Welcome back to hockey. Thank goodness.
As far as previewing the Texas Stars, I would refer you to yesterday's article that outlined things from head coach Derek Laxdal's perspective with a bit of my analysis mixed in.
Here are the lines as run yesterday in practice:
Ranford-Morin-Stransky
Ully-Dowling-DeFazio
Elie-Smith-Gurianov
Troock-McMurtry-Van Brabant
Fyten
Backman-Bystrom
Honka-Bodnarchuk
Ebert-Mangene-Stevenson
Karjalainen
Lagace
DesrosiersThe Charlotte Checkers have been in a major state of flux over their training camp, only really getting a true picture of their team in the past few days.