Jamie Oleksiak is no longer a Dallas Stars defenseman. For a little while there, it seemed as though those words would never hold truth. Yet now they finally do.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Stars made the announcement that they had traded Oleksiak to the Pittsburgh Penguins. In exchange, they picked up a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
Let me start by saying this: I think Jamie Oleksiak has the tools to be a good top-six defenseman in the NHL. But the Dallas Stars never got a chance to see those tools, and that came to be a problem.