{"id":517621,"date":"2026-03-06T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517621\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:53:08","slug":"bunting-traded-to-stars-by-predators-for-3rd-round-pick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517621\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunting traded to Stars by Predators for 3rd-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/michael-bunting-8478047\" title=\"Michael Bunting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bunting<\/a> was traded to the Dallas Stars by the Nashville Predators on Thursday for a third-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old forward has 31 points (13 goals, 18 assists) in 61 games for the Predators this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael is a tremendous addition to our roster,\u201d Stars general manager Jim Nill said. \u201cHis goal-scoring ability mixed with physicality makes him extremely tough to play against. We are looking forward to seeing him on the ice in Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bunting is in the final season of a three-year, $13.5 million contract ($4.5 million average annual value) he signed with the Carolina Hurricanes on July 1, 2023, and can become an unrestricted free agent after the season.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Arizona Coyotes in the fourth round (No. 117) of the 2014 NHL Draft, Bunting has 250 points (108 goals, 142 assists) in 405 regular-season games for the Coyotes, Toronto Maple Leafs, Hurricanes, Pittsburgh Penguins and Predators, and five points (two goals, three assists) in 13 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bunting was traded to the Dallas Stars by the Nashville Predators on Thursday for a third-round pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-517621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}