This season, Marc Crawford guided the Dallas Stars to the most points of any team in NHL history that didn't make the playoffs. It wasn't enough to keep his job, either. Crawford was fired Tuesday after just two seasons in charge. Although Dallas' playoff bid went to the final minutes of the regular season, general manager Joe Nieuwendyk seemed to have already decided his club needed another coach to become a contender for the Stanley Cup. "We have a lot of good things in place," Nieuwendyk said. "The hardest thing for Marc to probably accept [is] that I don't feel he's the guy going forward that takes us to the next level." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nhl/news/story?id=6338807