The Dallas Stars could be the team to beat in 2022. Youe going to hear that a lot during the offseason, in part because 2021 will be an extra-long summer for the Victory Green Gang. But does this new clich have the advantage of being true Stars senior staff writer Mike Heika has devoted his latest piece to a freeform exploration of that possibility. He starts off with a few thoughts about the defense-vs. -offense mind puzzler:Of the top 13 teams in goals-against average during the regular season, only Dallas (eighth at 2. 64) didn make the playoffs. The Golden Knights, Avalanche and Islanders were top three. Now, you can say that both Vegas and Colorado are great offensive teams, but the Islanders finished 21st in scoring at 2. 71 goals per game, which was worse than Dallas (18th at 2 https://www.denverproshoponline.com/Andre_Mintze_Flag-261. 79). To be fair, the top 14 scoring teams made the playoffs. However, eight of those teams were eliminated in the first round, and much was made of their inability to score goals in the postseason. So, is there a different kind of hockey played in the playoffs, and do teams that lean toward too much offense get shut down too easilyIt worth discussing. There also the possibility that some things happen for a reason, or several. Heika considers the consequences of losing a few key players, and it leads him directly to the rise of Robo:One of the reasons all of that has been bouncing around my brain is because so many people like to look at former Stars players excelling in the playoffs and then ponder if they shoulde kept them or if they shoulde developed them better. You can make arguments for each player. Valeri Nichushkin is a regular in a great Colorado lineup, and many believe the Stars dropped the ball on the former first-round pick. But Nichushkin has three points in 10 playoff games this year, and I not sure he was ever going to be good in Dallas. I think the best argument is the Stars shoulde realized that earlier and traded him when he had value. Fans also are bemoaning the fact the Stars let both Mattias Janmark and Corey Perry get away in the offseason P.J.Locke T-Shirt. While it true both are having solid playoff years (Janmark with seven points in nine games for Vegas and Perry with six points in 11 games for Montreal), keeping both around woulde likely meant that Jason Robertson didn get the chance he did this season. Ready to let your mind wander There more at Mike place https://www.denverproshoponline.com/Albert_Okwuegbunam_Flag-249. [Dallas Stars]Stars StuffYou probably saw this coming, but now it official: Stephen Johns has retired from playing. On and off the ice, your hard work and dedication inspired us allThank you for everything, stjohns28 As for his future plans. . . how this, for startersThe next chapter starts tomorrow. Meanwhile, Andrew Cogliano 34th birthday was yesterday, but it not too late to wish him a happy one. HBD, Cogs!
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You have probably seen the video. Andrew McCutchen reaching up to two young Pirates fans after the Bucs5-2 win over the Padres onMay 30 in San Diego.Roger McCreary, his wife, Stephanie, and two sons,12-year-old Christopher and eight-year-old Elijah, went crazy from Row A in centerfield at Petco Park.Christopher sporting his dads yellow Pirates jersey screamed out "I love you!" to his favorite player.MORE: | What you didn't know was how impactful the moment truly was.Rogerhas been battling life-threatening health i sues and often thinks of how much Andre Burakovsky Jersey longer he has left with his family.But for that brief moment, there was no focus on the future or how many more Pirates games Roger has left to see. It was only the joy on his sons' faces.I had no clue (McCutchen was coming), and there was a San Diego Padres fan next to me who alerted us and pointed, Roger McCreary told Sporting News. We turned and I got dizzy. I was like oh my goodne s.Your browser does not support iframes.Roger McCreary should have chosen the Dodgers. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, and his mother, brother and sister were all Dodgers fans. As an eight-year-old boy, he made a trip with a friend to Dodger Stadium that had him trade in his white and blue for black and gold.We had gone to Dodger Stadium, and we got there early for batting practice, McCreary said. Washington Capitals Jersey Roberto Clemente was standing against the batting cage and my friend pointed him out and said, That guy right there, number 21, is the best all-around player in baseball. From there, I just took a liking to Clemente and the Pirates.A liking was putting it mildly Alexander Alexeyev Jersey it was a pa sion.Everybody that knows me knows that its God at number one, my mother is number two, and the Pirates at number three. Thats my team.That love of baseball and the Bucs was pa sed on to Christopher and Elijah, and it didnt take long before they were wearing their fathers old gear and rooting for the likes of McCutchen and Starling Marte, who threw the family a ball in the seventh inning of the game against the Padres.Those jerseys were my jerseys 30 years ago, McCreary said. I kept them and pa sed them down. I wore those at Dodger Stadium. I told them when they get older and they have sons to pa s them down.To share the excitementas his sonstouched the hand of the man they call "Cutch"was something McCreary described as totally euphoric.Just to see it through my boys was a feeling I cant even describe, McCreary said. It was just the highest euphoria you can feel. Just to see him coming toward us, it was surreal. Even when I look at the tape now, it was just surreal.They looked like some old-school kids with those unis, McCutchen told the . It reminded me of watching a Jackie Robinson movie when you see some little kids at the ballpark. I thought Braden Holtby Jersey it was pretty neat, all the way out here in San Diego, to have some kids and their family cheering us on.Roger,who is keeping the type of illne s private,never made it to Three Rivers Stadium. He still wants to get out to PNC Park. He hopes Mike Gartner Jersey to make it to his 55th birthday in November. Regardle s of what happens in Rogers future, he holds that brief moment in San Diego close to his heart.My present health i sue is what made it that much more special, McCreary said. Heres this moment. Everything happened, it was kind of weird, slow and fast at the same time."Its a moment that wont be repeated, but it will be in my mind and my kids minds that I can leave with them.Game time... And a meeting with Andrew McCutchenPosted by on Sunday, May 31, 2015