His fingerprints are all over one of the NHL’s elite squads. It’s trade deadline week, meaning there isn’t a waking moment — and likely even some when his head is on the pillow — when Jim Nill isn’t rolling around ideas to improve his Dallas Stars.
And yet there was the 57-year-old Stars general manager earlier this week taking a few valuable minutes to reminisce about a life in the game, including a four-year stretch in Winnipeg with the Jets 1.0.
"It’s been a few years since then, but they were good years," said the Stars boss in a phone interview from Texas.