{"id":533094,"date":"2026-03-31T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533094\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:35:15","slug":"dallas-stars-strike-contract-extension-with-general-manager-jim-nill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533094\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars strike contract extension with general manager Jim Nill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General manager Jim Nill agreed to a contract extension with the club, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2039009205906989504\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal have not yet been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old Nill has been GM of the Stars since April 2013. He has won the Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award in each of the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Under Nill&#8217;s watch, the Stars have made the playoffs in eight of the 12 seasons, including a current streak of three straight conference finals and a Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars (44-18-12) currently sit second in the tough Central Division with 100 points in 74 games. They trail only division rival Colorado Avalanche in the overall league standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"General manager Jim Nill agreed to a contract extension with the club, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-533094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116324763250828395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}