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Mike Modano has officially retired.
He will sign with the Dallas Stars this morning and hang up the proverbial and actual skates.
I don't need to write anything here. I do not need to explain to you what Modano has meant to American hockey, to the Dallas Stars and to the city of Dallas.
Not many people could go to another team -- much less than your hated foe -- and no one in a city could blame him.
We did not begrudge Modano his decision to go into free agency and join the Detroit Red Wings. In fact, there was more backlash on the Stars for not giving him a best friend contract.
Modano played just 40 games at the age of 40 notching 15 points. Still, it's his career and his decision. He deserves it. (Do not feel bad for Modano ... he has sex with this.)
In the pantheon of Dallas-Fort Worth athletes, Modano is at the top. He shares a stage with Dirk Nowitzki (whose careers are eerily simaliar), Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman and any other athlete you'd like to argue as being in the top tier of good players, important athletes and good guys.
Modano is what Mike Young should aim to be. Gracious, kind, a pillar of the community and a guy that handles things gracefully and without malice.
Young does not do this. Modano did and does. Granted, Modano had a good Stars team around him, won a Stanley Cup and went to another. But Modano didn't always have great teams. He still worked, took demotions with grace and wound up being loved by an entire city.
Modano will quit having a Stanley Cup, having a really nice career and being adored by north Texas. That has to be pretty sweet.
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