Saad Yousef of The Athletic: The Dallas Stars saved about a $1 million in salary cap room when deciding not to protect/extend defenseman Jamie Oleksiak and signing Ryan Suter.
Signing goaltender Braden Holtby was a little surprising given they already have three goaltenders. Each have their issues though – Ben Bishop (health), Anton Khudobin (performance) and Jake Oettinger (development). Bishop seems ticketed for the LTIR.
The Stars didn’t get much consistency from scoring and ranked 24th in the league.
They are around $2 million over the salary cap but if Bishop’s $4.