One year, $1 million.
That’s all Dallas Stars winger Patrick Eaves is playing on this season, a mostly dismal one for the reigning Central Division champions.
With a team-high 12 markers on the year, one in which the Stars find themselves on the cusp of a Stanley Cup Playoffs berth, Eaves is keeping a sub-.500 Dallas in contention with stellar offensive production.
A former first-round pick by the Ottawa Senators in the stacked 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Eaves presents a scoring touch that the heavily-ailed Stars are currently missing due to the injuries suffered by Patrick Sharp (concussions), Ales Hemsky (torn labrum), and Mattias Janmark (osteochondritis dissecans).