Gulutzan hired to coach Texas Stars

The Dallas Stars have hired Glen Gulutzan, who was previously the coach of the ECHL Las Vegas Wranglers and saw a great deal of success as the only coach of that team since its inception.

Here's Dallas Stars beat reporter Mike Heika's blog post on the matter with links to various places and some background.

Here's the Wranglers' press release.

Also, Paul Jerrard will join him as the Stars' assistant coach, having been with the Stars in Iowa and sticking around as an assistant to the Iowa Chops. Lucky him to escape that fiasco with Anaheim dumping their affiliate.