{"id":64823,"date":"2025-07-14T12:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64823\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:17:19","slug":"dallas-stars-make-up-their-mind-on-trading-expensive-player-per-elliotte-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64823\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars Make Up Their Mind on Trading Expensive Player, Per Elliotte Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Stars Make Up Their Mind on Trading Expensive Player, Per Elliotte Friedman<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>PUBLICATION<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/collaborators\/aaron\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJuly 14, 2025\u00a0\u00a0(3:06)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/578733.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger and defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin\" title=\"Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger and defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: FanSided<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tIt has been expected that the Dallas Stars would trade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Ilya-Lyubushkin-37122\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Ilya Lyubushkin profile and hockey stats\">Ilya Lyubushkin<\/a> this summer, but, per Elliotte Friedman, that is no longer the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Stars are in a difficult spot as a franchise. They have faced the best of the best in the conference finals in recent years, and have unfortunately fallen short.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, a large part of their loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Connor-McDavid-32886\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Connor McDavid profile and hockey stats\">Connor McDavid<\/a>&#8216;s Edmonton Oilers was the right side of their defense. While superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Miro-Heiskanen-53402\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Miro Heiskanen profile and hockey stats\">Miro Heiskanen<\/a> plays well on his off side, the remaining options were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Matt-Dumba-25467\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Matt Dumba profile and hockey stats\">Matt Dumba<\/a>, Ilya Lyubushkin, and Alex Petrovic.<\/p>\n<p>Dumba was traded earlier this week to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for younger, cheaper depth defenseman Ilya Kolyachonok, but that is purely addition by subtraction.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars have no interest in moving Ilya Lyubushkin, they felt that he was a good depth player for them<\/p>\n<p>We will see if this is the right move for the Stars, who have more big contracts to shell out in the coming months, including to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Jason-Robertson-43354\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Jason Robertson profile and hockey stats\">Jason Robertson<\/a>. Lyubushkin&#8217;s deal runs through 2026-27, so this appears to simply be placing a decision to a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on <b>HouseOfHockey<\/b><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ttt30blc lh30 pb20 pt20\" style=\"background-color:#EC3400;border-radius:20px 20px 0px 0px;\" colspan=\"3\">POLL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"p15\" colspan=\"3\">\n<p>7 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0144 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars Make Up Their Mind on Trading Expensive Player, Per Elliotte Friedman<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the Dallas Stars are a better team than they were last season?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"pl15 pr15 pb5\"\/><\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"pl15 pr15 pb5\"\/><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHOUSEOFHOCKEY.NET<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars Make Up Their Mind on Trading Expensive Player, Per Elliotte Friedman PUBLICATION Aaron July 14, 2025\u00a0\u00a0(3:06)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,27290,46169,46168,40884,1334,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-64823","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-elliotte-friedman","12":"tag-ilya-kolyachonok","13":"tag-ilya-lyubushkin","14":"tag-matt-dumba","15":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114851547991324658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64823","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=64823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}