Staff Photographer
Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi, center, walks to the American Airlines Center with long time friend Jim Mitchell form Calgary for the Dallas Stars hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks at the AAC in Dallas, Texas Sunday, February 26, 2012. (Brad Loper/The Dallas Morning News)
In a lot of ways, Tom Gaglardi was destined to own the Stars.
The Vancouver businessman made a failed bid to buy his hometown Canucks in 2004 which ended in bitter disappointment. So when Gaglardi got a second chance at NHL ownership in Texas, it seemed appropriate that it was where his mom grew up and where he made a lot of childhood memories.