Antoine Roussel is a wonderful person. He worked his way up from an undrafted UFA to an integral part of multiple Stars’ playoff teams, and he was quite possibly the best Stars player last year.
I’m not exaggerating about that last part. Roussel started in the defensive zone a fair bit, and he quite often saw the puck get down the ice to the other end. Some of those times involved fun goals. Others, just shots. Nonetheless, Roussel ended up being, by an absurd margin, the Stars’ best possession player last season, per Hockey-Reference.