Colin Blackwell

Yeah, it's interesting when you look at their roster this year in Dallas, using Dallas as an example, they have, I think, Florida signed Alex Petrovic and Nathan Bastian, and both of those players they put through waivers, so they're both going to be playing down in the minors.

Colin Blackwell, who hadn't played in the AHL for six years since before COVID, he's now in training camp down.

Our pal Steve Meserve reported he's down in training camp practicing with the Texas Stars.

These are all players that, you know, in prior seasons this probably was less of a concern but this is kind of the class of player that i think is is maybe going to suffer as the cap goes up because so much of that money is just going to go to those big names these are the players where you know what we just don't even have room to carry a full roster right these are players who might they're definitely nhl quality players yeah but so many teams can't even can't even fit 23 guys in their roster because now they're having to give so much to other people so It's a strange new world, but those considerations like you talked about are things that maybe fans don't always think about, but players and their agents have to think about because that's just something you don't want to get caught with a really low two-way contract.

That's for sure.

Now, Colin Blackwell as well was put on waivers.

He was not selected, which was fortunate.

So he is in the NHL along with R2Huru, and that's great for Blackwell, I suppose, although...

He's a good player.

Injuries are going to happen, and the Stars are going to need him at some point.

The Stars will need Colin Blackwell.

More than likely, they're going to need Artu Huru.

Oscar's back.

I got Colin Blackwell, Matthew Shane, Roderick Foxx.

Just to be clear, we forgot everybody he's about to let.

Cameron

The Dallas Stars certainly know who was going to be a part of the opening night lineup for the most part, I'd say 98% of the lineup, if not a hundred, was kind of already decided outside of what injuries may take place.

Now, an update on Matt Duchesne and Colin Blackwell.

So they both skated earlier today.

So that's great news.

in the Stars' bottom six, which is filled with a bunch of other defensive pieces, all who grade out really well in this.

Like you're talking about Radek Faksa, Joel Kiviranta, uh, Oskar Bach, Colin Blackwell, all of those guys.

But you're only getting, you know, absolute shutdown minutes if you're playing with those guys, right?

Mm-hmm.

I hope he's okay.

Well, anyways, on the same front, since we're talking about injuries, Colin Blackwell had to be helped off the ice earlier on Saturday for practice.

He wasn't playing in the Saturday game.

I guess it was reported that he was walking around and he was fine.

I was just like, okay, now I'm over it.

But...

Yeah, I mean, again, I know it's just Colin Blackwell, and he's just probably a fourth-line player, but this team this year does not have the same depth that they've had in years past.

I mean, we've had to get rid of guys and had to trade away young players, Stankoven and Bork, you know, respectively, in order to keep the core of this group together.