Dallas Stars placing Valeri Nichushkin on waivers for the purpose of buying out the one year remaining on his contract. #NHL #buyout

— Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) June 29, 2019

‪Bought out the wrong player tbh. Should’ve been Comeau‬

I disagree. Comeau at least bring something to the table, by being somewhat useful during PK. Nuke played historically in with 50+ games with 0 goals. It was like he was never on the ice.

Plus the buyout cost is shorter since they had different terms left.

didn't Dallas choose not to give Hartman QO, then they probably don't want him

Stars still want to sign Hartman as Sean also says here. Just a matter of arbitration number being too high to QO the player. Still hope to sign him though. Obviously a risk of losing him now https://t.co/IIp5WwgK1o

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) June 25, 2019

Nah, there was a reason behind it. They didn't want to risk the possible arbitration, might've cost them too much.

I believe they want to sign him at an affordable price. If he wants more money he can go somewhere else. He would be a good addition. Also, they wouldn’t want arbitration to get in the way of signing a big name talent or two