Glen Gulutzan didn’t shy away from his past when introduced as the Dallas Stars’ new head coach at American Airlines Center on Wednesday morning. In fact, he joked about it. “Twelve years ago, Jim actually sent me on a reconnaissance mission and that was up through western Canada — Vancouver,

Gulutzan spent the last seven seasons with Edmonton where the Oilers qualified for the postseason in six of the seven years and reached the Stanley Cup Final in each of the last two

The Dallas Stars have hired Glen Gulutzan as their head coach 12 years after he was fired from his first stint with them by the general manager who is still there. GM Jim Nill, who in 2013 had been with the Stars for only two weeks when he decided not to retain Gulutzan,