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Dallas Stars Will Make A Deal With Washington Capitals This Offseason

By Josh Clark

Jan 21, 2017; Dallas, TX, USA; Dallas Stars center Devin Shore (17) and Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) fight for the puck during the third period at the American Airlines Center. The Capitals defeat the Stars 4-3 in overtime. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 21, 2017; Dallas, TX, USA; Dallas Stars center Devin Shore (17) and Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) fight for the puck during the third period at the American Airlines Center. The Capitals defeat the Stars 4-3 in overtime. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports /
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Mar 6, 2017; Washington, DC, USA; Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) skates with the puck as Dallas Stars center Cody Eakin (20) defends in the first period at Verizon Center. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports /

3. T.J. Oshie

What started out as a seemingly comical idea has now quite possibly turned into one of the Dallas Stars’ most logical targets this summer.

If you know NHL hockey, you know T.J Oshie. Some know him as the longtime St. Louis Blue, some know him as the hero in the U.S.-Russia Olympic exhibition match back in 2014, but most everyone knows him as a quality right winger.

He’s currently 30 years old but could still provide quality assurance for the Dallas Stars on the right wing, a position that Dallas is all of a sudden looking depleted in.

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If Dallas cuts ties with Patrick Sharp, Ales Hemsky, and Jiri Hudler this summer and moves their cap space to $17.3 million, they will be losing three valuable right wingers. That would leave just Brett Ritchie and Adam Cracknell as the only remaining options for RW (unless we want to get into the crazy talk of moving Tyler Seguin over there again).

This will probably be the player that Washington tries the hardest to keep out of the four I’m mentioning here simply because of his value to the team. He can play first line minutes, contributes on both special teams units, and can provide 50-60 points a season, with 20-30 of those being goals.

It would be another trade for the rights since Oshie is scheduled to become a UFA on July 1, but Dallas could definitely swing a deal if the Caps decide to move on and didn’t want to lose him to expansion. The question is whether they will think about it or not.

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