Duchene sticks with Stars on 4-year, $18M deal

FRISCO, Texas -- The Dallas Stars person re-signed guardant Matt Duchene to a four-year declaration worthy $18 million.

General manager Jim Nill announced the woody Thursday. Duchene volition number $4.5 cardinal against the wage headdress done the 2028-29 season.

"We are thrilled to person Matt backmost with our organization," Nill said successful a statement. "As our team's starring scorer past season, helium helped to solidify our guardant radical portion besides providing invaluable enactment disconnected the crystal and successful the community. The acceptable with Matt and our squad has been seamless from the start, and we're looking guardant to continuing to prosecute our shared extremity of bringing a title to Dallas."

Duchene was a point-per-game scorer -- precisely 82 successful 82 -- successful his 2nd play with Dallas. He had conscionable 1 extremity and 5 assists successful 16 playoff games arsenic the Stars reached the Western Conference finals earlier losing to the Edmonton Oilers.

Duchene, 34, is going into his 17th play successful the NHL. He has antecedently played for Colorado, Columbus, Ottawa and Nashville since making his debut successful 2009.