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For the first two months of the 2008-09 season, goaltender Alex Auld was the Ottawa Senators' most valuable player.

The Stars got some great value Wednesday in a trade with Ottawa. They picked up veteran netminder Alex Auld in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2010.

The Dallas Stars have filled their big need for a backup goalie, getting Alex Auld from the Ottawa Senators .

The day the free agency market opened, the Dallas Stars, like many teams, had holes which needed to be filled.

There once was a time when the Stars used free agency to build their team. And they might one day again.

The Dallas Stars have historically been rich in net, with the depth of the Atlantic - think - Andy Moog and Darcy Wakaluk, Ed Belfour, and Marty Turco .

Tom Hicks stood last week at the press conference to announce Marc Crawford as the Dallas Stars' new coach, and described the hunger he feels about winning championships.

Ironically, it was Jonas Gustavsson who made the pitch Thursday. The free agent goalie, who is touring four NHL cities in hopes of selecting a new team for next season, threw out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers game.

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

The Texas Stars are taking shape. The new American Hockey League affiliate of the Dallas Stars named its coaching staff Tuesday: ECHL coaching standout Glen Gulutzan is the head coach, and long-time Stars minor leaguer Paul Jerrard is the assistant.

Marc Crawford has had plenty of ups and downs in a long coaching career, but Joe Nieuwendyk said Thursday that Crawford is the right coach for the Stars.

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.

New Stars head coach Marc Crawford. Tippett's 36-35-11 record in 2008-2009 was his worst mark in six seasons as head coach.

Let's get this moving, folks. On Tuesday, Judge Redfield T. Baum will decide who controls the future of the Phoenix Coyotes -- the NHL or Blackberry billionaire Jim Balsillie.

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.

I'm sure by now that most of you have heard the helpful stat that teams who have won the first two games of the Stanley Cup Finals have gone on to win the trophy 41 out of the last 44 times.

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 .

When Tom Hicks sees Joe Nieuwendyk, the visions of an MVP of the stanley cup series comes racing back into his head, so he might be living in the past a little bit while he looks to the future.

Today: We've got a pretty tight grip on the very best photos in today's gallery.

The voting is complete for University of Michigan ice hockey's inaugural NHL All-Star Team.