Texas Stars Meet the Players Night

The Texas Stars introduced their 2023 / 2024 team to their season ticketholders in a Meet the Players night on Tuesday. 

The Stars are returning 14 players from last year’s division winning roster.  Ten of the returning players are from the O-line, led by team captain Curtis McKenzie.  Other O-line notables include former Dallas Stars winger Nick Caamano and former AHL rookie of the year Riley Damiani. 

The D-line returns only two players, Alex Petrovic and Michael Karow.  To help bolster the experience level the Stars added former Dallas Stars and Texas Stars defender Gavin Bayreuther. 

Matt Murray and Remi Poirier return between the posts. 

Head coach Neil Graham and his coaching staff return, with a several additions.   Charlie Kaser joins the team as Equipment Manager, replacing Nick Lazer who was promoted to Dallas.  And Chris Nelson joins in the new position of Assistant Athletic Trainer. 

Returning O-line 

16 Curtis McKenzie     LW 6’2” 205 L February 22, 1991 32

10 Nick Caamano        LW 6’3” 205 L September 7, 1998 25

13 Riley Damiani         C 5’10” 170 R March 20, 2000 23

18 Fredrik Karlstrom   LW 6’2” 196 L January 12, 1998 25

19 Scott Reedy            C 6’2” 214 R April 4, 1999 24

21 Oskar Back             C 6’3” 200 L March 12, 2000 23

22 Mavrik Bourque     C 5’10” 179 R January 8, 2002 21

28 Matej Blumel         RW 6’0” 198 L May 31, 2000 23

39 Ben Berard             LW 6’0” 192 L February 13, 1999 24

40 Antonio Stranges   LW 5’10” 168 L February 5, 2002 21

Returning D-line

7 Alexander Petrovic   D 6’4” 216 R March 3, 1992 31

26 Michael Karow       D 6’2” 209 L December 18, 1998 24

Returning Goaltenders

32 Matt Murray          G 6’1” 194 L February 2, 1998 25

1 Remi Poirier             G 6’2” 210 L October 6, 2001 22

Former Texas Stars D-line

15 Gavin Bayreuther   D 6’1” 196 L May 12, 1994 29

New D-line 

2 Artem Grushnikov    D 6’1” 205 L March 20, 2003 20

5 Derrick Pouliot         D 6’0” 196 L January 16, 1994 29

20 Lian Bichsel            D 6’5” 225 L May 18, 2004 19

24 Gavin White           D 6’0” 185 R November 12, 2002 20

25 Christian Kyrou       D 5’10” 170 R September 16, 2003 20

30 Jacob Murray         D 6’3” 198 L April 11, 2002 21

New O-line

9 Keaton Mastrodonato          C 6’0” 205 R September 24, 2000 23

11 Logan Stankoven    C 5’7” 170 R February 26, 2003 20

12 Matthew Seminoff RW 5’11” 190 R December 27, 2003 19

14 Francesco Arcuri    C 6’1” 200 L June 13, 2003 20

33 Kyle McDonald       RW 6’4” 207 R February 5, 2002 21

Hockey Operations Staff

General Manager: Scott White

Head Coach: Neil Graham

Assistant Coach: Travis Morin

Assistant Coach: Maxime Fortunus

Video Coach: Josh Johnson

Goaltender Development Coach Ryan Daniels

Player Development Coach JJ McQueen

Athletic Trainer: Mike DeGaetano

Asst. Athletic Trainer Chris Nelson

Equipment Manager: Charlie Kaser