{"id":761653,"date":"2026-06-26T03:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:48:09","slug":"jason-robertson-rejects-long-term-offer-from-kraken-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761653\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Robertson Rejects Long-Term Offer From Kraken \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kraken have been looking to make a big splash up front dating back to the trade deadline when they made a big offer to entice Artemi Panarin<\/a> to join them but that was declined.\u00a0 Now, it appears they have been rebuffed again in those efforts.<\/p>\n

Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reports<\/a> citing multiple league sources that the Stars allowed pending RFA winger Jason Robertson<\/a> to discuss a contract with Seattle.\u00a0 Had a contract been agreed upon, it\u2019s believed a trade was in place, with the seventh overall pick being part of the deal.\u00a0 However, while the Kraken made a pitch of a contract that would have seen him receive roughly $15MM per season on an eight-year deal, the offer was rejected.<\/p>\n

Robertson is one of the top pending restricted free agents this summer and is coming off another high-end performance, one that saw him record 45 goals and 51 assists in 82 games.\u00a0 It was the fourth straight campaign where he had at least 80 points and he also had a 46-goal, 109-point effort back in 2022-23.\u00a0 As far as first-line wingers go, Robertson has been one of the more consistent ones, to say the least.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a situation where the Stars don\u2019t want to keep Robertson around.\u00a0 GM Jim Nill has called extending the 26-year-old a priority but their cap situation is going to make that task difficult.\u00a0 Per PuckPedia<\/a>, Dallas has a little over $9MM in cap space available which isn\u2019t even enough to cover his $9.3MM qualifying offer.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t a lot of viable trade candidates on their roster so creating the cap space to keep him in the fold will be especially tricky, understandably leading Nill to at least consider trade offers for Robertson\u2019s services as well.<\/p>\n

Friedman adds that the Stars were hoping they\u2019d be able to get Robertson signed around what Mikko Rantanen<\/a>\u2018s currently making which is $12MM per season.\u00a0 While that still would require them trimming some salary (and likely trading Mavrik Bourque<\/a>, another pending RFA), it doesn\u2019t appear that Robertson is willing to sign for that.\u00a0 Instead, Friedman relays that they\u2019re around $2MM per season apart in discussions.\u00a0 It appears that the gap may be too much to overcome given how far these discussions with Seattle went.\u00a0 Pierre LeBrun of TSN and The Athletic adds (Twitter link<\/a>) that the Stars are now circling back to other teams that showed interest in Robertson recently which suggests that the trade route may be the likeliest outcome now.<\/p>\n

A $15MM price tag would have made Robertson the second-highest-paid player in the NHL for the upcoming season.\u00a0 Given Friedman\u2019s reported gap in negotiations between Robertson and the Stars, this might be a situation of Robertson not wanting to go to the Kraken more than the 26-year-old thinking he\u2019ll be able to land more from another team.\u00a0 Either way, Dallas is now poised to pick up trade talks elsewhere while Seattle will have to regroup once again and attempt to land another big fish to help their team for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kraken have been looking to make a big splash up front dating back to the trade deadline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[757,43,17359,44,4247,768,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-761653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dallas-stars","tag-headlines","tag-jason-robertson","tag-news","tag-newsstand","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761653","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=761653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}