Trending: Stars, Cowboys trade Twitter jabs

Who says the @LAKings have cornered the market on Twitter sass when it comes to NHL franchises?

After the Dallas Cowboys tweeted out a smart-aleck blow at the NHL’s ended lockout, the Stars responded with pictorial haymaker.

“Similarly in the category of nobody-cares…the NHL is back!” the NFL team, which failed to qualify for a wild-card spot, tweeted (and has since deleted).

The Stars retorted with a quick Mike Modano-Tony Romo comparison:

The snippy exchange was quickly smoothed over as the Cowboys, presumably red-faced, apologized:

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