True Reverse Retro
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Oettinger, Khudobin (still 1 more year remaining on his contract), & possibly Bishop = No need for DeSmith
Lindell, Harley, Suter, Hanley, possibly Heiskanen = No need for Matheson or his contract on the left side
Two AHL caliber players (Lafferty & Gruden) aren’t enough for Dallas to take on 2 players they don’t need & add their cap hit to their roster.
Also, Dallas has enough cap space to sign their RFA’s, sign Klingberg to the $8-8.5M contract he’s looking for, fill the rest of the roster, and still have roughly $7M left in cap space. Cap space isn’t much of an issue for the Stars this offseason. Still doesn’t mean they need to take on bad players on bad contracts.