Re: tonight’s #Blackhawks – Dallas Stars game. In May 2018, the Rockford #IceHogs and Texas Stars met in the AHL Western Conf Final. 5 players from that Texas team (4 tonight) have skated for Dallas this year. Only David Kampf, from that @goicehogs team, is part of Chicago now….

Those 5 current @DallasStars players..
Roope Hintz (9g 2a)
Denis Gurianov (4g 4a)
Jason Dickinson (3g 4a)
Justin Dowling (3g 1a)
Joel L’Esperance (1g 0a)
.. have 30.3% of Dallas’ goals, and 18.4% of the Stars total points through 23 games at a total of $4,678,333 in salary cap $.

Only David Kampf (4g 2a, 22gp), Carl Dahlstrom (0g 0a, 10gp) and John Hayden (0g 0a, 9gp) from that ’18 #IceHogs playoff team have skated in the NHL so far this season. That Rockford team, coached by Jeremy Colliton, was bolstered/heavily reliant on veterans and 32.1% playoff PP.

Collin Delia, who rose to fame during that 2018 postseason before losing the net to Jeff Glass in the Texas series, has since fallen to 4th on the Hawks G depth chart, is struggling and ceding starts to Kevin Lankinen & Matt Tomkins now in Rockford. #IceHogs #Blackhawks

Texas defeated Rockford 4 games to 2 in what was a very tight series. Toronto then defeated Texas in 7 games in the AHL Calder Cup Final. Former #Blackhawks fwd Ben Smith was the Marlies’ captain and Sheldon Keefe, now Maple Leafs’ coach, led ’18 Calder Cup champs.

8 from that Marlies postseason roster play for NHL-Toronto this seas: Andreas Johnsson, Trevor Moore, Dmytro Timashov, Frederik Gauthier, Justin Holl, Travis Dermott, Pierre Engvall & Martin Marincin. Garret Sparks (Vegas) & Carl Grundstrom (LAK) also have played in NHL this yr.