SHOOTING STAR

LIKE A FLASH IN THE DALLAS SKY, JASON ROBERTSON IS LIGHTING UP THE NHL AS A SUDDENLY ELITE GOAL-SCORER AND HART TROPHY CANDIDATE. GOOD GUY, TRIES HARD, LOVES THE GAME? YOU GOT IT

BY JARED CLINTON

WHEN YOU’VE been a part of the whole big-league management racket as long as Jim Nill – and the Dallas Stars architect and reigning GM of the year has spent more than three decades in NHL front offices – you come to learn a thing or two about tempering expectations. You realize success is a rare and fleeting thing, that the past holds no promise for the future and that even the seemingly sure things are anything but. That last one applies particularly, though not exclusively, to the business of the NHL draft. This is to say that Nill, despite having had a front-row seat to the development of late-round gems such as Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg and a legitimate NHL roster’s worth of other non-first-round talent while with the…

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