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The Stars are also likely to be sold soon, which would please the NHL. "The feeling in the league office is that the problem isn’t the market, it’s Hicks," said a league insider, who has served as an executive with several teams, of the declining revenue in Dallas. "He needs to be gone."

"I can still be a fan," he said of his exit strategy, which will almost certainly involve selling all three entities over the coming months. "But I’ve paid a terrible price. I’m 64 years old. I don’t want that anymore. Jerry Jones is a good friend of mine, but his life and his family’s life is the Dallas Cowboys. Mark Cuban, the Mavericks are his life. This isn’t my life."

“At one point, Stars general manager Doug Armstrong made the strategic decision to let Mike Modano leave as a free agent. From a yacht, Hicks called Modano, with whom he’d shared steak dinners at his hangout of Bob’s Steak & Chop House, overruling Armstrong and making an agreement.”