• The Dallas Stars will retire defenseman Sergei Zubov's number 56 ahead of Friday night's game against Washington.
• Zubov spent 12 of his 16 NHL seasons as a member of the Stars, registering 549 points (111 goals, 438 assists) in 839 regular-season contests.
• Among franchise leaders (1967-present), the blueliner ranks third in assists and plus/minus rating (+103), fifth in games played and seventh in points.
• Zubov is the franchise leader among defensemen in numerous statistical categories including points, goals, assists, games played, power-play goals (60), plus/minus and shots on goal (1,694).
• Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November 2019, Zubov recorded 771 points (152 goals, 619 assists) in 1,068 regular-season contests over 16 NHL seasons for the Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers.
• His 771 points are the second-most ever recorded by a Russian-born defenseman and rank 20th among all defensemen in NHL history.
• Zubov won two Stanley Cups in his career, once with New York in 1994 when he finished tied for seventh in the NHL and ranking second among league defensemen with 19 points (five goals, 14 assists) in 22 contests and again with Dallas in 1999.