We’ll know soon enough which 23 players will start the season in the NHL for Dallas. Cuts will be announced, players will be passed through waivers (or claimed while on them), and we’ll all start to reconcile ourselves to the second Ken Hitchcock iteration of the Stars. This is a meaningless opening paragraph that is just saying “hockey is going to start soon,” which you already knew. Let’s talk about the defense.
All the most recent comments from Ken Hitchcock indicate that Jamie Oleksiak is starting the season as a Dallas Stars defenseman in the NHL, and significantly so.