dallas stars history
dallas stars history
After a year of being locked-out, NHL hockey’s back at American Airlines Arena. So get your Dallas Stars tickets and be there when the Stars try to recapture Lord Stanley’s Cup for the second time. The Stars are loaded with youth and experience, with 10 players on their roster at age 30 or over, and seven players 25 years old or younger. Such a combination could make Stars tickets a hot commodity throughout the NHL.
The Stars began play in Big D in the ’93-’94 season, after moving south from Minnesota, one of North America’s hockey capitals. In five years, the Stars reached the pinnacle of the hockey world, hoisting the Stanley Cup after a grueling five-game series against the Buffalo Sabres.
Perennial All-Star and team captain Mike Modano leads the Stars. He has made a cameo appearance in the movie The Mighty Ducks. Opposite Modano on the right wing is 34-year-old Bill Guerin, and in the net is Marty Turco, who had a 1.88 goals against average in the most recent campaign, after posting a 40-year best 1.76 in the 2002-03 season. Modano and Guerin make up the American contingent of the roster as the only two players born in the states.
Dallas is trying to shake off the rust of the lock-out season and add to their nine playoff appearances and six division championships of their 12 seasons in Texas. After capturing the Stanley Cup in 1999, the Stars repeated as conference champs the following season. However, the Stars would come up short to the New Jersey Devils in six games. Current Star, Jason Arnott, beat goaltender Eddie Belfour in the second overtime to win game six and de-throne the champions.
In the second of the 2002-03 NHL Playoffs, the Stars would match up with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in a memorable five-overtime game, in a series the Stars would lose in six games. Of the four losses, all were by one goal, with two going into overtime.
Today’s players Guerin, Turco, Arnott, Scott Young, Turgeon, and Modano hope to keep the winning tradition alive in Dallas. It seems like yesterday that Brett Hull was scoring the Stanley Cup winning goal in 1999.
Modano hopes that once again the Stars’ cup runneth over, so fans should get their Dallas Stars tickets and see the Stars that burn so bright in the North Texas sky. Coach Dave Tippett steers the Stars into their sixteenth campaign in search of a second Stanley Cup, It should be exciting for those fans who are lucky enough to scoop up those Stars tickets.
