For this week’s edition of Around the Stars universe (apparently it has become a weekly thing at this point) I’ve decided to cover two very different question marks regarding the Dallas Stars. The first one is seemingly more important, as it directly affects the on-ice performance of a single player. The second one is mostly fun.
So let’s get right to the first one:
In hockey, and especially in the salary cap era, performance of a player is specifically tied to what he is making, or to be more precise, how much he counts against the cap.