{"id":458809,"date":"2026-10-07T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458809\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:28:13","slug":"dallas-stars-tie-for-most-top-players-on-espns-top-100-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458809\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars tie for most top players on ESPN&#8217;s top 100 rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And according to some national media, the roster put together by general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/jim-nill\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Jim Nill<\/a> and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/glen-gulutzan\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Glen Gulutzan<\/a> should have the talent to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a panel of\u00a0ESPN staff members released their projection of who will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/50109471\/nhl-2026-27-rankings-top-100-players-predictions-stats\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">top 100 players of the 2026-27 season<\/a>. The Stars tied with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens to lead the way with six players apiece in this year&#8217;s top 100.<\/p>\n<p>Among the names from Dallas on ESPN&#8217;s top 100 projection:<\/p>\n<p>Rantanen, Robertson and Heiskanen account for four of the team&#8217;s six goals so far this season, with Heiskanen leading the team with two goals. Oettinger posted his first shutout of the season and 17th of his career in the team&#8217;s Oct. 5 win, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Only two Stars on the list improved their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/10\/14\/dallas-stars-have-more-top-players-than-any-other-nhl-team-espn-ranking-says\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">ranking from last season<\/a>, with Johnston going from 61st to 32nd and Harley jumping from 81st to 76th.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas and its star players have the opportunity Thursday night to pick up their second victory of the season when they play the Sabres in Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And according to some national media, the roster put together by general manager Jim Nill and head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-458809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}