Stars coverage: Canadian style
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One of the great things about the Stars playing in Canada is the get some attention from the Canadian hockey media. Here’s a sample of what’s being written about the Stars in today’s Calgary Herald:
It opens this way:
Steve Ott is out. Sean Avery is in.
Kind of like that outbreak of psoriasis clearing up, only to find you’ve developed a particularly nasty case of hemorrhoids.
And then goes on to talk about the Stars woes in the first quarter of the season:
The D in Big D these days standing for doom, debacle and disillusionment.
You scan the standings over a Tim Horton’s double-double in the morning, and even now, a quarter of the way into the season, it still doesn’t seem within the realm of possibility.
The Dallas Stars, last in the Pacific Division and the Western Conference.
The Dallas Stars, last in the league with a 3.65 team GAA. Yes, the franchise of Ken Hitchcock, Guy Carbonneau, Mike Keane, Jere Lehtinen, Mike Modano, coach Dave Tippett himself—a virtual roll call of Selke Trophy recipients or contenders over the past 15 seasons—leaking goals at an unsightly pace, hemorrhaging on their own lack of commitment to the ingredient of the game they made their hallmark.
The Stars were recently selected Top Turkey on ESPN.com’s NHL U.S. Thanksgiving list.
As is so often the case, this fall from grace can’t be blamed on any one thing.
The entire article can be found here.
quite humerous.... iginla is not the saint he is made out to be.
Am I the only one who takes issue with Steve Ott’s treatment by the national and Canadian media? With the arrival of Avery, suddenly Ott is also a cancer to the team and/or the game. The trip through the north-east, particularly the Boston game, featured perhaps poor judgment by Ott, but I say it’s a disservice to explain him away with descriptions of Avery. One year Ott the lightning rod is the perfect fit for the Stars, the next year with the arrival of Avery and the “scrupulous” eye of TSN or ESPN and his game is perverse.