How did we get to the point where it became...complicated to talk about Mike Modano? The Dallas Stars’ greatest player is also one of the most important players ever to play any sport in Dallas. So it’s easy to count his decampments – to Detroit, to Arizona and now to Minnesota – as failures, either of his own or of the franchise he still represents.
Sean Shapiro took on the challenge of examining Modano’s impact on DFW sport for The Athletic’s 19 in ’19 series. And of course, the story is more.