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NHL’s Dallas Stars deliver tremendous DeBoer tweet

The Dallas Stars’ social media folks win Twitter on Friday

The Dallas Stars’ social media team was on target Friday.

After Alabama hired Washington coach Kalen DeBoer to replace Nick Saban, the Stars’ social team sensed an opportunity and nailed the one-timer.

The Stars’ coach is a DeBoer, however, Peter DeBoer. Someone with a brilliant touch found the perfect tweet.

Jakob Chychrun had a bloody good reason for skating to the Stars locker room for intermission

The defenseman explained why he switched locker rooms at intermission

A weird moment happened right as the first period concluded when the Dallas Stars hosted the Ottawa Senators on Friday night.

Just as the TV broadcast was heading to commercial to kick off intermission, cameras caught Senators defenseman Jakob Chychrun sauntering along with the Stars as they left their bench to head back to the home locker room.

This would’ve felt like a silly mistake, except the tunnel to the visiting locker room at American Airlines Center is much further down the ice near the goal line. And Chychrun sure didn’t look confused about why he wasn’t joining his teammates.

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Wait a minute 🤔 #nhl #nhlonsn #ottawasenators #dallasstars #jakobchychrun #hockeytiktoks

♬ Switching sides – Mr. America

Was the d-man the Senators acquired last March already fed up with his team? Did he get traded to the Stars mid-game? Was he trying to secure the game puck for Giannis Antetokounmpo?

As the theories ran wild online, Chychrun provided a completely acceptable answer that any hockey fan using Occam’s razor likely figured out right away: His face was totally gashed and required more serious medical attention.

Chychrun provided the evidence to prove it, too, and you may want to look away if you’re squeamish at all.

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via @jakobchychrun on Instagram

Yep! That’ll do it. That right there is a good reason for leaving your teammates mid-game.

But, listen, Chychrun did have three assists in the first period of the Senators’ eventual 5-4 loss, so who’s to say he didn’t also want the puck after his repairs?

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Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill made an incredible one-handed save against the Stars in Game 5

Goalie Adin Hill made the save of a lifetime for the Golden Knights on Saturday night.

Vegas Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill made one of the most beautiful saves you’re likely to see in the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs… or in any Stanley Cup playoffs for that matter.

As Dallas Stars winger Joel Kiviranta looked well-positioned to give his team the 3-2 advantage over Vegas in the third quarter, a falling Hill reached out his hand and blocked the shot right before it went into the goal.

It was a true last-second save for Hill, one that kept the game tied as the Golden Knights were trying to wrap up Game 5 of the Western Conference finals on Saturday night.

The level of difficulty on this save highlighted why elite goaltending is crucial in the playoffs. Hill showed why he’s a force to be reckoned with on the ice with this incredible stop.

The zoom-in just shows you how stunning Hill’s save really was.

It’s the kind of move that makes a season highlight reel now matter how the playoff series ends.

NHL fans couldn’t believe Jamie Benn’s explanation for a dirty crosscheck was the best he could do

NHL fans are NOT buying this.

Look, I get it: Jamie Benn has to give the angle on a dirty play he committed that will get him to avoid a suspension.

But these quotes? NHL fans aren’t buying them.

Let’s rewind: The Dallas Stars captain received a game misconduct and a five-minute major in the Game 3 loss against the Vegas Golden Knights for a cross-check to Mark Stone while the latter was laying on the ice.

It appeared from the video that Benn forcefully hit Stone in the head with a cross check, but what did Benn say about it? That he “would’ve liked not to fall on him and I guess use my stick as the landing point.”

People aren’t buying that as Benn faces a hearing with NHL Player Safety. Check out the reaction below:

Nicolas Hague laughed at Max Domi for trying to fight him during Golden Knights’ rout of Stars

The Dallas Stars were NOT having a good Tuesday night.

Things are not going very well for the Dallas Stars during Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.

The team fell behind 4-0 in the game’s second period in front of the home crowd, and Stars center Max Domi couldn’t even pick a fight on the ice without Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Nicolas Hague laughing at him.

Domi hit Hague with a nasty shot as the two were going for the puck, and something Hague did after the hit caused Domi to approach him for a shove and an on-ice scuffle.

However, Hague didn’t really fight back as much as get a good laugh in Domi’s quarreling. The Vegas defenseman even jawed a bit at Domi as the two left the ice and threw a thumbs up his way.

Ouch. It’s bad enough that Hague clearly wasn’t into fighting with Domi like the latter wanted. It’s absolutely brutal for Domi that Hague started laughing at how ridiculous the whole situation was.

Things got so rough for Dallas that Stars fans started throwing trash on the ice to display their displeasure in the team’s performance.

Unless the Stars rallied in the third period, they’d go down 3-0 in the Western Conference playoff series with a possible elimination game on the horizon.

The Stars at night were not big and bright, and the whole vibe in the arena showed it.

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Stars captain Jamie Benn rightfully tossed from Game 3 early for terribly unnecessary cross-check

Jamie Benn deserved to be ejected from the game after this horrendous cross-check.

This isn’t what you want to see from your captain in a must-win playoff series.

On Tuesday, the Dallas Stars were hosting the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final. After losing both games on the road in Vegas, the Stars looked to get off on a better foot at home in front of a Dallas crowd. Instead, captain Jamie Benn took himself out of the game mere minutes in after an extremely unnecessary cross-check.

With less than two minutes gone by in the first period and the Stars already down 1-0, Benn laid a hit into Mark Stone. The Stars captain then gave Stone a rough cross-check to the face while the Vegas player was down on the ice, drawing a five-minute major and a game misconduct on the play.

Benn very well could get another game or two on top as well given how reckless this cross-check was. And on the ensuing five-minute power play, the Golden Knights scored to double their lead. By first period’s end? The Stars were facing a 3-0 deficit and one of their leaders carelessly took themselves out of the game.

NHL fans tore into Benn for the reckless cross-check that cost the Stars one of their best players in Game 3.

NHL fans were furious after Matt Dumba’s vicious hit on Joe Pavelski only drew a minor penalty

Should Matt Dumba be suspended for this hit on Joe Pavelski?

The 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs aren’t even a day old and already there’s controversy brewing.

On Monday, the Dallas Stars were hosting the Minnesota Wild in Game 1 of the first round of the playoffs. With the Stars up 2-1 late in the second period as the team was moving deep into the offensive zone, Joe Pavelski was rocked by a hit from Matt Dumba that send both teams into a frenzy.

On the play, Dumba backed into Pavelski with a violent hit that caught him high in the shoulder, causing the Stars’ forward to fall hard on the ice. Pavelski had to be helped off the ice after the hit and did not return for the remainder of the second period.

Originally, Dumba was given a five-minute major for the hit, but after review — which is a new rule this season — the Wild defenseman was given a two-minute minor for roughing instead.

You never want to see a player go out with an injury like that, especially on a brutal hit from Dumba that felt unnecessarily late. We’ll have to see if Dumba is given extra from the Department of Player Safety, but given the ferocity of the hit, it feels like a suspension could very well be in the cards.

NHL fans were absolutely irate that Dumba’s vicious hit on Pavelski was downgraded to a minor penalty.

Stars goalie Scott Wedgewood makes bizarre shoulder save to prevent Jets goal

Shoulder save!

Dallas Stars goalie Scott Wedgewood took his job to keep the puck out of the goal very seriously Tuesday night against the Winnipeg Jets.

The Stars and Jets entered Tuesday’s game toward the top of the Central Division, with both teams very eager to snag two points.

On a Blake Wheeler shot to the net for the Jets, the puck took a weird bounce off the stick and somehow landed on Wedgewood’s shoulder to prevent the goal.

It looked like a slick move on Wheeler’s behalf until gravity and physics sided with Wedgewood, who sported the puck on his shoulder like a chatty parrot flanking a friendly pirate.

They say that the puck doesn’t lie, and in this case, the puck does lie, just on Wedgewood’s shoulder.

After all, the goalie’s Twitter handle is “@wedgewall,” which was apt on this insane save.

If the Stars really want to make hay in the Western Conference, they should keep a chip on their shoulder for the rest of the year, or at the very least, a few more pucks on Wedgewood’s.

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Former Notre Dame Players in NHL to Begin 2020-21 Season

The NHL finally drops the puck on its 2020-21 season Wednesday. With COVID-19 still running rampant, this will be a season unlike any other.

The NHL finally drops the puck on its 2020-21 season Wednesday. With COVID-19 still running rampant, this will be a season unlike any other. Teams will play 56 games in divisions that drastically have been realigned for the season, and teams will not play outside their respective divisions. But no matter which team you root for, there will be plenty of players who suited up for Notre Dame before they ascended to hockey’s highest level.

Should Stanley Cup winner get an asterisk? Former goalie weighs in

SportsPulse: Mackenzie Salmons sits down with former NHL goalie and NHL Network analyst Kevin Weekes to discuss the level of play during the Stanley Cup Finals and whether or not the winner should have an asterisk in the record books.

SportsPulse: Mackenzie Salmons sits down with former NHL goalie and NHL Network analyst Kevin Weekes to discuss the level of play during the Stanley Cup Finals and whether or not the winner should have an asterisk in the record books.