![]() Stanley Cup Finals 1999: Dallas Stars vs Buffalo Sabresĭallas entered the 1998/99 playoffs as the league’s best team and were the top seed overall with a record of 51-19-12 for 114 points and topped the league’s Pacific Division. The team currently competes in the Central Division in the league’s Western Conference and have iced some excellent players since moving to Texas such as Jamie Benn, Jamie Robertson, Joe Pavelski, Mark Tinordi, Tyler Seguin, Derian Hatcher, John Klingberg, Jere Lehtinen, Brenden Morrow, Kirk Muller, and Mike Ribeiro along with Hall of Famer’s Ed Belfour, Guy Carbonneau, Brett Hull, Joe Nieuwendyk and Sergei Zubov. They have also won a pair of Presidents’ Trophies as the NHL’s top regular-season team in 1997//99. The Dallas Stars have one Stanley Cup victory to their name as they downed the Buffalo Sabres in 6 games in the 1998/99 postseason. Minnesota was then awarded with another NHL franchise in 2000 when the Minnesota Wild arrived. They reached the Final again in 1990/91 and were downed by the Pittsburgh Penguins, this time in 6 games.Īfter more financial problems and relocation rumours, the Minnesota franchise was allowed to move to Dallas, Texas for the 1993/94 season and was renamed the Dallas Stars. The merger was successful at the beginning as the team reached the 1980/81 Stanley Cup Final but were beaten in 5 games by the New York Islanders. The merger was allowed as both clubs appeared to be on the verge of folding and the two combined franchises continued to compete as the Minnesota North Stars while the Barons ceased to operate. ![]() The franchise merged with the Cleveland Barons in 1978, who originally entered the league as the Oakland Seals in the 1967 expansion as well. If we follow the timeline we see that the North Stars were based in Bloomington, Minnesota but began to suffer financially in the late 1970’s. ![]() ![]() ![]() The history of the Dallas Stars goes back to 1967/68 when the NHL expanded to 12 teams from 6 and the Minnesota North Stars were admitted to the league. ![]()
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