The Dallas Stars have about $16 million in cap space this offseason. That amount could increase, modestly or significantly, depending on which player gets scooped up by the Seattle Kraken in the imminent expansion draft.
So what do you suppose they’ll do with that money? The Athletic’s Saad Yousuf jumps into the Armchair GM game in his latest article. Not surprisingly, he starts where many Stars fans have staked out their own fantasy territory – with the forward corps:
The Stars have a winnable top-six in place, especially if [Denis] Gurianov can live up to his 2019-2020 potential and [Jamie] Benn can be as effective as he was last season after the switch to center.