DALLAS, Tex. – Les Jackson has held a lot of jobs within the Stars’ organization since being hired in 1984, most famously the co-General Manager role he shared with Brett Hull from 2007-09. He’s currently the senior adviser to Stars GM Jim Nill, a job he fulfills with a wealth of knowledge about how this franchise has operated for decades.



And in all that time with the Stars, he only remembers once when the team seriously considered doing a complete teardown in order to try and move to the top of the draft.



It was 1991, and the Oshawa Generals had a kid named Eric Lindros who was going to change the game as a 6-foot-4, highly-skilled center who could do everything.



Bobby Clarke was the general manager of the North Stars at the time, and there was a real temptation to try and get a crack at Lindros, with a young Mike Modano already on the roster.



“We talked about going right to the bottom,” Jackson told The Athletic...