{"id":27544,"date":"2025-10-30T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27544\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:24:39","slug":"dallas-stars-thomas-harley-reach-eight-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27544\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars, Thomas Harley reach eight-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> and defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/thomas-harley\/8481581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/thomas-harley\/8481581\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Harley<\/a> have reached an eight-year, $84.696 million contract extension, the team announced<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal carries an average annual value of $10.587 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1983303717849124878\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1983303717849124878\">reported earlier in the evening<\/a> that Harley and the Stars were in the process of finalizing a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to lock up Thomas for the next eight years,\u201d said Stars general manager Jim Nill in a news release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis extension is well deserved. Thomas has proven to be one of the top defensemen in our league, and his ability to step up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/miro-heiskanen\/8480036\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/miro-heiskanen\/8480036\" target=\"_blank\">Miro Heiskanen<\/a>\u2019s absence was an important part of our team maintaining its pace throughout last season. We\u2019re looking forward to seeing him anchor our blueline alongside Miro for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 24-year-old Harley is in his fifth season with the Stars and has one goal and seven assists for eight points in nine games so far in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had 16 goals and 34 assists for 50 points in 78 games last season while averaging 23:23 of ice time. Harley also suited up for Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off last February, tallying one assist in two games en route to a gold medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Harley was playing out the final year of a two-year, $8 million deal that carried a $4 million cap hit. He was scheduled to be a restricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars and defenceman Thomas Harley have reached an eight-year, $84.696 million contract extension, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18991,102,104,103,18992,18993],"class_list":["post-27544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-apple-news","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-stars-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-25","tag-thomas-harley-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481581"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544","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=27544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}