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Sidney Crosby , left off the team as an 18-year-old in 2006, is among 46 players invited to the Canada Olympic hockey orientation camp next month.

The Stars are hoping they have found experience and toughness on a budget, signing free agent defenseman Karlis Skrastins to a two-year contract Thursday.

To play for Canada at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, you will have to be skilled, fast, gritty and well-balanced. Men's National Team Executive Director Steve Yzerman thinks he has found the 46 Canadian players that best fit the bill.

The Stars had a ready-made excuse at their disposal after missing the playoffs for just the third time in 13 seasons since they moved to Dallas.

Dave Tippett's emphasis on defense and puck possession helped the Stars become a perennial contender in the Pacific Division, but playoff success too often did not follow.

Maybe Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks instructed rookie GM Joe Nieuwendyk to fire coach Dave Tippett to clear the decks in Big D. Maybe Nieuwendyk did it on his own to flex his newfound GM muscles.

Trevor Daley watched Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Friday and was envious.

On the day he was introduced as the Stars ' coach, Marc Crawford experienced a flashback while scanning a local Hockey blog.

There was a noticeable absence Thursday at the news conference to introduce Marc Crawford as the new coach of the Stars.

During his non-announcement news conference late last month, Darryl Sutter said there were three coaches under contract he was interested in taking the job for the Calgary Flames.

Crawford, 48, spent last season imploring coaches to activate their defences as a Hockey Night in Canada analyst.

The Dallas Stars named Marc Crawford as their new coach Thursday, bringing in a well-traveled NHL veteran to replace the fired Dave Tippett.

Brenden Morrow remembers Joe Nieuwendyk as a leader from the first day he met him.

Stars coach Dave Tippett has been in the hockey business long enough to know that new general managers sometimes like to bring in their own people.

JIM REEVES DALLAS - Tom Hicks may have made the second-smartest decision in the history of his sports ownership - right behind bringing Nolan Ryan in as president of the Texas Rangers - when he dipped into the Dallas Stars' rich and verdant not-so-distant past to reclaim Joe Nieuwendyk as the team's new general manager Sunday.Nieuwendyk is ...

On second thought, two heads aren't better than one. Since two girlfriends = one problem, the Dallas Stars have abruptly ended their dual general managers experiement .

At the 1985 Canadian Hockey League awards luncheon during the Memorial Cup in Drummondville, Que., former Montreal Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur was the guest speaker.

Mike Modano is coming back for his 20th NHL season. A month after the Dallas Stars ended their season without a playoff berth and Modano said he would take some time to ponder whether he would retire, the highest-scoring U.S.-born player in NHL history said today he would play in 2009-10. 'I've made my decision and I'm coming back to play,' the ...

A shocking fall from grace left the Dallas Stars on the outside looking in at the 2009 NHL playoffs.

Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is a finalist for a second straight Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player.