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David Castillo

@DavidCastilloAC

Hockey yapper, MMA, sci-fi, pigs, Octavia Butler's prose, and Andy Gibb's guitar. Proper DMs: davidcastillo1981 at gmail. https://t.co/Czj1tOhfBM

Fort Worth, TX Katılım Temmuz 2011
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D Magazine
D Magazine@DMagazine·
After three consecutive conference finals appearances, Dallas went home in the opening round of the NHL playoffs. Here’s why the Stars got upset, and what must come next. @DavidCastilloAC dmagazine.com/sports/2026/05…
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
@TroyTMcClure It's almost like you can get the exact same faceoff performance for minimum wage (cough, Hyry).
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Troy McClure
Troy McClure@TroyTMcClure·
@DavidCastilloAC And we also don't need the team and broadcast telling us how valuable Faksa is with faceoffs when he only won 42.1% in the series against the Wild.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
Also, I know it's a little unfair to give smoke to the penalty killers. And I agree. You need forwards who can effectively play on the penalty kill. But you don't need forwards who can *only* effectively play on the penalty kill.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
@PatrickHayslip Agreed. It's a very atypical autopsy but it doesn't make any less true: Dallas' best players were largely their best players. The rest gave them zero support.
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🅿️atrick Hayslip
🅿️atrick Hayslip@PatrickHayslip·
@DavidCastilloAC You and I have spoken about this before and this year was especially evident. The entire bottom 6 was essentially PKers. The worst upside-skill ceiling to baseline defensive floor ratio in several years. The lack of a 3rd line that could score was a key reason for the 1st rd exit
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
I know Simmons is getting a lot of credit for bringing the smoke to Chayka and Pelley, but he's also been a boomer edgelord for years. Sure, you can never trust the Leafs, especially this braintrust, but there are just a handful of dudes that can effectively GM anyway.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
@CobrastanGuy I'm (obviously) the opposite. But I think do think there's still some deep runs in the near future. Just not next season.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
My latest: The Dallas Stars went backwards this year. Except for a brief post-Olympic stretch, they never found a rhythm. That didn't happen by accident, which contextualizes why their first-round failure wasn't an accident. dmagazine.com/sports/2026/05…
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Mike Piellucci
Mike Piellucci@mikelikessports·
All season long, @DavidCastilloAC was nervous about this Stars team. Wrote it on our site. Said it on our show. Stuck to it. And he was right. This is the piece you need to read following the Minnesota series, about what went wrong & what must come next: dmagazine.com/sports/2026/05…
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
5-3 on my predictions. Not awful. Not great. Utah let me down the most.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
Logan Stankoven, noblemen and magistrates. What a guy. What a run.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
We can talk about a culture problem in Dallas all we want. But it's hard to know meaningful reasons for why that might be. Conversely, we can discover very meaningful things about how Dallas, coaching, and personnel failed on the ice. Any serious analysis starts with the latter.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
Mattias Samuelsson turning into Phil Kessel has to be one of the strangest development curves of any player I've ever seen.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
A lot of great stories covered but being first on the scene for the Nazi punks has my undying respect and support.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
@smeeegs Most rush chances begin in the defensive zone breaking out with possession. They've been a poor breakout team since 2022. So yea. There's definitely some cause here.
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Smeegs@smeeegs·
@DavidCastilloAC Do you think there’s anything else at play here? They’ve historically been an extremely poor finishing team at 5v5 in the post season (going back to 2022) In that time, they’ve had stretches where they’ve been a league leading rush chance team and still had finishing woes.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
Two things can be true at once: Dallas' s% didn't reflect the chances they got (DAL hit 9 posts to MIN's 5), *and* their s% broadly reflected the team's static approach to attacking (where they didn't create off the rush or forecheck all year).
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my takeaway from Stars/Wild: not that much to takeaway honestly. we knew this was two of the top teams. teams were basically even at 5-on-5. Dallas had a 51% shot share, 53% xgoal share, and 22% goal share. they shot 3% at 5-on-5. that's the way it goes sometimes

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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
@ThunderbirdRay I'm not referring to their lack of rush offense short term, but on the whole. Even with Hintz in the lineup, Dallas was a poor rush chance team. It would have helped versus Minnesota but it would have been a problem moving forward like it was all season. Weak breakouts obv. hurt.
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Andrew Johnston
Andrew Johnston@ThunderbirdRay·
@DavidCastilloAC No Hintz has a huge trickle down effect on the rush attack. They didn’t push Minnsota’s D back on any shifts so they constantly had to go uphill thru the neutral zone. W Hintz, you could turn the tide, without they severely lacked team speed, especially at C.
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David Castillo@DavidCastilloAC·
@mikelikessports The Bill Guerin angle kills me more than anything, but I won't pretend like that isn't a really good team they lost to.
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Mike Piellucci@mikelikessports·
I know the dude @DavidCastilloAC is sick over this, but he was projecting healthy skepticism about this team all season long, and man was he right.
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