{"id":247514,"date":"2025-10-29T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247514\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:51:11","slug":"sources-dallas-stars-d-thomas-harley-nets-8-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247514\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Dallas Stars D Thomas Harley nets 8-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4565239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Harley<\/a> has agreed to sign an eight-year extension with the club, a contract that features an average annual value just below $10.6 million, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Emily Kaplan on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes with a full no-movement clause past Years 1 through 3, sources told Kaplan, and secures a key cog in Dallas&#8217; blue line as the Stars seek their first trip to the Stanley Final since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/46521675\/nhl-2025-26-teams-standings-predictions-stanley-cup-playoffs-divisions\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1557046_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/46744969\/nhl-2025-26-watch-all-32-teams-top-players-stats-records-playoffs\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1566997_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Harley, 24, a native of Syracuse, New York, has one goal and eight points this season heading into Dallas&#8217; home game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-capitals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> on Tuesday night. He skated in 79 and 78 games, respectively, for the Stars across the past two campaigns and posted a career-high 50 points last season.<\/p>\n<p>Harley, whose parents are Canadian, received the call to join Team Canada earlier this year midway through the 4 Nations Face-Off. He was an injury replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4233563\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cale Makar<\/a>, and Harley was with the club when it won the championship game in Boston. In the final, a 3-2 win over Team USA, Harley finished with an assist in 31 shifts that covered 21:56 of ice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars defenseman Thomas Harley has agreed to sign an eight-year extension with the club, a contract that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-247514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}