Dallas Stars Free Agency So Far: Most Important Addition

Souray very well could be the most important if he can bring the heat from the point like he has been able to in the past. But he is a risk until he proves otherwise. We needed scoring up front really bad after Brad left…so at this point I believe Ryder was the most important.

He sounds like a player with a very, very big chip on his shoulder.

Also, Ryder seemed very surprised that Souray was called a “cancer” in the Oiler locker room. Said there were never any issues in Montreal.

With Edmonton.

at his best in terms of stats and size WAS Shea Weber. Course even if he’s totally healthy now..you do expect some skill degradation at his age. But if he’s healthy and not ‘done’ physically..dead legs or whatever..then maybe you get 10+ goals 20+ assists out of him. And he can hit. That would be huge.

when his problems in Edmonton first started why the hell the Stars didn’t take a chance on him on re-entry waivers…but I guess they felt the risk was too big for even half what he was making.

He also makes more than Benn too, but he’s on his entry-level contract. Goligoski will a heck of a lot more than $2 mil, fear not! People don’t need to stress over $2 mil for Pardy..even if it’s too much for him it’s still not much especially with being efficient with the rest of these signings as well.

then come back and tell me if you have the same opinion.

The Stars will lock up Benn and GoGo for a lot more money.

to a pointless contract to like sit in the minors or in the press box just to stay above the salary floor in case of injury seems like a awfully dumb thing to do. If it happens address the need then.

They’re 1-2 mil over the floor.

So assuming your awful scenario played out he’d have to die before December for that to be an issue. (roughly 2 mil would come off the books at that point and they’d add a 400k hit, give or take, for a replacement).

we have nothing to lose, if it works out there’s a better chance of him staying here then if we never signed him in the first place.

Then nobody will want to sign him next year.

Im sure he would have accepted the trade at the deadline, but there was no point to accept it a week before UFA. It just does not make any sense when he really wanted to see what everyone had to say, its not like he listened to the Rangers and made his decision he took a full day, overnight. He clearly took his time, and some people are bitter that A) He isn’t staying in Dallas, B) That he was lost for nothing

Anaheim’s late 3rd period antics in those games last year proved that. Our defense was our achilles heal last year. Fiddler should help with the faceoff issue and now we have better depth at defense with an improved structured system. A legit #2 center would still be nice but until ownership gets settled in, I’m not getting my hopes up.

Lombardi is hurt and still owed $7m. Franson is ok…6’5" but doesnt play like it…Nashville did this for a salary dump to sign Weber.

I really dont think it make SJ any better….Brent Burns does, but Heatly for Havlat is kinda a one for one IMO….trade market is ripe, with activity right now…Lets hope Joe can upgrade this team some more.

Morrow-Ribs-Ryder
Benn-Ott-Eriksson
Wandell-Fiddler-Burish
Peterson-Dowell-Dvorak

This keeps Benn on the wing, where the general consensus seems to be that he is more effective, and leaves the Ribs line as the only one that is relatively weak on faceoffs.

D pairings are much harder to determine, in my opinion, especially with Robi still being the only right hander. It also doesn’t help that I don’t have a real good feeling for how Souray performs in his own end, but his overall plus minus seems to say it’s not stellar. I also don’t know what the expectations are for Pardy, so I’d go:

Goose-Robi
Grossman-Souray
Fistric-Daly