Nill won the Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year award in 2022-23. The Stars went 47-21-14 last season, reaching the Western Conference final before losing to the eventual Stanley Cup champion ...

Nill’s name may already be on the Cup from his time as an assistant GM in Detroit, but winning with the Stars would carry a different meaning — a career’s worth of work paying off. At 66, he ...

In his 10th season as the club's general manager, Nill's Dallas Stars posted 108 points in the 2022-23 regular season with a record of 47-21-14, their highest point total since 2015-16.

sports Stars. What Jim Nill’s previous coaching hires tell us about the Stars’ current head coach search The Stars GM has hired five head coaches in his 12 seasons in Dallas.

Jim Nill, Dallas Stars general manager (left), answers a question from a reporter alongside Peter DeBoer, Dallas Stars head coach, during a press conference at the American Airlines Center in ...

The architect: How Jim Nill has cultivated a new era of Stars hockey As the GM embarks upon his 12th season in Dallas, it’s a good time to look back at all that he’s accomplished and set into ...

In Jim Nill’s case, there are the nuts and bolts of his job, and the mandate that informs them. The Stars have reached the playoffs in six of Nill’s 10 seasons in Dallas.

Nill may not be able to win the Stars a Cup while he’s GM. But they’re getting a lot closer. Not many general managers get to run the team and author their own exit plan at the same time.

BUFFALO — Jim Nill is the patriarch of the Dallas Stars as much as he is the general manager. Now in his third season with the team, Nill has earned respect around the NHL for transforming the ...

Jim Nill of the Dallas Stars, Patrik Allvin of the Vancouver Canucks and Bill Zito of the Florida Panthers have been named finalists for the NHL’s Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award ...

Before he was hired as Stars GM in 2013, Nill spent 23 years with the Detroit Red Wings front office — a stretch in which the Wings won four Stanley Cups. “It is one of the hardest trophies to ...

The assets were considerable. In the deals with the Sharks and Hurricanes for the three players, Nill traded Logan Stankoven, three first-round picks and, potentially, three third-round picks as well.