How Dallas Stars Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

26 of the 26 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

North Stars founded Minnesota joins the NHL in its first great wave of expansion
Bill Masterton dies A North Stars forward becomes the league's only on-ice fatality
First run to the semifinals Minnesota wins its opening playoff rounds to reach the final four
Merged with the Barons The club absorbs the Cleveland Barons and drafts Bobby Smith first overall
First Stanley Cup Final Minnesota reaches its first Final and loses to the Islanders
Ciccarelli's rookie record A first-year winger sets a rookie mark with 55 goals
Broten reaches 100 points A North Star becomes the first American-born player to hit the century mark
Drafted Mike Modano Minnesota selects the future franchise center first overall
Second Stanley Cup Final A surprise run ends in a Cup Final loss to Pittsburgh
Moved to Dallas The North Stars relocate to Texas and drop 'North' from the name
Modano's 50-goal season The center pots 50 in the club's first Texas campaign
Signed Ed Belfour Dallas lands the veteran goalie to backstop a rising contender
First Presidents' Trophy Dallas signs Brett Hull and posts the league's best record
Won the Stanley Cup Brett Hull's disputed triple-overtime goal beats Buffalo for the title
Lost the Stanley Cup Final The title defense ends in a double-overtime Game 6 loss to New Jersey
American Airlines Center opens Dallas leaves Reunion Arena for a new downtown building
Modano's US scoring record The center passes everyone to lead all American-born players in points
Overtime run to the conference final Brenden Morrow's marathon overtime goal sinks San Jose
Tom Gaglardi buys the club A Canadian businessman purchases the franchise out of bankruptcy
Traded for Tyler Seguin Dallas acquires the young center in a blockbuster with Boston
Benn wins the scoring title The captain edges the field for the league's Art Ross Trophy
Topped the Western Conference Dallas finishes with the West's best record for the first time in Texas
Double-overtime Game 7 loss A grueling second-round series ends against St. Louis in extra time
Reached the bubble Final In a pandemic playoff, Dallas reaches the Final and loses to Tampa Bay
Conference final under DeBoer Dallas returns to the final four before losing to Vegas
Back-to-back conference finals A division-winning season ends in another final-four defeat to Edmonton