Dallas General Manager Wants To Keep Jason Robertson
The Dallas Stars made a splash last 12 months on the trade deadline once they acquired Mikko Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes. Dallas General Manager Jim Nill, who won his third consecutive Jim Gregory Award as GM of the 12 months, signed Rantaen to an eight-year extension carrying a cap hit of $12 million.
Once that happened, rumours began about Jason Robertson being shipped out of town since the Stars couldn’t make the cash work under the salary cap. Nevertheless, Nill has been adamant despite talks being slow that he wants to maintain Robertson. That has been his goal.
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Nill reiterated that indisputable fact that he wanted to increase Robertson, having just signed Rantanen to that massive extension, as he told Scott Oake on Hockey Night in Canada After Hours after the Stars fell to the Calgary Flames 3-2 in a shootout.
“Yeah, that’s the plan. We’ll discover a solution to do it. We’ve all the time form of found ways. These are great players. It’s hard to seek out goal scorers, and that’s what, once I talked to Jason over the summer, I said. He had a tricky 12 months the 12 months before. He missed the entire training camp and got off to a slow start. In order that’s what we discussed this summer. Are available, I would like you to have a great 12 months. It’s an Olympic 12 months for him, too. Numerous things are happening, and he’s performing for us, and it’s great.”
Robertson is a restricted free agent this summer for the Dallas Stars. So Nill is just not apprehensive as he’s controllable. On the season, Robertson has 28 points (13 goals and 15 assists) in 22 games. Over his last seven games, Robertson has 15 points (10 goals and five assists).
So expect Jim Nill to work his magic and lock up Robertson long-term, as Dallas views him as a core piece moving forward.
No Trades Coming With The Standings So Tight
With the Eastern Conference standings so tight and no team really out of it, don’t expect much when it comes to moves coming from the Buffalo Sabres, as Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Period told Scott Laughlin and Gord Stellick on Sirius XM NHL Network on Monday morning when asked concerning the trade market and Buffalo.
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Dave Pagnotta: “As you said, I mean, it’s so tight within the East straight away. I mean, Toronto’s last they usually’re, what, 4 points out of a playoff spot? The Sabres and the (Recent York) Rangers tied as well at 22. Three points out. Like, all the pieces is so tight straight away. So there’s a level of like, no person’s out of it. No person looks like they’re out of it, although the skies could also be falling in some markets someday, they pick up a win the following day, it’s like, oh, what? Possibly this isn’t so bad.
So, nobody looks like they’re fully out of it just yet. And that’s why with Buffalo, there’s been a lot what’s happening with Alex Tuch, and are they going to sign him? Are they going to look to maneuver him, and what’s going to occur? It’s still so early for the Sabres within the season, here on the quarter mark, that they still wish to see what they’ve gotten. Can they go on a run? Can they piece things together? Can they construct off of what UPL and (Tage) Thompson are doing, and so forth?”
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