Alex's Rizocking Dallas Stars Page
Ok, this this page isn't as rizocking as advertized (says Michael), but you know, rizocking isn't even a word, so can't I claim that my page posesses the essence of it? I think so. On to hockey....
In 1999, the Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup. I am still celebrating this. In the third overtime of game seven against the Buffalo Sabres last season the cup was clintched by the Star's with Brett Hull's winning goal. Below is a picture of the team immidiatly following their win:
Though the Stars were not able to win the cup again the next season, they put in a good fight, and did not lose without their pride. Games five and six each went to at least double overtime; the Stars made the Devils earn their win. And to be honest, they did. Below is a picture of the 1999-2000 Dallas Stars team:
The Stars won the cup before. They'll win it again. In the meantime...
GO STARS!!!
All photos curtousy of The Dallas Morning News and The Offical Dallas Stars Page.
As soon as the North Stars became the Dallas Stars, I was addicted, and I became determined to play hockey myself. I took skating lessons, then joined the Dallas Junior Hockey Association and got on a Bantam-age team. There was only one other girl on my team, and it was obvious that the boys did not want us there. We weren't the only girls with that problem.
In the middle of the season, Mike Fornes, then the announcer for the Stars, formed an all-girls team, and I was one of the founding members. We began as a group of girls who had been playing on the coed teams, but soon others joined.
We played teams around Dallas: women's teams, boys' teams, but no girls' teams, as we were the only one in Dallas. And so our team became a travel team.
The next season, our first full one as a team, we went to and hosted a number of tournaments. We went to Vail to play Aspen, as well as hosting them at home. We went to Michigan to play in a tournament in Mackinaw City. We hosted a team from Anoka, Minnisota. We went to St. Hyacinthe, Quebec for a tournament up there, which was a cultural experience as well as a hockey one, as we had to speak French.
The team - Michigan tournament - Lake Michigan
As well as tournaments, we played at intermission of a Star's game, we were on the news, in the paper. We worked at the annual Skate with the Stars. Thanks to Mike Fornes, we were able to have oppurtunuties we wouldn't have otherwise had.
Our exhibition game at Reunion Arena
Mike moved back to Michigan at the end of our second season, and after that the team slowly fell apart. But during that season we had made our point. We were the first all girls ice hockey team in Texas, and we were letting everyone know we were there. We were making history. And I am so proud to have been a part of it.