Free Press Says Modano To Sign With Red Wings

But the Dallas Stars should have offered him the opportunity to play. I’m a Detroit fan (and native, not just on the Red Wings bandwagon) and I don’t mind that Modano’s playing in Detroit. But I wish he’d have had a Steve Yzerman type story. The Wings let Yzerman retire on his own terms.

(Then again, I’ll admit that I don’t keep tabs on the Stars, don’t know Mike’s history with the team.)

Seemed pretty clear that it was only a matter of time until he did sign with them.

This sucks….I really really really wish he could have just been ok with retiring. But after all he has done for the Stars over the past 2 decades it is not his fault that he still wants to play but the franchise is now a non-competitive younger franchise that doesn’t have room for him anymore. It makes me wanna cry the way this has all gone down, I honestly feel like as time goes by he’s gonna go from Sakic, Yzerman status down a notch over one season in a limited role for a rival franchise. However that is just an emotional response and he will still always be a 1 franchise guy to me….

I expected him to go to Detroit after reading all the rumblings in the media, but now that it’s official? That has a little bit different of a feeling in the stomach.

And opening night in Dallas is against the Red Wings? How crazy is that?

it makes me wonder what we did to piss off the hockey gods…I propose a sacrifice

beating the pants off the Stars all season. An opening night slaughter. Oh well…I’m looking forward to 2012 (and if the defense doesn’t look entirely different, so help me…).

I want to cry. Now I’m totally dreading Thursday, which makes me a sad ostrich because that’s Glee rerun night.

Hope you miss the playoffs.

NHL Center Ice sounds like an easy purchase this year.

Unfortunately for the Stars, all the headlines are about players leaving and not being able to afford top-dollar replacements.

Now that all of the purging is done, I hope that the team can rally around the new “core” and forge their own identity. No more waiting for Mo to play like he did ten years ago, and you won’t have Marty to hang out to dry.

I like starstrucks9 comments regarding the courting of Mike Modano, it just seems like the door was closed for Mike and that is the perception that Joe will have to deal with. Obviously Mike still wants to play, but how much did a competitive team factor into it? Regardless of the Mike’s thought process, and the need to start the next phase here in Dallas, fans will remember how Joe dumped him.

I don’t know what kind of reception Mike will get on Opening Night, but I think it might be time to make up with Marty (FEB 11) for the awkward farewell he received.

I put it that way because I wish him well, but it pains me to do so wearing red. What he did for me as a Stars fan could never be put into words. I really feel like this is probably the hardest season and off season any fan has been through. Let’s just pray they put together a solid season that can make this pain go away. Goddamnspeed, Mo.

when i see him in that jersey.

but don’t treat this like it’s the end of the world. It was time for the Stars to let Mo go whether he liked it or not.

This isn’t Joe’s fault. He made a good, though extremely difficult, hockey decision. I think we would have all preferred that Mo left on better terms, but obviously that didn’t happen.

When you’re rebuilding a team you can’t afford to live in the past. Some young guy like Benn or Wandell will take Mo’s place, and we’ll be a younger, faster team.

Don’t treat this like it’s the end. With young guys like Benn, Neal, Loui, Kari, and Fistric, and Campbell, Glennie, and Roman waiting in the wings, this is just the beginning.

Long live Mike Modano, but be excited for the future at the same time.

Farve is retiring.

Mo, why oh why couldn’t you join in with the rest of them???

Sigh. See you at the opener.

For all you who are mad at the Stars and GM Joe over this, I have a news flash for you: Mo did not play that well here the last two years. I know, it’s shocking, isn’t it. Frequently, he went completely invisible because he was not happy with the role he had on the team. That role was not going to change for the better. What was Joe supposed to do? Please explain what other options he had? Would it have been better to offer Mo a contract for a million that Joe didn’t really have to watch Mo do nothing all year?

Sorry people, but sometimes reality sucks.

weather to be happy or sad he WONT be wearing no.9???

Some say ‘absolutely’ – but I believe Ciccarelli retired a Red Wing.

I’m not concerned about where he lives after he retires. Your “here” isn’t my “here” anyway.

What matters to this Stars fan is that he retires from the organization he spent his entire career with. It’s uncomfortable enough that he’s now playing for a team I despise. If he retires as a Wing because it’s a better organization in his mind, that’s where I have issues.

I once met a player who started his career with the Sabres, and later signed with the Bruins just prior to retirement. I said “You were great with the Sabres.” He said, “You mean the Bruins.”

I guess I’m just pissing and moaning because it’s difficult, as a Stars fan, to see the positive in all this. He’ll always be a Star, sure. Underneath the red.