{"id":56044,"date":"2025-08-09T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56044\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:30:11","slug":"stars-sign-nathan-bastian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56044\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Sign Nathan Bastian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stars have added some depth on the wing as the team announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve signed Nathan Bastian<\/a> to a one-year, one-way contract.\u00a0 The agreement will pay the league minimum of $775K.\u00a0 GM Jim Nill released the following statement:<\/p>\n

Nathan will add forward depth and a physical presence to our lineup, both of which will be valuable to our organization. We\u2019re looking forward to watching him take the next step of his career with the Stars and are excited to welcome him to Dallas.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old has parts of six NHL seasons under his belt, most of which came with New Jersey, which drafted him in the second round back in 2016.\u00a0 Before now, his only time away from the Devils since that time came when Seattle selected him in the 2021 Expansion Draft but just two months later, the Kraken waived Bastian with New Jersey quickly reclaiming him.<\/p>\n

Last season, Bastian played in 59 games for the Devils, picking up four goals and six assists along with 138 hits in just under 11 minutes per night of playing time.\u00a0 That stat line lines up with most of his seasons as he has yet to reach 20 points in a single year while he has only hit the double-digit mark in goals once, that coming back in 2021-22.\u00a0 However, he averages 223 hits per 82 games played, giving the Stars some extra physicality in their lineup.<\/p>\n

Dallas has largely stayed quiet as expected in free agency this season with the bulk of their moves coming from either re-signing players or making trades.\u00a0 As things stand, he\u2019s likely to battle with Oskar Back<\/a> and Colin Blackwell<\/a> for playing time on the fourth line while starting out as the 13th forward is a realistic outcome as well.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the Stars project to be very tight against the salary cap with a 23-player roster coming in just a few hundred thousand below the Upper Limit, per PuckPedia<\/a>.\u00a0 Accordingly, this could very well be it for their free agent moves with a big chunk of their roster from last season\u2019s run to the Western Conference Final returning as from here on out, any addition will require money coming off their books as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stars have added some depth on the wing as the team announced that they\u2019ve signed Nathan Bastian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7521,46316,10232,575,85,206],"class_list":["post-56044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dallas-stars","tag-nathan-bastian","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56044","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=56044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}