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1 week ago | shapshotshockey.com | Sean Shapiro

The Dallas Stars made a couple corresponding moves on Thursday, signing Matt Duchene to a four-year contract extension worth $4.5 million per season. They then traded Mason Marchment and his $4.5 million salary to the Seattle Kraken for a 2026 third-round pick and a 2025 fourth-round pick. For a quick recap/breakdown, here is what I know right now and, perhaps most importantly, what it means for those pesky Jason Robertson rumors. I think we need to establish a couple key things.

1 week ago | shapshotshockey.com | Sean Shapiro

I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of NHL goalie coaches lately. The Florida Panthers have won back-to-back Stanley Cups now and been to three straight finals. The Panthers also have a “goaltending excellence department” that features both goalie coach Rob Tallas, senior advisor Roberto Luongo, and goaltending consultant François Allaire — who should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

1 week ago | shapshotshockey.com | Sean Shapiro

The Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup last night, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6, dominantly putting an exclamation point on back-to-back championships. What the Panthers have done in the past four seasons is remarkable. They won the Presidents Trophy in 2022 with an interim coach at the helm, made one of hockey’s biggest trades that summer — jettisoning away an MVP candidate for another MVP candidate — and then reached three straight Stanley Cup Finals.

2 weeks ago | shapshotshockey.com | Sean Shapiro |Robert Tiffin

Jim Nill is currently looking for the next head coach of the Dallas Stars. He’s said he’ll look at a wide variety of candidates, but that sounds more daunting than his task probably is. In reality, there’s a finite pool of people qualified to coach an NHL team, and Nill probably had an idea of his top candidates well before he called Pete DeBoer into his office last Friday morning.

2 weeks ago | shapshotshockey.com | Sean Shapiro

This is one of those stories that comes with an early disclaimer — I’m not really sure where this piece is going to end up, but I think I might have something interesting here. Either way, we’ll see. It’s been roughly 72 hours since the Dallas Stars fired head coach Pete DeBoer, a move that felt both expected and stunning at the same time.