Turning back the clock is a dangerous enterprise, unless it involves one hour in the spring. Sometimes you miss your target. Sometimes the past is just the past.
But I don't blame the Dallas Stars at all for trying, and that's where this franchise is headed. Ken Hitchcock will be announced as the team's head coach Thursday, two NHL sources confirmed, as the club looks to relive the '90s and return to Stanley Cup contention.
Hitchcock will be the seventh full-time head coach the Stars have had since they moved here from Minnesota in 1993. He was also the second.