The Dallas Stars' offseason is already off to a busy start, with the franchise announcing Ken Hitchcock as the successor to Lindy Ruff as the Stars' head coach. But there are a lot of decisions for the team to make, with three unrestricted free agents and six restricted ones on last year's roster.
Here is a quick breakdown of the Stars' contract statuses heading into the 2017 offseason (all figures via spotrac.com):
| Player | Position | Contract status | 2017-18 salary |
| Jamie Benn | LW | Under contract | $9,500,000 |
| Adam Cracknell | LW | Under contract | $675,000 |
| Cody Eakin | C | Under contract | $3,850,000 |
| Radek Faksa | C | Restricted free agent | N/A |
| Dan Hamhuis | D | Under contract | $3,750,000 |
| Ales Hemsky | RW | Unrestricted free agent | N/A |
| Jiri Hudler | RW | Unrestricted free agent | N/A |
| Mattias Janmark | C | Restricted free agent | N/A |
| Stephen Johns | D | Under contract | $725,000 |
| John Klingberg | D | Under contract | $4,250,000 |
| Kari Lehtonen | G | Under contract | $5,900,000 |
| Esa Lindell | D | Restricted free agent | N/A |
| Patrik Nemeth | D | Restricted free agent | N/A |
| Antti Niemi | G | Under contract | $4,500,000 |
| Jamie Oleksiak | D | Restricted free agent | N/A |
| Greg Pateryn | D | Under contract | $800,000 |
| Brett Ritchie | RW | Restricted free agent | N/A |
| Antoine Roussel | LW | Under contract | $2,000,000 |
| Tyler Seguin | C | Under contract | $5,750,000 |
| Patrick Sharp | LW | Unrestricted free agent | N/A |
| Devin Shore | C | Under contract | $870,000 |
| Jason Spezza | C | Under contract | $7,500,000 |
| Ondrej Vala | D | Under contract | $680,000 |
