{"id":20734,"date":"2025-06-28T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20734\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:05:14","slug":"dallas-stars-jim-nill-wins-third-straight-nhl-general-manager-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20734\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars\u2019 Jim Nill wins third straight NHL General Manager of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Jim Nill became the second two-time winner of the NHL\u2019s Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, the Dallas Stars GM officially made it a three-peat, beating out the Florida Panthers\u2019 Bill Zito, who built the defending Stanley Cup champions, and the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Kevin Cheveldayoff, whose team outran preseason expectations to win the Presidents\u2019 Trophy for the league\u2019s best record.<\/p>\n<p>Nill, the first three-time winner in the award\u2019s history, pulled off a remarkable deadline-day coup, acquiring star winger Mikko Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes and immediately signing him to a long-term extension. Rantanen started the season with the Avalanche, who sent him to Carolina on Jan. 25 when they believed their negotiations had hit a dead end. Carolina couldn\u2019t sell Rantanen on a long-term extension with the franchise, putting him back on the market as the deadline approached, and Nill pounced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t find players like Mikko Rantanen,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6376403\/2025\/05\/23\/stars-mikko-rantanent-trade-nill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nill told The Athletic\u2019s Mark Lazerus<\/a> in May. \u201cThat just doesn\u2019t happen. I\u2019ve been doing this a long time, and I can be in the game another 20 years and may never have this opportunity again. You just don\u2019t have the opportunity to get those guys very often. Worked out well for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, not well enough. The Stars have made the playoffs in eight of Nill\u2019s 12 seasons as their general manager; they\u2019ve also now lost in the Western Conference finals in three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas, though, remains on an undeniably long run of overall success. Rantanen\u2019s presence, along with that of players like Miro Heiskanen, Roope Hintz, Jake Oettinger, Jason Robertson and Wyatt Johnston \u2014 all drafted by Nill \u2014 have the Stars set up well for the future.<\/p>\n<p>The league first handed out the GM award after the 2009-10 season and renamed it in 2019 to honor Gregory, a longtime NHL executive, former Maple Leafs GM and Hockey Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo: LM Otero \/ AP Photo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Jim Nill became the second two-time winner of the NHL\u2019s Jim Gregory General Manager of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,1323,293,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,292],"class_list":{"0":"post-20734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-florida-panthers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114758780405458979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}