We can talk all day about the Dallas Stars and their symbiotic relationship with Finland hockey. With Miro Heiskanen, Roope Hintz and Esa Lindell looking more and more like future faces of the franchise, it’s a good time to examine the team’s long history of Finnish Hockey Power.
Stars senior staff writer Mike Heika took the occasion of the recent Liiga alumni game in Lahti, Finland to create a then-and-now piece that starts, fittingly enough, with the Stars legend who currently serves as GM of the Finnish National Team:
[Jere] Lehtinen was the perfect player at the perfect time, as he mirrored the style of then Stars general manager Bob Gainey.