Fans From Abroad: What Made You A Fan Of The Dallas Stars?

I was roughly 11 years old. Started watching foxtel and i was immediatly amazed at the speed and intensity of the game. I grew curious and watched the 2 games a week televised on tv in australia. The stars where in a rivalry with the avs and wings. Got my first playstation game faceoff 99 or whatever. Moved and wasnt able to watch or follow much cept for nhl.com. Started following more closely after lockout and loved shouting MOOOODAAAANOOOO whenever he scored on the wings an ducks which my mates follow. Found out about DBD when the stars had that awesome run in 08 and been perving around this site since :D Close to making a bet of travelling to Dallas if the stars make the playoffs next season … GO STARS!

Went to a Stars vs. Blues game. I was 16 and a diehard football player and fan. That all changed the day after the Stars game. Now married with 2 boys (and twin boys due in Sept.It is without a doubt a stars household.

Playing with the Dallas Stars in EA Sports’ NHL98… don’t ask me why I chose them. In the first game I had the Blackhawks, they sucked… with the Stars I scored, I won and than I found a weekly german TV show reporting about the NHL and I followed the Stars there… I always liked hockey as a sport to watch!

Around came the 1998 playoffs… and I was sort of hooked! As far as you could be as a 12 year old with slow internet connection in Germany ^^ After that there was the 1999 Stanley Cup and since then I’m addicted. So the championship helped of course! In 2009 I finally made my trip to Dallas and I’m planning on doing it a lot more times in my life =)

Btw: Thanks DBD for supporting my addiction!

When I was at school, a friend of mine was into hockey. It was a sport I had seen a bit of once in a blue moon, but never had any real contact with. My friend pointed me in the direction of the weekly game that was broadcast on Channel 5 and I started watching matches but didn’t really have a team.

I got my hands on a demo of NHL 2000 ofrom the PC magazine I bought so I stuck it in and was instantly hooked. I always played as the Stars and so it began! At the time I had no idea about the Stanley Cup win, I just loved watching the team. It was rare to see the Stars broadcast on C5 as it was mainly the Eastern Conference + Oilers/Canuks/Redwings that got games shown so most of my info came from running up large phone bills with our dial-up internet. The early afternoon games were great for me as I meant I can listen to the live radio broadcast!

One day I will make it to Dallas for a game! I saw the Ducks – Kings game in London in 2007 and this just made me want to go even more. I have even managed to get my sister hooked on the Sport. Unfortunetly she is a Red Wings Fan…

Everyone outside of Dallas make a pact.. If the stars make the playoffs in a certain round or year. We’ll all go there and PARTY with the local DALLAS FANATICS.. :)

Was always a hockey fan but never really got into a team until i started picking the stars in NHL 03. No reason for choosing them, just got easy remembering the names Modano,Morrow,Zubov and Turco. After that I was a stars fan but not a heavy stars fan, the 08 cup run caused me to watch every stars Season game possible. Here I am today, reading daily Dallas Stars blogs.

On the hockey game the stars players are under the rating they should be.. Well thats what i think anyways

No matter what it was and what country it was from. If it was shown on television I would watch it. Hockey was just one of those many sports. The Olympic tournament was my main exposure to it though there also was sporadic coverage of the British league as well.

The next step in my hockey fandom was the release of NHLPA 93 for the Megadrive. I loved that game and spent countless hours playing it. My love of hockey was growing by the day.

But it was in 1998 that my hockey fandom reached it’s peak. That was the year that Channel 5 started to show regular coverage of the NHL. When this happened, just as had happened a year or so earlier when they started showing baseball, I selected the team I felt was most likely to win the Stanley Cup as my team to follow. As Dallas were the only one of the big teams in the Western Conference not to have won a cup, I picked them. Of course the rest is history and my prediction was shown to be totally correct. My Dallas Stars fandom was off to a flying start. On a side note, I was actually unable to see the cup winning goal as Channel 5’s coverage of Game 6 ended before the conclusion of the game which is something that I will always regret.

Since then I have gone through many highs and lows following the Stars and have spent many insanely late nights watching them. Watching the series clinching goal in Game 6 against the Sharks at 7.30 in the morning will live with me forever. And I will finish by saying that no matter what happens in the future, for better or for worse, I will always be a Dallas Stars fan. Go Stars!

The first hockey games I went to were back in the late 70’s, Ft Worth Texans and Dallas Blackhawks, then the ‘80 olympic team, had me hooked for life. Unfortunately, living in Texas it’s always football. Thankfully, the Stars got to town in when they did. Friends gave me hell and couldn’t figure out, or believe, that I liked hockey more than football. A lot of people I met going to school thought I was from up north, north of the Red River that is, but I assured them both sides of the family were Texan for several generations and I wasn’t on drugs. They just never got it for some reason. My job moved me down to Austin roughly 7 yrs ago, so I didn’t get to make near as many games as I did living in Ft Worth, nor did I get to watch a lot of games because they would be preempted for the Spurs or Astros. (Thank God they’ve improved that situation greatly the last few seasons.) I had to change my shorts when I heard Dallas was getting an AHL affiliation in Cedar Park and have been a season holder since they started in ‘09. I’m really pumped about this next season for Dallas and Texas both. Go Stars!

end up in dallas in 92 then in 93 here comes the stars and modano.
thank for center ice

i was about 8 years old at the time, it was something new and they had mike modano. i knew from the first time i watched him that i was in for life. as a kid i thought all athletes were superman and didnt realize that they couldnt be out there every second of the game. so my thought process as an 8 year old was “modano isnt out there, why the hell not?” and “modano doesnt have the puck! pass it to him, he’s better than you!” the only hockey player i knew before the stars came to town was gretzky, and he was a pussy. so when mo came in i knew as long as that guy was around i would be a stars fan. now that im grown up its still sad that he’s gone since he was the last remaining childhood hero of mine, but i still love the stars and unlike every other team ive ever rooted for, i always have hope.

My father was a Gretzky fan so I dabbled with the Kings when I was younger.

Eventually my father took a job with an oil company in Dallas around 94 and thats when it started for me.

I stayed in Canada with my mom but since I could not stand the Flames I threw in with the Stars.

I remember scoring goals with Modano in NHL 95 (much to my friends dismay) and going to see them when they came to town.

Most of my friends are Edmonton transplants so the playoff battles of the late 90’s were always a fun time for me and them….well mostly me.

Still to this day, I am a huge Stars fan and run into a few others at Flames games up here.
I also manage to make to AAC when I come down to visit.

This is what those Flames/Oil fans see when they step into my apartment!
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I moved to the U.S. to Euless, TX when I was years old. This was in 2001. Hockey, not surprisingly for a kid from Pakistan who grew up in the middle east, didn’t catch my attention at first. But hockey video games were amazingly fun and I remember playing NHL ‘99 and my first game for my PS2 was NHL 2002. I still have that copy of NHL 2002 and will still play it when it works. I always cheer for the hometown team so the Stars were an easy choice. I am now a student at UT and there were times last year when I was playing NHL ’99 on an emulator on my computer to keep me awake through lectures. Of course I didn’t listen to those lectures.

I wasn’t here when the Stars won the cup in ‘99 but I’ve enjoyed being a fan none the less. I stayed up for that long overtime game against the Canucks, and I was followed that magical ride in 2008. Those are probably my two best memories.

Thank you DBD for constantly keeping me updated while. Helps a lot for someone who doesn’t live in the DFW area.

I had several friends in high school that played hockey and I went to their games often, although never really picked up the sport that well. But in the Spring of 2003, I met a boy. That boy just happened to play for the Utah Grizzlies and I didn’t really believe him until he pulled out one of Dave Tippett’s cards. We became close and over the next 6 months I learned all I could about hockey and started watching the Stars as much as possible, although going to school in North Carolina made it a little more challenging.
When I was home on Christmas break that year though, my dear friend just happened to get called up to the big club…and my dad and I were the lucky recipients of his tickets. That was my first opportunity to see professional hockey live and it absolutely changed my life.
 I immediately fell in love with the sport and couldn’t imagine why so many people would choose to watch any other, because they all seemed so “sissy” now in comparison. Plus, I thought the skill level and athleticism required to be a hockey player was much more impressive than any other sport where you can just be really really good at one skill set (like a QB or receiver).
My player friend from Detroit and his best friend (who quickly became one of mine as well) were incredibly patient with me while I was learning the sport. They answered all my stupid questions about off sides, icing, and power plays (I once thought 3 PP in a game was a lot, ha). Fortunately though I went to school with a ton of Canadians in North Carolina, so when I returned from break I was still able to talk hockey with other fans…but man I did not get along with those from Edmonton (Big Surprise there).
 At this point I’m certianly one of the only girls I know that knows so much about the sport….still brushing up on history and stuff since I can’t claim to have been around for very long, but I think my passion for hockey makes up for some of that.
Defending Big D has been a wonderful discovery for me, and I sincerely thank this entire community for the learning experience and fan perspective that it provides all year long. I don’t comment very often, but I’m ALWAYS here, and I endlessly enjoy sharing this team with everyone here.

but I grew up in Texas. When I started following hockey a few years ago, the Stars still had their AHL franchise in Iowa. I’ve always kind of liked finding Texas-Iowa connections, so Dallas became the team I rooted for because of that, and the more I followed them, the bigger fan I became. Now they have their AHL team in Austin, where my parents and my brother live, so that’s cool, too. I’ve never been to a Texas Stars game because their schedule has never worked out to have home games when I’ve been in Austin.

I did see my first live Dallas Stars game last year over Christmas (drove up from Austin for the game against Phoenix) and this year plan to go up for the game against CBJ on 12/29.

Whenever schedules are released, the first thing I do is check to see if any games coincide with when I’ll be visiting family in Austin.

I grew up playing hockey just outside Toronto and for whatever reason chose Eddie as my childhood idol (probably due to the fact my Dad is a Hawks fan). I thus started out a Hawks fan, but moved my allegiance to Dallas along with Ed (I bypassed his stint with the Sharks). My most incredible NHL memories as thus all associated with the Stars (99 Cup run, 00 finals run, Dal-Edm rivalries, etc.). I (reluctantly) moved my allegiance once again with Ed to Toronto, but unlike the Hawks, my interest in the Stars didn’t go away. Once Eddie’s career began it’s decent into Florida and then Sweden, I had no interest is staying a Leaf fan. I had lost touch with the Stars for the 4 years after Eddie left, but that magical run in 08 certainly helped to introduce me to the Stars new young guns (mostly Loui, Gross, Hags and Nisky). From that point my Dallas pride has never wavered, even if every year since has been quite painful.

That said, it’s certainly exciting to see the Stars being reshaped into a top contending team (or what will be a contending team in the next few years). I couldn’t even imagine following another team at this point.

I was riding in the car with my brother and he turned on the Stars game. It was game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final against Buffalo. I had no idea what was going on or who was on what team, but I was amazed at how exciting it was. I have followed them faithfully ever since.

I’m a DFW area girl through and through. I’ve lived here my entire life other than a brief stint in Houston (hated it—sorry DBD Houstonians) and a year in Juneau, Alaska. I grew up liking football, but hating the Cowboys, so I had to delve into other sports to get my fix. LOL. Baseball was okay, and the Rangers were fine, but they always choked. Never could force myself to like basketball, though I did try. Might have helped if the Mavericks weren’t absolute crap for so long. I don’t know. And then there was hockey…but back in the day, there was no hockey in Texas. So I’m not a foreigner who loves the Stars…I’m a local girl who’s come to love them (almost) as much as my first team.

Still, I watched a game and I fell in love. The first game I watched happened to be a Detroit Red Wings game. I couldn’t tell you who they were playing against—can’t remember that. I do remember this, though—Steve Yzerman got a hat trick. I didn’t have a clue what that meant, but I knew I liked him, I loved the Wings, and I loved hockey. I was hooked. This was back in the early 90s…a year or so before the Stars moved down to Dallas.

As a diehard Wings fan, I never got to where I hated the North Stars, though it was tempting. I was far more inclined to hate the Blackhawks intensely. Then the Stars made the big move, and I thought what could be better? Hockey right here in Dallas? It sure made it easier to watch games, since they started showing more of them on TV around here. I figured for that, at least, I could become a Stars fan—but I wasn’t going to give up my Wings.

Over the years, I’ve come to be more of a Stars fan than I ever expected. It was easy to really like a team that came down here and did well almost right off the bat. Winning a cup in ‘99 didn’t hurt, either. LOL. That meant for me, one of my two teams had won it 3 years in a row. I was a very happy girl. Then the Stars were back in the finals in 2000. The rivalries back then between the Wings and Avs…and then the Stars and Avs…they were fabulous. It made it really easy to have a team I could absolute hate with the fire of a thousand suns. Those rivalries have died off quite a bit, with most of the guys involved either retiring or moving to different teams, but the memory is still there. Those rivalries made hockey more fun than any other sport, IMO.

I’m ready for Dallas to build up another rivalry like that again. (Just not with my Wings, please…I can’t take that, LOL.) I’m ready for the sort of passion that can bring out in people around here to take over again…for hockey, not for the freaking Cowboys, not for the Rangers (though that has been a lot of fun here lately), and not for the Mavericks, who I couldn’t care less about.

Anyway, that’s my story of a hometown girl becoming a fan of the home team. :)

My college in the UK had a large Swedish contingent for some reason and I hung out with a few of them. They were all hockey fans and got me into hockey too. They all supported the Red Wings because of their policy in basically recruiting large numbers of Swedes but I put it down to them being glory-hunters as this was when Detroit were pretty dominant. I kind of followed the Stars at this point as they were a good team and I thought their uniforms were cool. The time difference and broadband being in it’s infancy meant I didn’t get to see many games though. Then a couple of years later I worked late evening shifts and would come home late and found that Channel 5 here showed live hockey and, wouldn’t you know it, the first game I watched was a Dallas game! (and so was the next one). I was hooked from that point on.

I first saw Mike Modano FLYING around at the 93 All-Star game & was hooked by how fast & smooth & effortless he seemed to skate. Had to follow him & the Stars for sure. Thank God for the Center Ice package! The more I watched the Stars play, the more excited I got. Completely fell in love with Jere Lehtinen’s game. Still haven’t seen anyone play quite the same way as #26. Living in Indiana, hockey definitely takes a backseat to the other 3 major sports…again, thank God for Center Ice. Love the Stars, good times & bad, Mo or no Mo. I’ll never forget waking up the family at about 3 in the morning in ’99 when they won the Cup. Favorite sports moment ever! GO STARS!!!

It was in the early 80s. I live in Toledo Ohio, but ESPN was showing the Minnesota North Stars against Winnipeg Jets. The North Star’s Green and Gold uniforms caught my eye because they were very similar to our local IHL club the Toledo Goal Diggers. I found out later that Toledo was the farm club for the North Stars at that time. When I was 10, a couple of my friends got me interested in the Vikings. In the 80s, I lived and died purple and gold, so to see a hockey team wearing the same uniforms as the Diggers, and to be from Minnesota, well, that seemed like a perfect fit for me. So I followed the No. Stars from then on. Toledo is 45 minutes from Detroit. All my friends were Red Wings fans, and there was more a rivalry back then between the Stars and the Wings. It was a lot of fun. When the Stars moved to Dallas, I was bummed; I almost became a Wings fan, but decided that all the players I still like were now with Dallas. So I stuck with them and was rewarded when they won the Stanley Cup. The funny thing is, I was in a bar in Toledo when they beat Buffalo. I was the only person who jumped up a screamed for Joy when Hull scored his goal. All my friends and everyone in the bar was too busy watching karaoke to care about the game. The entire bar looked at me like I was nuts. One thing about Red Wing Fans, they are Detroit fans and nothing else. When they are out, Hockey is over to them. They could care less who else might win it. This season ended in disappointment, but I sure had fun watching the Stars beat on the Wings all year. Hope it continues. I only wish I could see more games.

Even though I am not very active on Defending Big D (this is just my second post), I have been reading and enjoying the website for quite some time! Kudos to the staff!!

I became a Stars fan because of Jere Lehtinen. I assume I don’t have to explain why, because of what I understand, he has been a fan favourite in Dallas from the very start. His preparation, work ethic and ability to make other players around him better immediately come to mind. Besides his offensive skills, he was always there to take care of the back end.

Hockey is not exactly the biggest sports in the Netherlands (unlike soccer and speedskating), so there is zero broadcasting on national TV. One exception is the Olympic Winter games. When watching the 1994 Olympics in Norway, I really was impressed by the performance and team effort by the Finnish team. One of their forward lines was the Huey, Dewey and Louie-line of Saku Koivu, Ville Peltonen and Jere Lehtinen. Thanks to the TV-channel Eurosport I was also able to see games at the World Championships and when Finland won the gold medal in Stocholm (of all places) it all took off. I started getting into trading cards and that was also a fun way to keep up with hockey, the Stars and Jere Lehtinen. But always from a distance with internet. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to actually see Jere play in a World Cup game in Cologne (Germany): a 3-0 victory for Finland in which he scored and had an assist!!.

When on holiday in North America, I always try to attend an NHL-team. Despite attending a few games throughout, I never managed to see an actual Stars game. Somehow Dallas was not exactly on route when visiting Canada or the US. With his possible retirement coming up, I decided it was now or never and finally last year, I went to the two final home games of the 2009-10 season. The first game was not too great when they lost to Chicago (2-5 I think) and because of rather annoying people in front of me. The next day I was able to meet my longtime hero after practice!!!! Since I was wearing my game-worn Lehtinen jersey, another Dallas Stars fan who had a couple of 8×10 Lehtinen photo’s which were signed by Jere, gave me one of his signed photo’s out of the blue. Real classy and great present!! A day later, with the final home game and possible last Dallas games for Mo, Tuks and Lehts, it was just an incredible experience. The atmosphere, the ovation for Mo, the game itself and Jere scoring in the shoot out……. Nothing but good memories!!!

By the way, I miss Sarah (2009-10 Dallas Stars Ice Girls) ;-)!!

I grew up in Houston, thinking hockey was stupid and weird, and REALLY? Winter Sports? Bah. I ended up in a college town in Texas (think: private, ridiculous and green and gold) and eventually met a Chicago girl who decided she needed more hockey fans. I began the search for a team shortly after indoctrination. (We marathon-ed 24/7 and then the Olympics and finals from 2010. There was little sleep that week.)

Decided I was interested in the Stars after watching a few games. Looked at the interviews, and I really like the class of certain players. Slowly got invested, and knew I was stuck when I started freaking over the whole Brad Richards thing. (Also, Jamie Benn! Loui Eriksson! Alex Goligoski!)

So, I’m kind of in love this team in a ridiculous way.

I grew up in Dallas, moved to Boston 8 years ago, and kinda left behind all my Dallas roots. One of my roommmates up here was a die hard Bruins fan (in 2005 all Bruins fans were die hard…all 20 of them!) Watching him live and die with every win or loss (he was dying a lot then), made me curious about my own hometown boys. When I saw what a powerhouse they were at that time, I got immediately hooked. And actually, watching them fall from grace with their ownership issues, and not being prepared to replace their aging greats has pulled me in even more. I think Neuwy’s doing an awesome job, and I love the new generation of Stars coming up. Watching this team in 2 years is gonna be like watching them in the mid 00’s again! (minus all the first round playoff exits, i hope)

in case anyone’s curious, I am also a die hard Bruins fan, but they still take second place to the Stars. 6 years ago, they were managed much worse than the Stars have been for 3 years now, but th

It was ’99. Here you simply couldnt watch any NHL games so I knew next to nothing about the sport and the teams/players in the NHL. Its very unpopular here, hockey and the NHL. Soccer (sucka:) is king. I was 14 yrs old and yeah, I saw on the news that the Dallas Stars had won the Stanley cup. I guess I became sort of a bandwagoner around that time. I used to play some PC games – NHL 2000,2001 etc and I always picked the Stars. The only guy I had heard of of course was Modano and his big shot in the game – he had a cannon of a shot in those EA games. I remember when I played playoffs mode the game always had the Oilers as my opponent. I always lost against them, I sucked at the game. I remember thinking that “the Oilers” was ridiculous as a team name. Anyway. Ever since then for more than a decade now I ve been a Stars fan, loud and proud! And I very much hope that that ’99 season and the seasons around that time will not be the peak of the history of the franchise and I will get to witness such moments of triumph myself. In ’99 it was only a brief, very brief sportsnews report that I still remember though. Yet, it is not enough. I want the real thing now. With the internetz and live streaming now it is possible.

I was 7 years old ( I think? I’m 19 now) and I had just finished my first year of rec league hockey in my hometown in New Jersey. My mom being a Canadian wouldn’t allow her son to go through life without at least trying hockey. In the league there were 8 teams each named and colored after an NHL team. The teams were Kings (black), Stars (green), devils (red), Penguins (yellow), Rangers (blue), Bruins (white), Sharks (teal), and flyers (orange). Luckily I got chosen to play for the stars. I was stoked since green was my favorite color. I fell in love with hockey after that season. Then come playoff time hockey coverage started picking up a bit on tv. While i exclusively watched cartoon network at that period in my life, one day me and my older sister were flipping through channels and hockey came on for a second. I made her stay on the channel. It was a preview of the Stars’ 3rd first round game. I was like wait, let’s watch, this is the team I play for in rec league. So we watched a bit and I started following the playoffs. Now, when I was a youngster I was a terrible front runner. At the beginning of the playoffs i’d switch “favorite team” based on possession. For every series except the Stars’. By the time it was mid way through the second round I had started picking up on some of the storylines- Belfour being amazing, the nieuwendyk trade, the Hull signing. But the storyline i remember the most (i forget now exactly when in the playoffs it was) was Modano (who was quickly becoming my favorite) playing with a bad wrist. I decided this was the sport for me and come the finals i was viciously rooting against the Sabres. I was soo happy when the Stars won the cup.

 I remember talking to my grandfather on the phone a couple days later – my mom’s side of the family is from montreal and are hardcore Habs fans. We were talking about how i had started playing hockey that year and he was telling me how happy he was with that. Then he asked me if i was a montreal fan and i said no, dallas. I remember In his polish accent (he went to canada after surviving a concentration camp) he half yelled- “What? The Texas Stars?! They’re barely even a real team!” I just laughed and said yeah and we talked about the winning goal and stuff and since then he always asked me about them.

Since the Stars were rarely on tv in new jersey I tried keeping up with everything from looking at the boxscores and summaries in the New York Times and catching little snippets on tv but soon that wasn’t enough for me and i kinda slipped out of following them. In middle school I also went through a phase where i was obsessed with the army and wanted nothing more to join, so when we got a computer with good internet that I could use all the time most of my time was spent looking at army stuff. Then the World of Warcraft addiction hit. In 8th grade I would still tell people I was a stars fan but i didn’t know much about any of the players besides the guys on the cup team and turco and didn’t really know anything about the team itself. Then that summer i got my first copy of NHL i think it was 07 or somthing like that so I started playing with the stars and at least new their names, that got me a bit more into them once again. I live in Princeton New Jersey, so I went to Princeton High School. My 9th grade English teacher was also a Princeton grad and when she found out I was a hockey fan she asked me who my favorite team was. I told her it was the stars and she said something like “oh really? do you know Jeff Halpern?” and i got all excited and said yes. She then told me that he had played at Princeton and was best friends with her husband, who was the captain of the Princeton hockey team while Jeff was there. So that got me re-interested in the team and i started following them daily on NHL.com. Then the next year I convinced my mom to get me center ice so i watched every single game. Since then I’ve been a die hard fan, my mom didn’t renew our center Ice because my grades dipped considerably the second half of my sophomore year which was prime hockey season. I still maintain that that dip could have been as much related to hockey as it was to my ummm, experimentation, with certain things I was exposed to for the first time in highschool. I was never the kid who cut class to go outside and smoke, but needless to say it definitely had an effect.
Now I’m in college at BU and get to see Alex Chiasson play every friday and I pay for my NHL Gamecenter live package for my computer which I watch every night.

SO basically I’m a stars fan because I was an awful frontrunner

Hey there! My good buddy Ray and I are HUGE Stars fans!! I live in N. Arlington and he in Ft. Worth. You ever get down here we’ll be more than happy to go to a game and show you around, meet up have some food and drinks! We’re always wearing some sort of Stars gear and run into people all the time! I met him years ago through my brother and found out he liked hockey. When I asked what was his team he answered Stars so we started playing NHL 2001 EA Sports and we’ve been going to Stars games and checking them out on TV or on radio while bbq’ing ever since and going to the watching parties where true believers hang out! :D reneskoolemail is my yahoo. You ever find yourself coming this way, we can meet up @ a game in the AAC and at least have ourselves a beer and watch the Stars! Go Stars Go! —Rene

Like many others, it’s NHL 96 ou 97 that got me into hockey. I always liked the sport even if it’s quite small here in France. I took the stars at the time at random and I sticked with them since. Then I became addicted to hockey and I started playing six years ago. Been to the Olympics in Torino to following the stars players that were there and we also toured Quebec last year with my team and we get to watch games on ESPN America.

My next goal: Playoff games in Dallas (hopefully next year) if they get to play the Wings. My brother in law is a huge Wings fan and we agreed that next time Dallas and Detroit meet in the playoffs we would make the trip to Dallas.