Jim Nill - Dallas Stars GM on life in the NHL, coming to faith later in life and the patience of God

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jim Nill is the general manager of the Dallas Stars. In 2023, he was awarded the NHL's Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award after Dallas posted 108 points and 47 wins, their highest total in seven years.

Before going into the front office, Nill was a player, selected by the St. Louis Blues in the 1978 NHL Draft. He made his NHL debut in 1981 and played a total of 10 seasons with the Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, Winnipeg Jets and Detroit Red Wings.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Jim Nill about saying yes to Jesus in his 40s, the importance of being patient, living out his life as a believer, and his experience at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I'm excited about today's conversation with Jim Nill. He is the Dallas Starz general manager in the NHL. He's also a former NHL player played for a long time with the blues, the Canucks, the Bruins, the Jets, the Red Wings. He was in college at the University of Calgary and then got a chance to represent his
0:22.0	country in Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. And we definitely talked about
0:27.8	the USA miracle and just that experience that he had at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York
0:34.8	back in 1980. He since moved on and it was hired as the general manager of the Dallas Stars in April of 2013.
0:43.6	But his story of faith is really what got me going.
0:47.2	What got my juices flowing was hearing that this guy, it wasn't until his 40s, until he finally surrendered and said, yes, I'm all in with Jesus. God has been
0:58.8	patient with Jim Nill and man, does he have a story to tell now here as he's in his 60s and doing
1:05.4	great things with the Dallas Stars as a general manager? He was the general manager of the year in the
1:10.8	NHL last season, 2022, 2023, when Dallas posted 47 wins, 108 points, had a great season.
1:19.5	Jim Nill is our guest today on Sports Spectrum. It's coming up in just a moment. First,
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