Spits & Suds Podcast

Spits and Suds is live in Washington DC with Dallas Stars Senior Staff Writer Mike Heika to talk about the Stars hot start. Hockey News has the Stars ranked 1st in their power rankings. Gavin and Mike discuss the power play and the players and coaches thoughts on improvement. Mike's thoughts on the Stars impressive 4th line featuring Colin Blackwell, Sam Steel and Oskar Bäck. Should the Stars negotiate with Jake Oettinger's camp now? Why Alexander Petrovic got the call up with Matt Dumba's injury and more. 

Casey DeSmith shuts out the Seattle Kraken in his Stars debut. Dallas scored back to back goals in the first period and played stellar defense in a 2-0 win. Host Gavin Spittle is joined by Robert Tiffin from the AAC to recap the win. Robert breaks down the line pairings and how they worked out well in this game. Then the guys answer tweets from listeners.

Gavin and Robert answer questions sent in by listeners after the Stars 2-0 win over Seattle.

Casey DeSmith shuts out the Seattle Kraken in his Stars debut. Dallas scored back to back goals in the first period and played stellar defense in a 2-0 win. Host Gavin Spittle is joined by Robert Tiffin from the AAC to recap the win. Robert breaks down the line pairings and how they worked out well in this game.

The Stars win the home opener against the New York Islanders. Host Gavin Spittle recaps the win and talks about the play from Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn and Jake Oettinger. He points out the improvements from game one to game two as the Stars lowered the faceoff differential and penalty minutes. Gavin looks at the player minutes and makes note of another game for Nils Lundkvist getting less than 15 minutes on ice. Gavin reads some tweets about the struggles people are having with Victory+ and shares the struggles he had as well. 

Gavin talks about Jake Oettinger and how the Stars should be agressive in re-signing Jake Oettinger as he has been incredible for this team in net.

Gavin reads some tweets about the struggles people are having with Victory+ and shares the struggles he had as well.

The Stars win the home opener against the New York Islanders. Host Gavin Spittle recaps the win and talks about the play from Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn and Jake Oettinger. He points out the improvements from game one to game two as the Stars lowered the faceoff differential and penalty minutes. Gavin looks at the player minutes and makes note of another game for Nils Lundkvist getting less than 15 minutes on ice.

Stars win the opener but host Gavin Spittle thinks the Predators were the better team in this game. He makes mention of the faceoff differential, the shot differential and the penalties. The reason they were able to overcome all of those things, Jake Oettinger. He questions the three Stars from the game tonight and how they were chosen and talks about things that need to be fixed for Saturday night’s game. Gavin questions why only 12 minutes for Nils Lundkvist in this game. He goes through tweets sent in by listeners. 

Gavin goes through tweets sent in by listeners.