On January 7, 2026, LOVB Austin walked into H-E-B Center for the second season of professional volleyball with something to prove. The defending champions dropped a set to LOVB Nebraska, then another, then rallied to win a five-set thriller that ended 15-9 in the decider. The gym was full. The energy read like a playoff game, according to the players who were on the floor. Nobody in that building was watching hockey.
If your mental picture of the arena at 2100 Avenue of the Stars is still "the place where the Texas Stars play," that picture is out of date. The building now serves as home ice, home court, and home gym for three different professional franchises across three different sports, and this fall's calendar is the clearest proof yet. Here's what's actually scheduled, and why the venue you drive past on 183A does a lot more than you might think.
One address, three home openers
Most Cedar Park residents can name the Texas Stars. Fewer know the full roster of tenants:
- Texas Stars — American Hockey League, the top development affiliate of the NHL's Dallas Stars, playing their 18th season in Cedar Park this fall.
- LOVB Austin — professional women's volleyball, defending champions of League One Volleyball's inaugural season, now airing select matches on ESPN and ESPN2.
- Austin Spurs — NBA G League, the development affiliate of the San Antonio Spurs, based at H-E-B Center since the building opened in 2009 and marking a 20th-anniversary season in 2025-26.
Three leagues, three fan bases, one scoreboard. That's the part of the story that doesn't show up when you're just checking whether there's a Stars game this weekend.
The hockey calendar you should actually mark
The Texas Stars open their 2026-27 season at home against the Iowa Wild on Friday, October 2, a 7 p.m. puck drop that kicks off a 72-game slate split evenly between 36 home and 36 road contests. The team is coming off a 37-29-4-2 season and a fifth straight trip to the Calder Cup Playoffs, where Texas fell in five games to the eventual Western Conference champion Chicago Wolves.
A few dates worth circling if you're within driving distance of Cedar Park this season:
- October 2-3 — Opening Weekend against Iowa. Friday brings a magnet schedule giveaway; Saturday's crowd gets a locally designed T-shirt courtesy of Austin Telco Federal Credit Union.
- October 10-11 — Texas travels to face the Hershey Bears for the first time since the 2010 Calder Cup Finals. The rematch comes home March 30-31, 2027.
- October 24 — Fallout Night against the Ontario Reign, a partnership with Bethesda Studios that the team calls one of its most popular theme nights in franchise history.
- November 21 — StarsSlam, a wrestling-themed matchup against San Jose presented by Visit Cedar Park, with a rematch two weeks later in California billed as CudaMania.
- November 24-25 — Winter Wonderland against the Tucson Roadrunners, presented by H-E-B, with holiday activities and appearances from Santa and Mrs. Claus.
- December 11-12 — The annual Teddy Bear Toss against Grand Rapids, where fans throw new stuffed animals onto the ice after the Stars' first goal for donation to local families, followed by Ringo's Birthday the next night.
November is the busiest month on the home schedule, with eight games at H-E-B Center. If you're the kind of household that plans a weeknight around dinner and a game, the team's H-E-B Nights promotion runs every Monday through Thursday home date: bring an H-E-B branded, non-perishable food item to the box office and get five dollars off. Friday home games bring three-dollar domestic drafts courtesy of Brown Distributing, and the Pepsi Zero Sugar Family Four-Pack, four tickets, four hot dogs, and four soft drinks, starts at $22 per person for any Friday, Saturday, or Sunday game.
The volleyball team most residents haven't clocked yet
Here's the part of the story that's easy to miss if you're not already a volleyball follower. LOVB Austin isn't a minor curiosity playing in a side gym. The team just finished defending its 2025 championship through a second pro season that put it on national television. ESPN opened its 2026 broadcast slate with LOVB Atlanta visiting Austin on ESPN2, a matchup ESPN's own press materials framed around Atlanta seeking revenge after falling to Austin in the prior year's semifinals. USA Network carries a Match of the Week every Wednesday of the season.
The roster reads like a University of Texas alumni reunion. Eight former Longhorns suit up for Austin, including 2025 Finals MVP Madisen Skinner, middle blocker Asjia O'Neal, and Logan Eggleston, who put up 18 kills on .500 hitting in that January opener. This is a pipeline story as much as a sports story: a professional league built its Texas franchise almost entirely on players who trained a few miles down the road at UT, and now they play a full home slate three miles from Lakeline Boulevard.
Austin's 2026 promotional home dates included a Women's Sports Night on March 20 and a season-closing Fan Appreciation Night and "Purple Out" on April 2, both at H-E-B Center. The team's regular season wrapped this spring, and based on how last year's slate came together, expect the next round of match dates to be announced sometime this fall. If volleyball isn't already on your radar, it's worth adding to the list of things this building does that have nothing to do with a puck.
The 20-year tenant nobody mentions
The Austin Spurs have quietly been part of this address since the building opened in 2009. The franchise's roots go back further, to a 2001 start in Columbus, Ohio as the Riverdragons, a 2005 move to Austin as the Toros, and a 2014 rebrand to Austin Spurs after the San Antonio Spurs bought the team in 2007. Two G League championships, in 2012 and 2018, sit on the franchise's record, and Blake Ahearn has coached the team since 2017.
The 2025-26 season marked the franchise's 20th anniversary, complete with a commemorative logo built around the old Toros-era Texas outline. The team confirmed its 2026-27 home dates in June, with the full schedule and game times to follow. If you've lived in Cedar Park for a while and never made it to a Spurs game, it's the longest-running professional tenant in the building and the one most likely to be overlooked simply because G League basketball doesn't generate the same buzz as hockey or a nationally televised volleyball rivalry.
The rest of the marquee
Even on nights none of the three franchises are playing, the building doesn't sit empty. The ice comes out on October 31 for the 2026 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game between North Dakota and Michigan State, a college matchup that has nothing to do with the Stars but keeps the rink in use during the fall. The concert calendar already on sale for the coming months includes Foreigner on October 7, comedian Leanne Morgan for two nights on November 12 and 13, and Intocable on November 14. The venue can reconfigure from roughly 6,800 seats for hockey up to 8,700 for a sold-out concert, which is part of why the same building can host a Tuesday night comedy show and a Friday night hockey game in the same week without either one feeling like an afterthought.
What this actually changes
If you've been treating H-E-B Center as a once-in-a-while destination for hockey, the fall calendar makes a different case. Between October and the end of the year, the building runs three professional openers, a college hockey exhibition, and a full concert slate, several of them tied to national broadcasts that put Cedar Park's name in front of an audience well beyond Williamson County. That's worth knowing whether you're planning a Tuesday night out or just trying to understand what that traffic on 183A is actually about on a random weeknight in November.
For residents thinking about what else is changing in Cedar Park this year, from where new restaurants are landing to how the neighborhood's parks and trails are shaping daily life, Golden Real Estate Group keeps a close eye on the details that make this market worth watching. If you're weighing a move in or around Cedar Park and want a team that knows the neighborhood beyond the median price, book a consultation and let's talk about what you're actually looking for.
