Dallas Stars GM Jim Nill discusses why the team fired Pete DeBoer 28:31. Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill said it was "time for a change," leading to the decision to fire head coach Pete ...

Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill confirmed Friday that Pete DeBoer's postgame comments about goaltender Jake Oettinger played a role in the head coach's firing."The events that took place ...

Kevin Cheveldayoff, Jim Nill, and Bill Zito are in contention. Cheveldayoff led the Winnipeg Jets to a record-breaking season. Jim Nill aims for his third consecutive award with the Dallas Stars.

Nill, who has served as the Stars' GM since 2013, previously finished in third place for the award in both 2019-20 and 2015-16. Th NHL first began honoring the "league’s most outstanding general ...

Nill, the longtime Detroit Red Wings assistant GM, on Friday was named a finalist the award, which he won the previous two seasons. The other finalists are Kevin Cheveldayoff of the Winnipeg Jets ...

Nill had known of Rantanen for more than a decade, dating to the run-up to the 2015 NHL Draft. The Stars had the 12th pick that year, and Rantanen went 10th to Colorado, so he was very much on ...

Nill also has a chance at winning the Jim Gregory Award for the third straight time as well after earning the honor in 2022-23 and 2023-24. Nill brought on Mikael Granlund and Cody Ceci in February.

Through clever strategies and transactions, Jim Nill transformed the Stars into true contenders for the playoffs. Major acquisitions like Mikko Rantanen, Cody Ceci, and Mikael Granlund improved ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nill cleared Radek Faksa’s $ 3.25 million salary off the Stars’ books by trading him to St. Louis on July 2. That was a day after he signed Ilya Lybushkin to a three-year deal worth $9.75 ...

Ruth Leone Crawford Nill was born November 13th, 1935, to Charles and Lillian Crawford in Rugby, North Dakota. She passed away on February 5th, 2025, at home in Eugene at the age of 89.