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Dallas Stars Deadline Shopping: Great Teams Get Weird

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Are the Dallas Stars complete? With the NHL’s trade deadline looming this Friday, that is the critical question. It is a very specific question, too. General manager Jim Nill and coach Pete DeBoer are not asking what might help or which teams have assets to flip. They are not looking at pieces and contracts that might move and progress a rebuild, capture multiple draft picks, or support a playoff push. Those are the goals of the plebian seeds, the suckers in the 9-hole trying to inch their way into a pair of playoff home games and a Stanley Cup-shaped lottery ticket.