Dallas Stars Sign Christian Kyrou

The Dallas Stars have introduced that they’ve signed prospect defenseman Christian Kyrou to a three-year entry-level contract. Per the crew announcement, the contract will start subsequent season.

Kyrou, the brother of St. Louis Blues star Jordan Kyrou, presently performs within the OHL for the Sarnia Sting, having been traded there earlier this 12 months from the Erie Otters. Kyrou was the fiftieth general decide in final 12 months’s draft after a draft season the place he scored 60 factors in 68 video games.

This season, Kyrou has scored 67 factors in 56 video games throughout each groups. He’s the fifth-ranked prospect within the Stars’ system in response to The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler, (subscription hyperlink) and has drawn reward for his excessive ability degree and offensive capacity.

Kyrou was born September fifteenth 2003, which means he missed the cutoff for eligibility for the 2021 draft by only a day. Which will have labored fairly a bit in his favor, although, as he missed your entire 2020-21 season as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, which worn out the OHL’s season. Moreover, the NHL-CHL switch settlement stipulates that CHL prospects aged 20 or older by December thirty first are eligible for task to the American Hockey League that season.

Since Kyrou will flip 20 in the course of September subsequent season, the Stars may have the choice to ship him to their AHL affiliate, the Texas Stars, relatively than have him play one other season within the OHL.

He may additionally, in fact, make the Stars out of coaching camp, however that appears comparatively unlikely seeing because the Stars have already got 2019 first-round decide Thomas Harley keen to say a spot on the left aspect of their protection, in addition to Miro Heiskanen, Esa Lindell, and Ryan Suter already on the roster as established left-shot choices.

The Stars had a two-year window to signal Kyrou to an entry-level deal earlier than he can be eligible to re-enter the draft,  however such a risk was rapidly taken out of the image by Kyrou’s stellar efficiency within the OHL. He’s a promising younger defenseman and his official entry into the Stars group must be trigger for pleasure amongst Dallas followers.