Dallas Stars 2019 Offseason Thread

[Longhorn_Fan68 34102]

We've had a bit of time to lick our wounds and now we start preparing for next season. With the first new signing of the offseason happening today, this seems as good a time as any to start this thread.

https://www.nhl.com/stars/news/dallas-stars-sign-defenseman-esa-lindell-to-six-year-contract-extension/c-307421984

[Longhorn_Fan68 34102]

just got around to looking at our cap situation going into next season. Rumor is it's going to be raised to $83.5M.

we have a ton of free agents. jesus, Nill is going to have his hands full this offseason

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/stars

[Longhorn_Fan68 34102]

My take:

Spezza - Ship out

Zucc - Re-sign with gusto

Janmark - re-sign?

Ritchie - gtfo

Dickinson - give the man a paycheck

Lovejoy - lock him up

Polak - sign again, to short contract

Honka - trade bait

Fedun - re-sign

Other noteables:

- Nuke, while not a FA, will either play out his contract or become trade bait

- I don't see Methot returning and Johns will probably stay pending whether he can overcome his headaches or not.

- Hanzal would be smart to retire. Buy he'll likely collect another year's worth of pay and then do so, unfortunately

 

 

[Firemans4Horn 18528]

Lovejoy, Pollack and fedun are a bunch of deadweight non-puck movers. Keep 1 of the first 2 for the pk and bottom line pairing. Methot and johns are non factors as well. Going to need to sign a 2nd pairing d-man that can get the puck out of their own zone. 

[Schulz2.0 29280]

5 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

My take:

Spezza - Ship out

Zucc - Re-sign with gusto

Janmark - re-sign?

Ritchie - gtfo

Dickinson - give the man a paycheck

Lovejoy - lock him up

Polak - sign again, to short contract

Honka - trade bait

Fedun - re-sign

Other noteables:

- Nuke, while not a FA, will either play out his contract or become trade bait

- I don't see Methot returning and Johns will probably stay pending whether he can overcome his headaches or not.

- Hanzal would be smart to retire. Buy he'll likely collect another year's worth of pay and then do so, unfortunately

 

 

Pierre LeBrun is reporting that Spezza won’t be resigned.