Robertson\u2019s contract was important business to get done, and one that has the Stars feeling much better about their potential heading into training camp next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team’s pretty well set,\u201d Nill said. \u201cYou know, I look at our team, unfortunately, we had to lose (forward) Mavrik Bourque<\/a>\u00a0— a young guy coming up — but you guys saw what he signed for. We knew it was going to be in that range somewhere, and it just wasn’t going to be a fit. That’s part of managing the (salary) cap. It’s happened to other teams in our same situation.\u201d<\/p>\n Bourque and defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin<\/a>\u00a0were traded to the Nashville Predators<\/a> for a second-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft and a third-round selection in the 2028 NHL Draft on July 1. Bourque then signed a six-year, $33 million contract ($5.5 million average annual value) with the Predators on July 4; Lyubushkin is entering the last season of a three-year, $9.75 million contract ($3.25 million AAV) he signed with the Stars on July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n Otherwise, it\u2019s a familiar — and, more importantly, healthy — group returning to Dallas this season. The Stars had several injured players last season, including defenseman Lian Bichsel<\/a>\u00a0(out 31 games with lower-body injury) Duchene (head, out 24 games), and other key forwards in Mikko Rantanen<\/a>, Tyler Seguin<\/a> and Roope Hintz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bichsel, Duchene and Rantanen ultimately returned last season. Seguin, who tore his ACL in December and then had surgery, and Hintz, who sustained two tears in his hamstring in March, did not.<\/p>\n Seguin said he\u2019s eager for training camp to begin.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel deep down, I\u2019ll be as strong as ever,\u201d Seguin said on May 4. \u201cIt\u2019s like going into the offseason, you have one or two lower-body days, except now you\u2019re doing them four days a week.\u201d<\/p>\n The Stars are coming off an early exit from the playoffs, losing to the Minnesota Wild in six games in the Western Conference First Round, after back-to-back trips to the conference final. They\u2019ve been one of the perennial top teams in the NHL, and with Robertson still in the mix, the trend doesn\u2019t have to stop.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got a great staff, a coaching staff, a training staff, my front office staff,\u201d Nill said. \u201cWe created a good situation here, and we have great fans.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to do this. It\u2019s a great city. We\u2019ve got great fans. It’s a place that’s a destination, and that’s our job now, to keep it that way. That’s what we hope we can continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robertson\u2019s contract was important business to get done, and one that has the Stars feeling much better about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-807592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}