{"id":1148,"date":"2025-06-21T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1148\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T02:32:08","slug":"dallas-stars-sign-mavrik-bourque-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1148\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars Sign Mavrik Bourque To One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/06\/dallas-stars-sign-nils-lundkvist-to-one-year-deal.html\" rel=\"noopener\">announcing<\/a> a new one-year deal for defenseman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundkni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nils Lundkvist<\/a><\/strong>, the Dallas Stars have signed their only remaining restricted free agent. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DallasStars\/status\/1936129427722641646\">According to a team announcement<\/a>, the Stars have signed forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bourqma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mavrik Bourque<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year, $950K contract for the 2025-26 NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>Re-signing Bourque relatively early was a smart play by General Manager <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nillji01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jim Nill<\/a><\/strong>. Given their projected salary cap space entering the summer and Bourque\u2019s combination of youth and skill, he was a prime offer sheet candidate this offseason. Now, he\u2019ll remain with the Stars on a sub-$1MM deal.<\/p>\n<p>The only concern with this deal is that Dallas was unable to secure a longer contract for him. According to PuckPedia, the Stars have less than $3MM in financial wiggle room, meaning they were practically forced to give Bourque a short-term deal to keep the salary low.<\/p>\n<p>Despite already having solid players at the NHL level, Bourque forced himself onto the NHL roster this past season. Bourque had a historic season with the AHL\u2019s Texas Stars in 2023-24, scoring 26 goals and accumulating 77 points in 71 games, along with three goals and 11 points in seven playoff contests. He likely had to buy a new shelf for his hardware, earning the AHL\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cunnile01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Les Cunningham<\/a><\/strong> Award, John B. Sollenberger Trophy, President\u2019s Award, and First All-Star Team honors.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the depth of the Stars\u2019 roster, Bourque had limited opportunities in 2024-25. Still, he had a quality rookie season, scoring 11 goals and 25 points in 72 games, averaging 12:41 of ice time per game. Despite finishing 11th among forwards with more than 20 GPs in ice time at even strength, Bourque finished third among forwards in CorsiFor% at even strength with a 52.6% rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly after announcing a new one-year deal for defenseman Nils Lundkvist, the Dallas Stars have signed their only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1320,1332,1649,293,62,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-1148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-dallas-stars","9":"tag-mavrik-bourque","10":"tag-newsstand","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-transactions","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114719014848040438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}