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7 unusual facts about Dallas Stars


2010–11 Dallas Mavericks season

The Mavericks are also the third team to win a major sports championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, joining the Dallas Cowboys' five Super Bowl titles and the Dallas Stars' only Stanley Cup, leaving the Texas Rangers as the only team to not win a major sports title in the area, as they have not won the World Series.

The Mavericks won their first NBA Championship in Game 6 to clinch the first major sports championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since the 1999 Dallas Stars, and the first title in Mavericks franchise history.

Burden Brothers

The single "Beautiful Night" is used during Dallas Stars games often to this day, due to the line "It's a beautiful night/to watch the Stars."

Fox Sports New Orleans

Besides the Pelicans, Fox Sports New Orleans also airs games from Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers and the NHL's Dallas Stars (both via sister channel Fox Sports Southwest), as well as Big 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference collegiate sporting events.

Kennewick, Washington

Stu Barnes, former NHL player, now an assistant coach with the Dallas Stars.

Marquette Sports Law Review

Michael J. Cramer, former president of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars, and James Swiatko, former Lead Articles Editor of the Marquette Sports Law Review and 2007 graduate, "Did Major League Baseball Balk - Why Didn't MLB Bargain to Impasse and Impose Stricter Testing for Performance Enhancing Substances," 17 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 29 (2006).

Tom Hicks Elementary School

The land where the school building sits was donated in 1998 by Thomas O. Hicks, owner of over 400 radio stations, Chairmain of the Board and owner of the Dallas Stars hockey team as well as the Texas Rangers baseball team.


2006–07 Vancouver Canucks season

Scored the game-winning goal in Game 1 vs. Dallas ending the longest overtime game in team history and the 6th longest in NHL history on April 11, 2007.

Lukas Krajicek played in his 100th career NHL game on October 23, 2006, at Dallas.

Iowa Wild

The Wild is the second AHL team to call Des Moines and the Wells Fargo Arena home; the city previously was home to the Iowa Stars, which had been the Dallas Stars' AHL affiliate from 2005 until 2008 (in the team's final season in 2009, they were known as the Iowa Chops and were affiliated with the Anaheim Ducks).

Jeff Petry

His first NHL goal was scored on January 20, 2011 against Kari Lehtonen of the Dallas Stars.

Jody Shelley

In a 2008 regular season match against the Dallas Stars, Sean Avery hit Brad Lukowich and after the incident, Shelley and Avery began to throw water and Gatorade at each other while jawing at each other.

Mark Recchi

Recchi is a co-owner of the Kamloops Blazers, along with Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi, Jarome Iginla, Shane Doan, and Darryl Sydor.

Mick McGeough

In a regular season game between the Dallas Stars and the Edmonton Oilers on November 4, 2006, with the Stars up 3–2 with 4.1 seconds left in regulation, McGeough waved off what would have been a game-tying goal by Edmonton's Ales Hemsky, ruling that Oilers' centre Shawn Horcoff had made a glove pass prior to Hemsky touching the puck.

Phil Gaglardi

The Gaglardis had two sons: Bob Gaglardi, founder of Northland Properties (whose holdings include the 35-hotel Sandman Hotel chain and 100-plus restaurants under various labels) whose son Tom Gaglardi is the current owner of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, and BIll, a Calgary businessman.

Slava Voynov

His first and second NHL goals were scored on October 27, 2011 against Kari Lehtonen of the Dallas Stars.


see also

Allen Americans

On May 4, 2012, the Allen Americans announced that former Dallas Stars Mike Modano, Craig Ludwig, and Ed Belfour partnered up to become minority owners.

Beamsville, Ontario

Paul Laus, a former Florida Panthers defenceman and Ryan Christie, who played seven games with the Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames are also Beamsville natives.

St. Stephen, New Brunswick

Don Sweeney, former NHL hockey player with the Boston Bruins and Dallas Stars