{"id":194461,"date":"2026-03-07T07:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194461\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:18:20","slug":"dallas-stars-acquire-michael-bunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194461\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars Acquire Michael Bunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Stars have shored up a key position in their forward corps with a trade for Nashville Predators left wing Michael Bunting. The transaction was confirmed in a March 5 release posted to the Stars website.<\/p>\n<p>To acquire the 30-year-old veteran, GM Jim Nill traded a third-round 2026 draft pick originally acquired from the Seattle Kraken. The move allows the Stars organization to return forward Arttu Hyry to the Texas Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Bunting scored 31 points in 61 regular-season games with Nashville in 2025-26, ranking third on the team in power-play goals (5), fourth in goals (13), and sixth in both assists (18) and points (31).<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full release below and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stars\/news\/dallas-stars-acquire-forward-michael-bunting-from-nashville-predators-030526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the Dallas Stars website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FRISCO, Texas\u00a0\u2013 Dallas Stars General Manager\u00a0Jim Nill\u00a0announced today that the club has acquired\u00a0forward\u00a0Michael Bunting\u00a0from the Nashville Predators in exchange for\u00a0Seattle\u2019s third round pick in 2026, which was previously\u00a0acquired\u00a0on June 19, 2025.\u00a0In a corresponding move, the Stars have loaned forward\u00a0Arttu Hyry\u00a0to the Texas Stars, Dallas\u2019 development affiliate in the American Hockey League (AHL).<\/p>\n<p>Bunting, 30,\u00a0posted\u00a031 points (13-18\u201431) in 61 regular-season games with Nashville during the 2025-26 campaign,\u00a0ranking\u00a0third on the team in power-play goals (5),\u00a0fourth in goals (13)\u00a0and\u00a0sixth in\u00a0both\u00a0assists\u00a0(18) and\u00a0points (31).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael\u00a0is a\u00a0tremendous addition to our roster,\u201d\u00a0Nill said. \u201cHis\u00a0goal\u00a0scoring ability\u00a0mixed with\u00a0physicality\u00a0makes him extremely tough to play against. We\u00a0are looking forward to seeing him on the ice in Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across seven NHL seasons, the\u00a0native of Scarborough, Ontario\u00a0has registered\u00a0250\u00a0points (108-142\u2014250) in\u00a0405\u00a0regular-season contests with\u00a0Arizona, Toronto, Carolina,\u00a0Pittsburgh\u00a0and Nashville. He has appeared twice in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, both times with Toronto,\u00a0posting\u00a0five points (2-3\u20145) in 13 postseason contests.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a06-foot,\u00a0186-pound\u00a0forward\u00a0was originally selected by\u00a0Arizona\u00a0in the\u00a0fourth\u00a0round (117th\u00a0overall) of the 2014\u00a0NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars have shored up a key position in their forward corps with a trade for Nashville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-194461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}