Joe micheletti

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Early in the summer of 1993, when Mike Modano went from being a baby-faced Minnesota North Stars stud to getting a letter in the mail instructing him to report for Dallas Stars training camp by Sept. 10, he never envisioned he’d ever touch back down in the Twin Cities permanently.

On May 22, with a wife and five children in tow, he landed here at 2 p.m.

By 6 p.m. that night, two of Mike and Allison Modano’s kids were already at soccer practice.

By the following week, their children, ranging from ages 3 to 9, were signed up for activities like hockey, soccer, basketball, tennis and dance.

The kids have met so many friends and love Minnesota so much, they recently asked their parents if they could relocate here from Arizona permanently.

“They thought we were just visiting,” Modano, who has worked for the Wild as an executive adviser since 2019, said, laughing.

Life has sure changed for the 53-year-old Hall of Famer and NHL’s all-time top U.S-born scorer

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