Was at the game last night. Didn't pay close attention to his defensive play so perhaps it was brutal but offensively he is on another level than any other Dallas dman (not a huge compliment given what they have but i dont see him being taken off the PP anytime soon).

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I'm certainly hoping so, but after the last few highly-touted defensive prospects (ie. Vishnevskiy, Larssen), I'm going to have to see it to believe it.

With Dillon I can at least see something tangible. I'm hoping the same will be true for Oleksiak, because we don't need just one, particularly if we're seeing the last days of Robidas in a Stars uniform.

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RW: Gaborik, Callahan, C. Stewart, Tarasenko, Chiasson
D: Yandle, Doughty, Goligoski, Carlson
G: Fleury, Varlamov, Markstrom
IR:

This back-to-back issue has got to be a curse maybe? Somebody did something, said something, and the offended party hit the Stars with some old fashioned hoodoo? Answers are as hard to find as the wins themselves.

Here's Mike Heika's take on this problem...

http://starsblog.dallasnews.com/2013...to-backs.html/

One quote in there stood out above everything else. It was this...

So is this a coaching issue, or a player issue? You have the coach here saying they weren't ready, well that's your job as coach to have them ready. But there's also the point that quite a few of these guys are vets, they know what needs to be done to be ready. This is likely as not the old saying that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

But no matter what the answers to this are, they aren't going to come easy, something this broken is always tough to fix. But they have to come before this team can truly be a playoff contender. The Stars missed the playoffs by six points last season, and just improving to .500 in those back-to-backs last season would have been enough to get them over that hump. This season you can't afford these types of things if you have any hope of extending your season.

In other news Jamie Oleksiak was sent back down to Austin. No word on who will be recalled but speculation is Jordie Benn will be the one. I'm kind of surprised that it was the Big Rig and not Larsen that was sent down. Since no call-up has been announced it may mean whoever it is won't join the team until they return from Vancouver.

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That is indeed surprising that Oleksiak was sent down. You reckon it because of the 5-game rule or whatever?

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LW: Kovalchuk (RW), Vanek, Lucic
RW: Gaborik, Callahan, C. Stewart, Tarasenko, Chiasson
D: Yandle, Doughty, Goligoski, Carlson
G: Fleury, Varlamov, Markstrom
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It seems like it, last night was his fifth game. Still I think he's played better then Larsen has and why not allow him to continue. Oleksiak has looked more at ease with each game and I thought he was ready to start making some bigger strides.

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5 game rule only applies to junior eligible players

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G:Fleury, Dubnyk
Farm: Jarnkrok, Dumba, Sproul
IR: Spezza

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C: Benn[3], Ribeiro[1], Brassard[1], Shaw, Forsberg
LW: Ryan(LW)[4], Marleau[1], Schwartz,
RW: Sharp(C)[1], Bennett, Coyle(C)
D: Goligosk[4], Letang[3], Edler[2], Hamilton, Rielly
G:Rask[2], Bobrovsky[1], Fasth
IR: Spezza[2]

That was quite the embarrassing faux pas on my part. You are correct and I should have remembered that.

Oopsies aside, the answer was plain and simple ice time. They want Oleksiak getting big minutes and that wasn't going to happen in Dallas. Better for his development in the long run, and he can now take this taste of the NHL and go back to Austin and hone his skills. This was Nieuwy's exact quote...

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I've been following Larsen for a couple of years and have had him on my bench/farm basically taking up space - he seems to have been passed over by both Dillon and Oleksiak. What do you think are point potentials for these two guys? In one league I am considering dropping Larsen for Oleksiak that is multi-cat but heavily weighted to points (farm roster spot), and I already dropped Larsen for Dillon in another.

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G-Price,Rask,Dubnyk
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I think Dillon should be good for 30+, and Oleksiak should be a 40+ option on top of what should be really good peripherals.

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Big shake up coming tonight. Reilly Smith gets bumped up to Roy's line on the left-wing and Loui shifts back over to his familiar right-wing spot on that same line. Ryder get's bumped down to Eakin's line. More breakdown including Gulutzan's thoughts on the switch in this article from Mike Heika....

http://starsblog.dallasnews.com/2013...ond-line.html/

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