Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas. The Stars compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference, and were founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. Before the 1978–79 NHL season, the team merged with the Cleveland Barons after the league granted them permission due to each team's respective financial struggles. Eventually, the franchise relocated to Dallas for the 1993–94 NHL season where the team was rebranded as the Dallas Stars. The Stars played out of Reunion Arena located in downtown Dallas from their relocation in 1993 until 2001, when the team moved less than 1.5 miles (2.4 km) into the American Airlines Center located in the nearby Victory Park neighborhood of Dallas, an arena they share with the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
| Dallas Stars | |
|---|---|
| 2023–24 Dallas Stars season | |
| Conference | Western |
| Division | Central |
| Founded | 1967 |
| History | Minnesota North Stars 1967–1993 Dallas Stars 1993–present |
| Home arena | American Airlines Center |
| City | Dallas, Texas |
| Team colors | Victory green, black, silver, skyline green, white |
| Media | Bally Sports Southwest The Ticket (1310 AM, 96.7 FM) |
| Owner(s) | Tom Gaglardi |
| General manager | Jim Nill |
| Head coach | Peter DeBoer |
| Captain | Jamie Benn |
| Minor league affiliates | Texas Stars (AHL) Idaho Steelheads (ECHL) |
| Stanley Cups | 1 (1998–99) |
| Conference championships | 3 (1998–99, 1999–00, 2019–20) |
| Presidents' Trophy | 2 (1997–98, 1998–99) |
| Division championships | 9 (1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2015–16, 2023–24) |
| Official website | nhl |
The Stars have won nine division titles in Dallas, two Presidents' Trophies as the top regular season team in the league, the Western Conference championship three times, and the Stanley Cup in 1999, where center Joe Nieuwendyk won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs that year. Over the course of the franchise's history in both Minnesota and Dallas, the franchise has appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals five times (1981, 1991, 1999, 2000, and 2020).
In 2000, Neal Broten was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2009, Brett Hull became the first Dallas Stars player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, followed by Ed Belfour and Joe Nieuwendyk in 2011 and Mike Modano in 2014; Modano is the highest-scoring player in franchise history. In 2010, brothers Derian and Kevin Hatcher were also inducted to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.