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Dallas not getting money's worth

By By Jim Wilkie
NHL Insider

Monday, April 19, 2004

Both teams had their seasons end Saturday in the first round, but the prospects for the futures of the Dallas Stars and the Nashville Predators are as different as their payrolls. At one end, the Predators entered the season with a league-low $23.17 million payroll and the Stars had the third-highest at $67.59 million. Yet the gap in regular-season and playoff results is far closer, serving as a lesson in how to manage an NHL franchise in the current, uncertain marketplace. Dallas finished in ...

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