Antoine Roussel is quite a polarizing player among Dallas Stars fans (obviously fans of other teams have come to a consensus on how they feel about him). On the one hand, he plays with 100% energy at all times, can really get under the other team’s skin, and has shown flashes of offensive skill in previous seasons. On the other hand, he often takes bad penalties at even worse times (though some may be reputation-based more than actual infractions), and he occasionally does something that’s legitimately dirty rather than just pesky.
It’s been widely speculated that he’ll be playing somewhere other than Dallas next season, but Mike Heika thinks that his future in Big D depends largely on who the Stars hire to lead the team next year and what kinds of offers Roussel garners in free agency:
He led the Stars in SAT at plus-130 in 2016-17 and had four seasons of double-digit goals before this past season.