The Stars, known for running a rather tight ship with few leaks, ended up in headlines more than most teams with reports that the Stars and Robertson wouldn\u2019t budge on their respective numbers and that the team even tried to orchestrate a few trades to remedy the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Stars successfully traded Mavrik Bourque<\/a> and Ilya Lyubushkin<\/a> to Nashville because they couldn\u2019t afford to keep the young forward with the raise Robertson was expected to earn. They tried to trade Robertson to Seattle before he nixed the deal by declining to sign what was reported to be an eight-year deal worth at least $15 million annually with the Kraken. They also reportedly tried to trade Thomas Harley to Columbus for Norris Trophy winner Zach Werenski<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Stars GM Jim Nill said he doesn\u2019t anticipate it to be a problem when the players arrive for training camp in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve found, in the past, players in their moment are very invested in it, but when it\u2019s somebody else, they\u2019re supporting that player, and they understand the circumstances because they\u2019ve been through it themselves,\u201d he said. \u201cThey understand the situation. Players have been talking to Jason. It\u2019s not a situation coming into the dressing room. We don\u2019t have to worry about that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Several reports suggested that tension had grown between Robertson, the Stars and his teammates during his negotiations. The forward addressed those rumors Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cNot everything on the Internet is real. People do things to try to grab attention or whatnot. All the things that matter is the opinions of people around me \u2014 obviously, the organization, my agency, my friends and everything else is kind of just nothing really,\u201d Robertson said. \u201c[My teammates] respect [my] privacy and what [I\u2019m] going through. During the summer, it\u2019s a little easier to zone out and be private. Everyone knows it\u2019s a business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s expected the Stars and Robertson would say all is fine in the locker room, whether it\u2019s true or not. Only time \u2014 and the product on the ice starting in October \u2014 will really tell.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stars, known for running a rather tight ship with few leaks, ended up in headlines more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,88187,88534],"class_list":["post-384884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-jason-robertson","tag-tp-jim-nill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384884","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=384884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}