Honka played last season in Finland after he didn’t sign a qualifying offer and requested a trade from the Stars. Copyright © 2020 The Dallas Morning News. With the uncertainty surrounding the AHL and if it’ll hold a season, the Stars did not want to be on the hook for Bow’s contract. Matt covers the Stars for SportsDay, and previously covered the Florida Panthers for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

There are few players in the NHL whose public and private personas are as starkly different as Benn's are. It usually comes with production and points. It's the same mantra parroted by Joel Kiviranta after tallying a hat trick in that Game 7 and by goalie Anton Khudobin after the Stars eliminated the Vegas Golden Knights in the conference final. In July 2016, after a 41-goal season, he signed a massive eight-year, $76 million contract with the Stars. Interim Head Coach. Loves to crack jokes at guys' expense. Honka update: Nill said defenseman Julius Honka wants to return to Dallas, but it still doesn’t seem likely that the former first-round pick leapfrogs any current Stars defensemen on the depth chart. Similarly, buying out Blake Comeau would have saved $1.333 million on the salary cap in 2020-21, but added $666,667 to the team in 2021-22. That’s the first step and from there, we’ll see what happens.”. "He's not really long-winded or conversational with media. Exporting talent: Amid the AHL and OHL’s uncertainty, Nill said the Stars were looking for places for some of their prospects to play abroad during the pandemic.

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In that aspect, it seems like he's done fairly well. Lites, now the team's chairman, said that Benn "stirs the drink" for the Stars but that he wasn't playing to the expectations established by his past performances or his compensation. Learn how to enable cookies. Jets and Giants strategies. 2017 Vegas Expansion Draft. He's also covered college football, the Miami Marlins, the Kansas City Royals and the Los Angeles Angels for a variety of outlets.