Dallas Stars Trivia
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59 free Dallas Stars trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
The Dallas Stars started life as the Minnesota North Stars, nearly became the Los Angeles Stars, and only landed in Texas because Roger Staubach convinced Norm Green it would work. This Stars trivia quiz covers the whole story: the 1978 merger with the Cleveland Barons, the Gund brothers and San Jose, Neal Broten's first goal in Dallas, Ken Hitchcock, Ed Belfour, Brett Hull's disputed triple-overtime goal in 1999, the crease rule it killed, the 2000 rematch with New Jersey, Marty Turco's 1.76, the 'Mooterus' jersey and 'Cinco De Morrow'. It then follows the bankruptcy and Tom Gaglardi's takeover, Victory Green, Jim Nill's trade for Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn's Art Ross by a single point, the 2020 Winter Classic at the Cotton Bowl, the bubble run to the Final, Jake Oettinger's 64 saves and Jason Robertson's 109-point season. Easy questions for casual fans sit beside genuinely hard ones about the North Stars era. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01Which NHL trophy for perseverance honours a North Stars centre who died after hitting his head on the ice in 1968?
Masterton Trophy
The Masterton Trophy remembers Bill Masterton, who like most players of his day wore no helmet; his death began a long debate that ended with the NHL making helmets compulsory for new players in 1979.
Q 02Which failing franchise merged with the North Stars in 1978?
Cleveland Barons
The Cleveland Barons' owners, the Gund brothers, ended up running the merged club, which kept the North Stars name and reached the Stanley Cup Final three years later.
Q 03Blocked from moving the North Stars in 1990, the Gund brothers sold up and were awarded which expansion team instead?
San Jose Sharks
The San Jose Sharks started out in 1991 with the North Stars' general manager and several of their prospects, all part of the deal that kept Minnesota's team at home a little longer.
Q 04Which team beat the North Stars in the 1991 Stanley Cup Final?
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins ended an unlikely run: Minnesota had a losing record in the regular season, yet knocked out the league's two best teams and the defending champions to get there.
Q 05Before choosing Dallas, Norm Green planned to move the North Stars to which city, until Disney claimed it for a team?
Anaheim
Anaheim was building a new arena, and Green meant to call his team the Los Angeles Stars; when the NHL asked him to step aside for Disney's Mighty Ducks, it let him pick any other open market.
Q 06Which former Cowboys quarterback convinced Norm Green that Dallas could support an NHL team?
Roger Staubach
The move was announced on March 10, 1993, and the NHL promised the Twin Cities a future team.
Q 07Which Minnesota native fittingly scored the first Stars goal in Dallas in October 1993?
Neal Broten
Neal Broten scored twice that night in a 6-4 win over Detroit; traded to New Jersey 17 games into the 1995 season, he won the Stanley Cup there that spring.
Q 08Which businessman bought the Stars from a cash-strapped Norm Green in December 1995?
Tom Hicks
Tom Hicks went on to buy baseball's Texas Rangers and half of Liverpool FC, but his debts later pushed the Stars into a 2011 bankruptcy sale.
Q 09Which prospect did Dallas send to Calgary in the 1995 trade for Joe Nieuwendyk?
Jarome Iginla
Jarome Iginla went on to score 625 NHL goals and captain Calgary for a decade, while Joe Nieuwendyk repaid Dallas as playoff MVP of its 1999 championship.
Q 10Which coach, hired in January 1996 with no NHL head-coaching experience, guided Dallas to the 1999 Stanley Cup?
Ken Hitchcock
Ken Hitchcock came up from the club's minor-league affiliate when Bob Gainey left the bench to be full-time general manager, and within four seasons his defence-first team were champions.
Q 11Which star goalie signed with Dallas as a free agent in 1997 after a brief stay with San Jose?
Ed Belfour
Ed Belfour had cost San Jose three players in a January trade and played only 13 games there before leaving that summer; in Dallas he won the 1999 Stanley Cup.
Q 12Which enforcer injured Joe Nieuwendyk's knee in the 1998 playoffs, costing Dallas its top scorer?
Bryan Marchment
Bryan Marchment's check in the playoff opener tore Nieuwendyk's ACL; without their 39-goal centre, the top-seeded Stars fell to Detroit in the conference finals.
Q 13Brett Hull signed with Dallas in 1998 after a falling-out with which team's management?
St. Louis Blues
Q 21Fans mocked the Stars' 2003-06 alternate jersey because its bull-shaped crest looked like which body part?
A uterus
A uterus is what fans saw, so the sweater became the 'Mooterus'; the crest was meant to be a bull built from stars, a nod to the constellation Taurus.
Q 22Which Stars rookie scored on 10 of 13 shootout attempts in 2005-06, the NHL's first season of shootouts?
Jussi Jokinen
Jussi Jokinen scored on his first nine shootout attempts, and by late January the Stars were a perfect 8-0 in games decided that way.
Q 23Whose American-born goals record did the Stars' franchise scoring leader break in March 2007?
Joe Mullen
The St. Louis Blues had watched him score 70 goals or more three seasons running, yet lost him when they refused to put a no-trade clause in his new contract.
Q 14Which Stars forward won the Selke Trophy for defensive play in 1999?
Jere Lehtinen
Jere Lehtinen won the Selke for the second year running, and the Stars rode that defence-first game to a franchise-record 114 points and their first Stanley Cup that June.
Q 15Whom did Dallas beat in the 1999 Stanley Cup Final?
Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres scored just once in the final two games, smothered by a Dallas team that had allowed the fewest goals in the NHL that season.
Q 16Brett Hull's 1999 Cup-winning goal was disputed under which regulation, repealed the next season?
The crease rule
The crease rule wiped out any goal scored with an attacker's skate in the blue paint; Hull's was, but officials ruled he had kept possession, and the losing side's fans still call the play 'No Goal'.
Q 17Which goalie conceded Dallas's triple-overtime Cup-winning goal in the 1999 Final?
Dominik Hasek
Dominik Hasek blocked Brett Hull's first shot but not the rebound, at 14:51 of the third overtime; his team protested that the goal was illegal, but the Stars were already celebrating with the Cup.
Q 18Which Devils forward scored the double-overtime goal that beat Dallas in the 2000 Final?
Jason Arnott
Jason Arnott's goal in Game 6 ended the Stars' title defence on their own ice; two years later Dallas traded for him, sending Joe Nieuwendyk the other way.
Q 19Which Stars goalie's 1.72 goals-against average in 2002-03 was the lowest since 1940?
Marty Turco
Marty Turco did it in his first season as the starter, yet finished only second in the Vezina Trophy vote, and Miikka Kiprusoff beat his mark the very next year.
Q 20Which Mighty Ducks goalie made 60 saves in the five-overtime 2003 playoff opener against Dallas?
Jean-Sebastien Giguere
Jean-Sebastien Giguere kept it up all spring: his team won this series in six, and he was named playoff MVP even though the Mighty Ducks lost the Stanley Cup Final.
Joe Mullen, raised in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, was the first American to score 500 NHL goals and retired with 502; the Dallas centre tied and passed him with two in one night.
Q 24Which future star did the Stars find 129th overall, in the fifth round of the 2007 draft?
Jamie Benn
Jamie Benn went from fifth-round afterthought to the top of the sport: eight years after that draft he won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer.
Q 25Which two men shared an unusual 'co-general manager' role in Dallas from 2007?
Les Jackson and Brett Hull
Les Jackson and Brett Hull took over when Doug Armstrong was fired that November; their deadline trade for Brad Richards helped carry Dallas to the 2008 conference finals.
Q 26The captain's fourth-overtime series winner against San Jose in 2008 was nicknamed what by Stars fans?
Cinco De Morrow
Cinco De Morrow marks the date: Brenden Morrow deflected in the winner at 9:03 of the fourth overtime, in the small hours of May 5, Cinco de Mayo.
Q 27Which Stars free-agent signing drew a six-game NHL suspension in December 2008 for crude remarks about his ex-girlfriends?
Sean Avery
Sean Avery never played for Dallas again: his coach and team-mates let it be known they would not take him back, and he finished the season with the Rangers after being claimed on waivers.
Q 28Which Vancouver businessman bought the Stars out of bankruptcy in 2011?
Tom Gaglardi
Tom Gaglardi, whose family runs hotels and restaurants, had years earlier lost a bid for the Vancouver Canucks to his former partner Francesco Aquilini, then lost the court fight that followed.
Q 29Which star did Dallas acquire from Boston in 2013 for Loui Eriksson and prospects?
Tyler Seguin
Tyler Seguin was only 21 and already a Stanley Cup winner when Boston moved him on; in his first Dallas season he scored 37 goals, eight more than his best as a Bruin.
Q 30The Stars' captain won the 2015 Art Ross Trophy by one point over which player?
John Tavares
John Tavares led the race going into the final night, when the Dallas captain piled up three goals and then a secondary assist inside the last ten seconds to finish one point clear.