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| City: | Cedar Park, Texas |
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| League: | American Hockey League |
| Conference: | Western Conference |
| Division: | West Division |
| Founded: | 2009 |
| Home arena: | Cedar Park Center (under construction) |
| Colors: | Green, Light Green, Gold, Black |
| Owner(s): | Hicks Cedar Park LLC |
| General manager: | Scott White |
| Head coach: | Glen Gulutzan |
| Affiliates: | Dallas Stars (NHL) Idaho Steelheads (ECHL) Allen Americans (CHL) |
The Texas Stars are an announced American Hockey League team. They will begin play in Cedar Park, Texas in the 2009-10 AHL season. [1][2]
The team will be the top affiliate of the NHL Dallas Stars. In April 2008, the Iowa Stars announced that they would no longer affiliate with the Dallas Stars, and changed the team's nickname to Chops for the 2008-09 season.[3] For the 2008-09 season, Dallas made agreements to send their AHL prospects to four other teams, while a few remained with the Chops. [4] AHL teams which the Dallas Stars sent prospects to were the Hamilton Bulldogs, Manitoba Moose, Peoria Rivermen, and Grand Rapids Griffins.[5]
On April 28, 2009, the AHL granted the Texas Stars limited membership into the league. The limited membership is conditioned on the completed purchase of an existing AHL franchise within one year.[6][7]
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[edit] Current players in the system
Players currently under contract for the Dallas Stars playing in leagues other than the NHL.[8]
As of 30 December 2008[update]:
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| # | Player | Catches | Date of birth | Place of birth | |
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Richard Bachman | L | July 25, 1987 | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1 |  |
Tyler Beskorowany | L | April 28, 1990 | Sudbury, Ontario |
| 33 | |
Matt Climie | L | February 11, 1983 | Leduc, Alberta |
| - | |
Pat McGann | R | January 27, 1987 | Evergreen Park, Illinois |
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| # | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | |
| - | |
Mike Bergin | L | June 30, 1988 | Kanata, Ontario |
| 27 | |
Maxime Fortunus | L | June 28, 1983 | Longueil, Quebec |
| - |  |
Philip Larsen | R | December 7, 1989 | Esbjerg, Denmark |
| - | |
Trevor Ludwig | L | May 24, 1985 | Grapevine, Texas |
| 37 | |
Garret Stafford | R | January 28, 1980 | Los Angeles, California |
| 55 |  |
Ivan Vishnevskiy | L | February 18, 1988 | Barnaul, Russia |
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| # | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | ||
| 70 | |
Jamie Benn | L | July 18, 1989 | Victoria, BC | |
| 61 | |
Aaron Gagnon | R | April 24, 1986 | Quesnel, BC | |
| 52 | |
Luke Gazdic | L | July 25, 1989 | Toronto, Ontario | |
| 32 | |
Sergei Korostin | L | July 5, 1989 | Prokopievsk, Russia | |
| 54 | |
John Lammers | L | January 29, 1986 | Bowmanville, Ontario | |
| 32 |  |
Perttu Lindgren | L | August 26, 1987 | Tampere, Finland | |
| - | |
Michael Neal | L | April 3, 1989 | Whitby, Ontario | |
| 53 |  |
Ondrej Roman | L | April 8, 1989 | Ostrava, Czech Republic | |
| - | |
Nico Sacchetti | R | August 21, 1989 | Virginia, Minnesota | |
| 12 | |
Raymond Sawada | R | February 19, 1985 | Richmond, BC | |
| 57 | |
Colton Sceviour | R | April 20, 1989 | Red Deer, Alberta | |
| 23 | |
Tyler Shelast | R | December 26, 1984 | Kelowna, BC | |
| - | |
Austin Smith | R | November 7, 1988 | Dallas, Texas | |
| 42 | |
Matthew Tassone | L | September 28, 1989 | Edmonton, Alberta | |
| 23 |  |
Tom Wandell | L | January 29, 1987 | Sodertalje, Sweden | |
| 58 | |
Francis Wathier | L | December 7, 1984 | St. Isidore, Ontario | |
| - | |
Matt Watkins | L | Nov 22, 1986 | Regina, Saskatchewan | |
| - |  |
Scott Winkler | R | February 22, 1990 | Asker, Norway | |
[edit] Leadership
[edit] Head coach
Glen Gulutzan [9]
[edit] Team captain
- TBD
[edit] General manager
- Scott White (since November 2008)[10]
[edit] Team president
- Rick McLaughlin (since June 2008)[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Lorenz, Andrea (February 21, 2008). "Events center deal will bring Dallas Stars affiliate to Cedar Park". Austin American-Statesman: p. B03.
- ^ Watson, Gregg (February 20, 2008). "Cedar Park leaders praise planned events center". KEYE-TV. http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=a29b2e94-a5ce-48bb-ae58-fd426a73351e. Retrieved on February 21, 2008.
- ^ "Iowa Stars and Dallas End Affiliation Agreement". OurSportsCentral.com. April 25, 2008. http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3629833. Retrieved on May 9, 2008.
- ^ Krieser, John (July 29, 2008). "Stars have high hopes for kids". DallasStars.com. http://stars.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=369118&page=NewsPage&service=page. Retrieved on October 15, 2008.
- ^ Stetson, Mike (October 6, 2008). "Steelheads' lost affiliate creates new situation". Idaho Press-Tribune. http://www.idahopress.com/sports/?id=14712. Retrieved on October 15, 2008.
- ^ Barnes, Dan (April 28, 2009). "Austin, Abbotsford, Glens Falls joining AHL in 2009-10". Edmonton Journal. http://theahl.com/headlines/index.html?article_id=9993. Retrieved on April 29, 2009.
- ^ Heika, Mike (April 29, 2009). "Texas Stars to play in Cedar Park next season". The Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/hockey/minors/stories/042909dnspohockeyaustin.3efae69.html.
- ^ "in the system". http://stars.nhl.com. January 8, 2009. http://stars.nhl.com/team/app?service=page&page=TeamPlayers&type=prospect. Retrieved on January 8, 2009.
- ^ http://stars.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=425795
- ^ "White to Head Texas Stars". dallasstars.com. November 23, 2008. http://stars.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=393990. Retrieved on January 1, 2009.
- ^ "Cedar Park Event Center Breaks Ground". dallasstars.com. June 10, 2008. http://stars.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=365545. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Texas Stars official website
- Texas Stars FAQ at DallasStars.com
- Cedar Park Center website
- American Hockey League
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