The Texas Stars are an announced American Hockey League team. They will begin play in Cedar Park, Texas in the 2009-10 AHL season. [1] [2] The team will be the top affiliate of the NHL Dallas Stars. In April 2008, the Iowa Stars announced that they would no longer affiliate with the Dallas Stars, and changed the team's nickname to Chops for the 2008-09 season. [3] For the 2008-09 season, Dallas made agreements to send their AHL prospects to four other teams, while a few remained with the Chops. [4] AHL teams which the Dallas Stars sent prospects to were the Hamilton Bulldogs, Manitoba Moose, Peoria Rivermen, and Grand Rapids Griffins. [5] On April 28, 2009, the AHL granted the Texas Stars limited membership into the league. The limited membership is conditioned on the completed purchase of an existing AHL franchise within one year. [6] [7]

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Current players in the system

Players currently under contract for the Dallas Stars playing in leagues other than the NHL. ^[8]

s of ^[]:

Goaltenders
#		align=left	Player	Catches	Date of birth	Place of birth
-		Richard Bachman	L	July 25, 1987	Salt Lake City, Utah
1		Tyler Beskorowany	L	April 28, 1990	Sudbury, Ontario
33		Matt Climie	L	February 11, 1983	Leduc, Alberta
-		Pat McGann	R	January 27, 1987	Evergreen Park, Illinois

Defensemen
#		align=left	Player	Shoots	Date of birth	Place of birth
-		Mike Bergin	L	June 30, 1988	Kanata, Ontario
27		Maxime Fortunus	L	June 28, 1983	Longueil, Quebec
-		Philip Larsen	R	December 7, 1989	Esbjerg, Denmark
-		Trevor Ludwig	L	May 24, 1985	Montreal, Quebec
37		Garret Stafford	R	January 28, 1980	Los Angeles, California
55		Ivan Vishnevskiy	L	February 18, 1988	Barnaul, Russia

Forwards
#		align=left	Player	Shoots	Date of birth	Place of birth
70		Jamie Benn	L	July 18, 1989	Victoria, BC
61		Aaron Gagnon	R	April 24, 1986	Quesnel, BC
52		Luke Gazdic	L	July 25, 1989	Toronto, Ontario
32		Sergei Korostin	L	July 5, 1989	Prokopievsk, Russia
54		John Lammers	L	January 29, 1986	Bowmanville, Ontario
32		Perttu Lindgren	L	August 26, 1987	Tampere, Finland
-		Michael Neal	L	April 3, 1989	Whitby, Ontario
53		Ondrej Roman	L	April 8, 1989	Ostrava, Czech Republic
-		Nico Sacchetti	R	August 21, 1989	Virginia, Minnesota
12		Raymond Sawada	R	February 19, 1985	Richmond, BC
57		Colton Sceviour	R	April 20, 1989	Red Deer, Alberta
23		Tyler Shelast	R	December 26, 1984	Kelowna, BC
-		Austin Smith	R	November 7, 1988	Dallas, Texas
42		Matthew Tassone	L	September 28, 1989	Edmonton, Alberta
23		Tom Wandell	L	January 29, 1987	Sodertalje, Sweden
58		Francis Wathier	L	December 7, 1984	St. Isidore, Ontario
-		Matt Watkins	L	Nov 22, 1986	Regina, Saskatchewan
-		Scott Winkler	R	February 22, 1990	Asker, Norway

Leadership

Head coach

Glen Gulutzan ^[9]

Team captain

• TBD

General manager

• Scott White (since November 2008) ^[10]

Team president

• Rick McLaughlin (since June 2008) ^[11]

References

1. Events center deal will bring Dallas Stars affiliate to Cedar Park
2. Cedar Park leaders praise planned events center
3. Iowa Stars and Dallas End Affiliation Agreement
4. Stars have high hopes for kids
5. Steelheads' lost affiliate creates new situation
6. Austin, Abbotsford, Glens Falls joining AHL in 2009-10
7. Texas Stars to play in Cedar Park next season
8. in the system
9. http://stars.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=425795
10. White to Head Texas Stars
11. Cedar Park Event Center Breaks Ground