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Dallas Stars right wing Brett Hull waves to the crowd during the Stanley Cup Championship Parade on Young Street in Downtown Dallas.
Editor's note: Today is the 18th anniversary of the Dallas Stars' victory parade through Dallas after winning the 1999 Stanley Cup. To mark the anniversary, we're bringing back our main story from the parade.
BY MICHAEL E. YOUNG
DALLAS -- The most beloved man in Dallas, and perhaps all of North Texas, strode forward Monday in rumpled shorts and a wildly oversized sweater and addressed his adoring subjects.