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Sunday, 03.09.2014 / 12:21 PM / Feature By Dan Rosen  - Senior
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Stars franchise Twenty years after the Minnesota North Stars
became the Dallas Stars, Mike Modano remains the one and only
face of the NHL\'s franchise in Texas.  Dallas Stars president
Jim Lites tells the story as if it happened yesterday. That's
how well he remembers it. That's how much the conversation Lites
had with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones nearly 20 years ago
resonates with him.  "I remember Jerry Jones saying to me about
two years into our stay here, 'Jim, I can't believe how much
success you guys have had, I never would have thought hockey
would be successful in Dallas,'" Lites told "And then he said,
'That Mike Modano is as important to this community as Troy
Aikman. I can't believe how dynamic he is.'  "I mean, the
Cowboys are the Cowboys and Troy Aikman