Petersen worked the last two seasons with the Colorado Avalanche as skills coach where he worked to enhance and maximize the development of Avalanche and Colorado Eagles players

The Dallas Stars hired Toby Petersen as the next head coach of the Texas Stars, their AHL affiliate, on Monday. Petersen succeeds Neil Graham, who interviewed for the Dallas Stars’ Head Coach opening and was named an assistant on Glen Gulutzan’s staff.

The Dallas Stars have hired Glen Gulutzan as their head coach 12 years after he was fired from his first stint with them by the general manager who is still there. GM Jim Nill, who in 2013 had been with the Stars for only two weeks when he decided not to retain Gulutzan,