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Sean Shapiro and Cam Robinson combine to look at who will be in and who will be out at the best-on-best competition in February.

Yeah, it's already time to be thinking about this.

Sean Shapiro ranks the 15 best goalies going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

The tale of the tape for the Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers Western Conference Final series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Game 7 was fun, but it was far from a classic battle between two great teams.

The tale of the tape for the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche's second-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Round 1 is finally done and youngish American goalies stole the show.

The Dallas Stars are tied up in their series with the Vegas Golden Knights, and it's all because of a 20-year-old forward.

The tale of the tape for the Vegas Golden Knights and Dallas Stars first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Sean Shapiro takes a look around the NHL with the No. 1 teams in both the East and the West jockeying for top position.

Sean Shapiro take his weekly look at the NHL, focusing on the race in the Central Division.

Sean Shapiro takes his weekly look around the hockey work with Unnumbered Thoughts, starting with the goalie debate in New York.

Sean Shapiro takes his weekly look around the NHL, with a heavy focus from the All-Star Festivities in Toronto.

The Dallas Stars top offensive threat won't hit 100 points this season. But in the long run, that might be the best thing for Dallas this season.

Sean Shapiro bring his weekly look around the NHL, starting with the job rookie GM Daniel Brière has done thus far in Philadelphia.

Ryan Lambert's resolution for 2024? Being chill about my takes.

These may look like a standard power rankings, but you would be wrong, friend. These are the power feelings, and feelings can't be wrong.

Sean Shapiro brings you his collection of notes and observations from the week, starting with the importance of the Florida Panthers captain

Greg Balloch ranks the 15 best goaltenders in the NHL going into the 2023-24 season.

The Panthers goalie is one of the stories of the playoffs, a Conn Smythe favorite. But how should we be looking at his performance and what lessons should we apply?

The Dallas Stars are mounting a furious comeback from their 0-3 deficit to the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Final, and it's their depth that's leading the way.

I've got little crusties in my eyes. I'm yawning. I'm still wearing a floppy cap and nightgown.

Rinkside analytics columnist JFresh previews the Western Conference Final between the Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights.

The Stars and the Kraken meet for the first time in the NHL playoffs. JFresh breaks it down.

"Wow all the refs suck!" Okay and if they call the rulebook to the letter, the product sucks. There's no good answer here.

JFresh previews the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars first-round series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

They've been losing more than they'd like, but that's true of everyone in the West at some point this season.

Only EP Rinkside's Ryan Lambert knows the true 3 Stars of the week, and he shares them in this article.

This week's edition of the 3 Stars zeroes in on leaguewide parity, young stars betting on themselves, and Connor McDavid hitting his stride.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert looks at the Dallas Stars' salary cap situation with restricted free agents Jake Oettinger and Jason Robertson still unsigned.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert has standout performances and standout storylines from the third week of Stanley Cup Playoff action.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Flames eventually beat the Stars, and how the Lightning outlasted the Maple Leafs in round one.

The Dallas Stars are a team caught between two cores, one ageing out of its prime and another entering theirs. How they navigate those two faces of their team will determine their shot- and long-term outlook.

EP Rinkside goaltending expert Catherine Silverman previews every goalie matchup in the first round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Elite Prospects analytics columnist JFresh previews the Calgary Flames and Dallas Stars Western Conference quarterfinals playoff series.

You had questions, and Ryan Lambert had answers. This is the EP Rinkside mailbag. This week, Lambert answers questions concerning Jason Robertson, the Hobey Baker, the salary cap, and the trade deadline.

It seemed to some like the Dallas Stars run to the Stanley Cup Final in the 2020 playoff bubble was the first sign of an opening contention window. That window is now painted shut, and Stars GM Jim Nill has some tough decisions to make to get this team back on track.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert solicited your questions on Twitter, and now he's answering them in the latest edition of the Rinkside mailbag. Looking at Connor Bedard's ranking among all-time greats, Chicago's rebuild, Don Sweeney's job in Boston, Michigan's ranking as a stacked college team, and more.

This edition of Take Town looks at the changes to the executive suites in the Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks organizations, Trevor Zegras' ridiculous assist, the Edmonton Oilers depth problems, and which NHL clubs are catching fire.

The Dallas Stars have four goalies signed to $11.2 million against the cap, and it's a uniquely messy situation in their crease as a result. Ryan Lambert breaks it all down.

It's all happening much quicker than usual. For those of you in leagues that run two-week playoff matchups, we are quickly approaching the end of regular season play. That means...

We're giving JFresh a bit of a break from his Olympics preview series, as J.D. Burke fields a hypothetical Team North America roster for the 2022 games in Beijing.