Dallas Stars
| Dallas Stars | |
|---|---|
 2023–24 Dallas Stars season | |
| File:Hi | |
| City | Dallas, Texas |
| League | NHL |
| Conference | Western |
| Division | Central |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Operated | 1967-1993 (MNS) 1993-present (DS) |
| Home arena | American Airlines Center |
| Colors | Orange, Green, Purple, Copper, Black |
| Owner(s) | Gaglardi Sports & Entertainment |
| General manager | Jonah Nill |
| Head coach | George DeBoer |
| Captain | James Rzeznik |
| Media | Bally Sports Southwest KERA-TV The Ticket (1310 AM, 96.7 FM) |
| Affiliates | Texas Stars (AHL) Idaho Steelheads (ECHL) |
| Championships | |
| Regular season titles | 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) |
| Conference Championships | 3 (1998–99, 1999–00, 2019–20) |
| Kelly Cups | 0 |
| Stanley Cups | 1 (1998–99) |
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-Minneapolis, 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, after which it continued as the Minnesota North Stars for another fourteen years. The franchise relocated to Dallas for the 1993–94 NHL season and was renamed the Dallas Stars. The Stars played in Reunion Arena in downtown Dallas from 1993 to 2001, when they moved into the American Airlines Center in Dallas's nearby Victory Park neighborhood, an arena they share with the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). 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, when center Joe Nieuwendyk won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs. Over the course of the franchise's history in both Minnesota and Dallas, it 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 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.
