It’s been a busy off-season for the Dallas Stars and fifth-year general manager Jim Nill.
A lot has happened with the Stars, who open training camp at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park Friday. The camp ends Monday. Preseason play begins Tuesday.
Dallas missed the NHL playoffs for the second time in three seasons and the organization didn’t renew coach Lindy Ruff’s contract. On April 13, the Stars hired Ken Hitchcock, who led Dallas to the 1999 Stanley Cup, to turn things around.
Hitchcock’s hiring was a great opening volley for the off-season, but Nill might have topped that May 9 when the Stars acquired the rights to goaltender Ben Bishop from Los Angeles.