In collaboration with Upper Deck, The Hockey News will be covering the best active homegrown player for each NHL team. Jake Oettinger has earned the nomination for the Dallas Stars, and here's why.

and NBA championship rings (Jason Kidd as a player and assistant coach), it might seem odd to call Stars head coach Pete DeBoer the best in Dallas. But like his more famous local counterparts ...

Thanks to a slow start, an array of injuries to key players and a mid-season coaching ... and nobody does that better than Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn. One of the things that makes the 15 ...

The Stars are 22-9-4 (48 points ... The 39-year-old veteran has been one of Dallas' best players again, tallying 14 goals and 20 assists without missing any of the first 35 games.