes. He's still a fantastic coach, but familiarity makes the act tough to improve on. Hard to deny the Stars have talent. Jim Nill doesn't seem like a guy who makes rash, petulant moves in the heat of the moment. It's likely a fresh set of eyes is just needed.
  3. Scary times because, yeah, DeBoer is one of the best in the business. It's also true that, in the salary cap era (read: when the Red Wings can't simply acquire every top player in the game), hockey coaches just seem to have a shelf life. DeBoer will be very successful with his next club, but has probably exerted as much influence as he could with the Stars. It'll be interesting to see how the players feel (of course, having the players too comfortable might be a criticism of DeBoer). Rantanen just tied himself to Dallas for quite a while. Stability might have been a factor. I was thinking Benn and Seguin might be in line to play on diminishing 1 year deals until they decided to transition to the front office. That might change now.
  4. Last night, Mattias Jannmark scored after a 96ft up pass that came from the corner of EDM's D-zone to the opposite corner blue line. A single entry pass from that point sprung him in for a clean look. If you're going to win the Conference Finals series, you can't allow those things. What I'm going to remember about this series is all the times the Oilers snapped precision passes through the O-zone that led to perfect one-timer shots. Contrast that to Dallas, who seemed to have to stop and dig every puck out of their skates, dust it off, then look up to see what was next. Edmonton just made the game move too fast and too precise to play like that. Roope's injury was mostly an unfortunate occurrence. It was properly whistled for the slash, but usually slashes like that are just annoying. Nurse just happened to catch him on a nerve or bone or something. The injury was real, but really random. In the same way, I'm still not sure how Hyman even made contact with Mush to end up with season ending surgery. Something just got hung up in the way when two players passed each other. That said, someone might likely take an extra whack at Mr. Nurse at some point next season.
  5. While I appreciate the pound of flesh, you have to be really careful about that in the playoffs. Deliberately trying to crack back at an Edmonton player (let's say Darnell Nurse for sake of argument) is unlikely to leave much of an impression. If it's something insane with an intent to send a message (Derian Hatcher is my favorite Star), then you're likely to draw a 5 minute major penalty and get that player suspended for a couple games. Anything else is probably just going to be a 2 minute minor penalty and go unnoticed by the target. In the regular season, you might be able to do that. In the playoffs, the score is just too important to casually feed Edmonton a PP. Now, one area where I'd like the Stars to improve is body mass on the front lines. We've got speed and skill. I think the playoff struggles would be helped by being able to forecheck with sufficient ferocity that we earn more turnovers and are able to punish opponents while still pretending to stay within the rules. Benn used to be able to do that, but he arrives long after he'd be useful these days.
  6. I'm excited to see what will become of Lian Bischel as he gains the confidence to realize he belongs in the NHL. When he reduces or eliminates the timid part of his game, opponents will need to scheme around him. He adds a more forceful but still skilled piece to our defensive game. Having Miro miss so many games really allowed some D to develop!
  7. Yeah, don't feed the trolls. Was just telling the wife that Florida won't respect McDavid. They make their money by assaulting every team they play, and Edmonton will be no different. Of the 5 best teams in the NHL, 4 of them are in the West. One of them is Florida. If you want the Cup, you have to beat them.
  8. Burn some sage in the building or something. Ever since the Vancouver comeback, we've been hockey lobotomized. Be back in September.
  9. We fight and fight, then some miraculous bullshit happens and the puck is in our net.
  10. Now they got a little bass in their voice!
  11. He fans in the one timer that Draisaitl blasts through the back of the net
  12. Well we can't seem to release a puck that we haven't possessed for at least 4 seconds
  13. Why are we pulling up on every check? Hit those guys!
  14. The high sticks were soft, but yeah, they were legit. Stripes didn't feel like calling anything else soft.
  15. Nothing to do with Otter. Sacrificed to get the team some life. Apparently, there's none to be had.
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