{"id":30120,"date":"2025-07-01T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30120\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:59:08","slug":"following-along-with-the-dallas-stars-latest-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30120\/","title":{"rendered":"Following along with the Dallas Stars\u2019 latest moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">NHL free agency opens on Tuesday, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> are preparing to put some final touches on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">After reaching the Western Conference finals in three consecutive years and firing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/06\/dallas-stars-part-ways-with-head-coach-pete-deboer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Pete DeBoer<\/a> earlier this month, the Stars are looking to reload heading into the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas has already made a handful of moves with its own players since the season ended, such as re-signing captain Jamie Benn. But there is still <a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/dallas-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/dallas-stars\">some money left<\/a> to be spent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Below we will be keeping track of what Dallas does once the market opens:<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p>2025 NHL free agency <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">&#8211; The 2025 NHL free agency market opens at 11 a.m. CT on Tuesday, July 1. The vast majority of moves will be made that day before the NHL largely goes quiet until training camp.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good morning. NHL free agency opens in just under two hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars have $1.76 million in cap space to sign three depth forwards. Wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they made some moves on the blue line as well, but with seven defensemen under contract, it would likely require a trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lia Assimakopoulos (@Lassimak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lassimak\/status\/1940052872369942736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which Stars are unrestricted free agents?<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><b>Forwards<\/b>: Evgenii Dadonov (36), Mikael Granlund (33), Colin Blackwell (32)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><b>Defensemen<\/b>: Brendan Smith (36), Cody Ceci (31)<\/p>\n<p>Stars\u2019 offseason moves<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">&#8211; Re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/19\/dallas-stars-sign-forward-matt-duchene-to-4-year-18-million-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/19\/dallas-stars-sign-forward-matt-duchene-to-4-year-18-million-contract-extension\/\">Matt Duchene<\/a> to a four-year deal that pays him $4.5 million next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">&#8211; Traded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/19\/dallas-stars-trade-forward-mason-marchment-to-the-seattle-kraken-for-two-draft-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/19\/dallas-stars-trade-forward-mason-marchment-to-the-seattle-kraken-for-two-draft-picks\/\">Mason Marchment<\/a> to Seattle in exchange for draft picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">&#8211; Re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/20\/dallas-stars-sign-defenseman-nils-lundkvist-to-one-year-125-million-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/20\/dallas-stars-sign-defenseman-nils-lundkvist-to-one-year-125-million-contract-extension\/\">Nils Lundkvist<\/a> to a one-year deal worth $1.25 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">&#8211; Re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/20\/dallas-stars-sign-forward-mavrik-bourque-to-one-year-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/20\/dallas-stars-sign-forward-mavrik-bourque-to-one-year-contract-extension\/\">Mavrik Bourque<\/a> to a one-year deal worth $950,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">&#8211; Re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/26\/dallas-stars-re-sign-captain-jamie-benn-to-a-one-year-1-million-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/26\/dallas-stars-re-sign-captain-jamie-benn-to-a-one-year-1-million-deal\/\">Jamie Benn<\/a> to a one-year deal worth $1 million, plus incentives.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/30\/stars-unimaginative-hiring-of-glen-gulutzan-would-feel-like-brian-schottenheimer-times-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stars\u2019 unimaginative hiring of Glen Gulutzan would feel like Brian Schottenheimer times 10<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/30\/dallas-stars-extend-qualifying-offer-to-ahl-forward-antonio-stranges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars extend qualifying offer to AHL forward Antonio Stranges<\/a><\/ul>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL free agency opens on Tuesday, and the Dallas Stars are preparing to put some final touches on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,25715,19609,4810,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-30120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-jamie-benn","12":"tag-jim-nill","13":"tag-stars","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114778575155041473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120","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=30120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}