Stars hire Oilers assistant Glen Gulutzan as head coach, his 2nd stint with Dallas

Stephen Hawkins · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jul 01, 2025 12:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

The Dallas Stars person hired Glen Gulutzan arsenic their caput manager 12 years aft helium was fired from his archetypal stint with them.

General manager Jim Nill announced the determination Tuesday, with Gulutzan succeeding Peter DeBoer, who was fired pursuing the team's playoff elimination successful the Western Conference last for the 3rd play successful a row. Back successful 2013, Nill had been the GM for lone 2 weeks erstwhile helium fired Gulutzan.

Gulutzan, who turns 54 successful August, returns to Dallas aft spending the past 7 seasons arsenic an adjunct with the Edmonton Oilers, including the past 2 that ended with trips to the Stanley Cup Final.

"Since his erstwhile clip successful Dallas, Glen has worked tirelessly to found himself arsenic 1 of the astir respected coaches successful the NHL," Nill said. "His extended NHL experience, some arsenic a caput manager and adjunct coach, speaks to his quality to innovate and accommodate to the modern game, arsenic good arsenic physique relationships with his players. Glen has worked with immoderate of the champion players successful the satellite and continually recovered ways to maximize their accomplishment sets to lend to squad success. We person afloat assurance that helium is the close idiosyncratic to elevate our squad to the adjacent level."

The Stars announced the hiring of Gulutzan lone minutes aft the league's yearly escaped bureau signing play opened. They volition formally reintroduce him Wednesday astatine their location arena.

This is Gulutzan's 3rd occupation successful complaint of an NHL squad aft starring the Stars from 2011-13 and the Calgary Flames from 2016-18.

"My household and I are excited to travel backmost to Texas wherever I started my NHL coaching travel much than a decennary ago," Gulutzan said. "Jim and his unit person built a roster that is 1 of the astir talented and deepest successful the full League. The close pieces are successful spot to vie for the Stanley Cup connected a yearly basis. I'm acceptable to get to Dallas and commencement the mentation for adjacent season."

Oilers GM Stan Bowman hinted astatine the prosecute astatine his season-ending quality league by saying helium didn't privation to denote thing regarding Gulutzan.

This is Nill's sixth caput manager successful Dallas, wherever helium is going into his 13th season. Among his archetypal decisions aft becoming the GM was to not clasp Gulutzan, who was 64-57-9 successful his 2 seasons during the Stars' franchise-long agelong of 5 consecutive seasons missing the playoffs.

Gulutzan was 82-68-14 successful his 2 seasons coaching the Flames, who were swept successful their lone playoff quality with him.

Lindy Ruff was the archetypal Dallas manager hired by Nill, who made 2 playoff appearances successful 4 years earlier Ken Hitchcock returned for 1 play with the Stars, the squad helium led to its lone Stanley Cup rubric successful 1999 and was Western Conference champions again the adjacent season.

Hitchcock, the lone different caput manager with much than 1 stint successful Dallas, was followed by Jim Montgomery, Rick Bowness and DeBoer.

Assistant manager Alain Nasreddine and goaltending manager Jeff Reese are staying connected the Stars staff. The nine besides named Neil Graham arsenic an adjunct aft 10 seasons arsenic a caput manager successful their organization, the past six for the Texas successful the American Hockey League aft 4 with Idaho successful the ECHL.