2026-2027 NHL team preview: Dallas Stars

LAST SEASON It would have been tough for anyone to survive erstwhile Dallas Stars head coach Peter DeBoer’s ham-handed scapegoating of star goalie Jake Oettinger after the Stars’ 2025 playoff exit. If you squint, you can still see the tire marks on Oettinger’s sweater. You got the feeling, though, that GM Jim Nill was just looking for a reason to can DeBoer, even after a third-consecutive Western Conference Final berth. For Nill, who had eschewed his uber-patient roster-building approach to trade for superstar Mikko Rantanen just a few months earlier, almost winning was no longer good enough. Enter Glen Gulutzan,…