Texas Stars Schedule 2026
Hockey in the Austin suburbs runs through Cedar Park, where the American Hockey League's Texas Stars open their 18th season in 2026-27. The green and white finished 2025-26 at 37-29-4-2, third in the Central Division, in Toby Petersen's first year behind the bench. Anyone hunting for Texas Stars tickets gets fast, skilled hockey stocked by the Dallas pipeline. Catch the Texas Stars at home this season through Event Tickets Center.
Serving as the top development club for an NHL organization shapes everything about this roster. Young talent comes to Cedar Park to log heavy minutes, and the players who handle it turn up in Dallas Stars games within the same season. Mavrik Bourque won the American Hockey League's most valuable player award with Texas in 2023-24 before moving up for good, and Thomas Harley put in AHL time before becoming a fixture on the Dallas blue line.
Opened in 2009 on Avenue of the Stars, the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park holds 8,700 for concerts and 6,778 for hockey, which puts the crowd close to the glass and keeps the room loud from the opening faceoff. Parking comes with every ticket, and more than 2,600 spaces sit on the property. Green sweaters fill the bowl, giveaways and theme nights run through the calendar, and the concourse moves fast between periods.
Every club in the league plays 72 regular-season games, and the Texas Stars' schedule opens Oct. 2, 2026, at home against the Iowa Wild before running into April 2027. November is the busiest month in Cedar Park with eight home dates. Rockford has become the measuring stick in the Central Division, and the two met with playoff seeding on the line last spring. Don't miss the game against the Rockford IceHogs on Jan. 2, 2027, at home.
Postseason history runs deep for a franchise this young. Texas reached the Calder Cup Finals in its debut season of 2010 and lost to the Hershey Bears, then lifted the trophy in 2014 with a five-game series win over the St. John's IceCaps. A second runner-up finish followed in 2018, when the Toronto Marlies took Game 7. Last spring closed in the Central Division semifinals against the Chicago Wolves, leaving this group with plenty of unfinished business.
Few minor league markets pack in this much: a championship banner, NHL prospects arriving every fall, and a building that turns green on weekend nights. Division rivalries and a roster that changes with every recall give the 18th season real shape. Watching tomorrow's Dallas lineup take form is worth the drive north from Austin. Make plans for a night of Stars hockey in Cedar Park at Event Tickets Center.