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The Arizona Coyotes will be missing star defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson when they visit the Dallas Stars on Tuesday night at American Airlines Center. Ekman-Larsson was granted a leave of absence from the Coyotes on Monday after his mother passed away following a lengthy battle with cancer. Ekman-Larsson will miss the Coyotes' final three games. Continue to Article

April 03, 2017 9:12:pm EST

With no playoffs to look forward to, the Dallas Stars are stuck being spoilers. Jason Spezza scored, Kari Lehtonen earned his third shutout of the season and Dallas beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 on Saturday night. John Klingberg and Devin Shore added empty-netters and Lehtonen stopped 25 shots in his second shutout in six starts to help the Stars snap a two-game losing streak and deal a serious blow to the Hurricanes' already slim playoff chances. Continue to Article

April 01, 2017 10:30:pm EST

There probably hasn’t been enough made about the Dallas Stars’ unmitigated disaster of a season, going from 109 points and a division title to 73 points in 75 games thus far. Lambert took a hard look at what the Stars could and should do on the ice this offseason, but what about behind the bench? When the local media treat the firing of a head coach as a formality, one trends to treat it as such. Continue to Article

March 28, 2017 5:02:pm EST

Nine days ago, the San Jose Sharks were coasting toward a second straight Pacific Division title and perhaps thinking about a return to the Stanley Cup Final. Fresh off one of its worst losses, the Sharks hope to snap their longest skid of the season when they take on the Nashville Predators on Saturday night. With a 6-1 setback to the Dallas Stars on Friday, San Jose (42-25-7) has been outscored 16-5 while dropping five in a row, all in regulation. Continue to Article

March 25, 2017 3:19:am EST

On March 30, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA Special Assistant to the Executive Director Mathieu Schneider will be in Beijing, announcing that the Vancouver Canucks and the Los Angeles Kings will play two preseason games in China in September. First, because the NHL never puts its product in emerging non-hockey markets like this. Since Bettman became commissioner, the NHL has played games in London, Helsinki, Klagenfurt (Austria), Innsbruck (Austria), Stockholm, Salzburg (Austria), Berlin, Bern, Bratislava (Slovakia), Gothenburg (Sweden), Prague, Tampere (Finland), Zurich, Linköping (Sweden), Karlstad (Sweden), Mannheim (Germany), Belfast, Saint Petersburg, Liberec (Czech Republic), Malmö (Sweden), Riga, Zug (Switzerland) and Hamburg. Continue to Article

March 24, 2017 5:20:pm EST