Radek Faksa is making good on the promise that most 1st round picks experience, but the Dallas Stars look primed to benefit in more subtle, but vital ways.
Opava is an obscure northern city in the Czech Republic. About the only real thing of note in this part of the world is that it was once part of a region that used to be so industrialized, it was called the 'Steel Heart of the Country' during the communist era.
Eventually the industrial sectors dissipated, and in the same year that Radek Faksa was born, the nearby city of Ostrava mined its last coal in 1994.