Lisa Bry expected a standard meet-and-greet when she visited the manager of the local ice rink.
Instead, she says that a front-office executive for a $2 billion National Hockey League team threatened her.
Bry had just been elected president of Frisco Ice Hockey Association, a nonprofit hockey club for middle and high school students in Frisco, Texas. One of its board’s first actions under her leadership was to cancel the contracts of two coaches who had received dismal reviews from parent feedback surveys.
But at the April 2023 meeting, Bry said Dallas Stars executive Keith Andresen told her that the Stars, which ran the rink where the club practices, wanted those coaches to stay.
His next words are seared in her memory:
