Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars are a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Dallas, Texas.

Franchise history

The Minnesota North Stars were founded as an expansion team in 1967, playing their games at the newly-constructed Metropolitan Sports Center (the "Met Center") in Bloomington, adjacent to Metropolitan Stadium. By the early nineties, declining attendance and the inability to secure a new downtown, revenue-generating stadium led team owner Norm Green to move the team to Dallas's Reunion Arena. After moving to Dallas, the team was sold to Tom Hicks and a new arena, America Airlines Center, was finished.

Related Topics:
1967 - Met Center - Metropolitan Stadium - Norm Green - Dallas - Reunion Arena - Tom Hicks - America Airlines Center

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The Oakland Seals were also a 1967 expansion team. They had many attendance and financial difficulties throughout their history. They went through various name and ownership changes to try to stay afloat. The owner of the Oakland Athletics (of baseball) had at one point bought the team and tried to rejuvenate it with mass advertising campaigns and by changing the team uniform colors to match that of the baseball team. All of these efforts failed in the Bay area and the team was moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and renamed the Cleveland Barons. After two unsuccessful seasons in Cleveland, the Barons merged with the Minnesota North Stars for the 1978-79 NHL season.

Related Topics:
Oakland Athletics - Cleveland Barons - 1978-79 NHL season

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The Dallas Stars have had much greater success at the box office and on the ice than any of their predecessors. They have won two Presidents' Trophies as the team with the best overall NHL record and have won the Stanley Cup once.

Related Topics:
Presidents' Trophies - Stanley Cup

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