As much as we can speculate on what the Dallas Stars need in order to elevate themselves into a playoff contender, there’s no clarity quite as clear as what the team actually does. That is, unless the team’s moves are so confusing that they somehow offer us even less insight than we had before.
Nill on Oleksiak trade:
"With our back end, we haven't had Methot or Johns all season, they are both big heavy weighty guys. When we started to realize that Marc was done for the year and with Stephen's unknown, we knew we had to add a weight guy that could eat up some minutes.