NHL free agency: a period where every hockey fan has to regularly ask themselves, “Who’s on my team again?”

Don’t fret. We’re here to help keep track of who the Dallas Stars are signing, re-signing and letting walk in free agency this offseason.

This will be updated as new information becomes available.

Who have the Stars signed?

D Matt Dumba

The 30-year-old signed a two-year deal worth $3.75 million value annually. Dumba spent last season with the Tampa Bay Lightning after being dealt by Arizona at the trade deadline.

D Ilya Lyubushkin

Lyubushkin, who played for the Maple Leafs in parts of two of the past three seasons, agreed to a three-year, $3.25 million AAV deal with Dallas.

D Brendan Smith

Smith’s one-year contract is worth $1 million. The 35-year-old most recently played for New Jersey and has played both defenseman and forward in his career.

G Casey DeSmith

DeSmith signed a three-year deal through 2026-27 worth $1 million annually, and he figures to be the new backup to Jake Oettinger.

D Kyle Capobianco

The former Manitoba Moose and the AHL’s top scoring defenseman last season was signed to a two-year deal in which the first year is a two-way contract and the second year is a one-way worth $775,000.

F Kole Lind

Lind, who was signed to a one-year, two-way contract, helped the AHL’s Coachella Valley Firebirds, the affiliate of the Seattle Kraken, to back-to-back Calder Cup finals.

F Cameron Hughes

Hughes, who also played for the Firebirds, received a one-year, two-way contract from the Stars after a 25-goal season in Coachella Valley.

Who have the Stars re-signed?

F Sam Steel

Restricted free agent forward Sam Steel did not receive a qualifying offer on Sunday, making him an unrestricted free agent Monday at 11 a.m. But just 90 minutes later, the Stars announced they re-signed the fourth-line forward to a one-year contract for the 2024-25 season. The deal is worth $1.2 million.

D Nils Lundkvist

The Stars re-signed defenseman Nils Lundkvist to a one-year, $1.25 million deal. The 23-year-old has spent the last two seasons with Dallas after a blockbuster trade ahead of the 2022-23 season, in which the Stars sacrificed a 2023 first-round draft pick to the New York Rangers. In 119 regular-season games in Dallas, Lundkvist hasn’t lived up to expectations, scoring just 35 points despite being known for his offensive ability.

F Matt Duchene

The Stars announced they re-signed Duchene to a one-year, $3 million deal, the same deal he signed to join Dallas’ roster last season. The unrestricted free agent will return to Dallas in the fall for his second year.

D Alexander Petrovic

The Stars signed defenseman Alexander Petrovic to a two-year, two-way contract last Friday. The 32-year-old appeared in one regular-season game and seven playoff games for the Stars last season. Petrovic spent most of last season with the Texas Stars, where he had 22 points in 70 games.

F Oskar Back

Drafted with Dallas’ third-round pick in 2018, Back scored 36 points, seven goals and 29 assists, in 59 regular-season games in Cedar Park, with an additional five points in seven Calder Cup games. His new two-way contract is worth $775,000, and he will be an unrestricted free agent in 2025.

F Matej Blumel

Blumel signed a two-way deal for the 2024-25 season. In his second AHL season, the 24-year-old led Texas in goals (31) and ranked second in points (62) in 72 regular-season games.

F Emilio Pettersen

Pettersen, who also signed a two-way deal for next season, split the 2023-24 AHL season between the Calgary Wranglers and the Texas Stars. The 24-year-old posted 30 points (7 goals, 23 assists) in 54 games with Calgary before he was acquired by Dallas via trade on March 7.

Who’s leaving?

D Chris Tanev

Just 124 days after the Stars traded for the 34-year-old right-handed defenseman, the Toronto Maple Leafs signed him to a six-year deal with an average annual value of $4.5 million.

The Stars traded the rights to Tanev to Toronto on Saturday during the second day of the NHL draft after it became apparent that Jim Nill and his staff would not be able to re-sign him.

F Craig Smith

The Blackhawks announced Monday afternoon they had signed the former Dallas Stars forward to a one-year, $1 million deal when free agency opened. Smith was acquired by Dallas in free agency last year after splitting the 2022-23 season between Boston and Washington. He appeared in 75 regular season games and recorded 20 points on Dallas’ fourth line.

D Jani Hakanpaa

Hakanpää reportedly signed a two-year, $3 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs, ending his three-year stint in Dallas after a difficult season.

The Finnish defenseman played the fewest games since becoming a mainstay of the Stars’ lineup in the 2021-22 season — appearing in just 64 in the regular season and none in the playoffs after dealing with injury.

G Scott Wedgewood

The 31-year-old backup goaltender agreed to a two-year, $1.5 million AAV deal with the Nashville Predators. Despite being a good fit, the Stars and Wedgewood’s team couldn’t agree to new contract ahead of his previous one expiring Monday. He sought a raise that Dallas wouldn’t deliver on.

F Ty Dellandrea

The Stars traded forward Ty Dellandrea to the Sharks in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2025 NHL draft, though Dellandrea, who was set to become a free agent, is not yet under contract for the 2024-25 season.

Who’s left to sign?

D Thomas Harley

The Stars extended a qualifying offer to restricted free agent defenseman Thomas Harley Sunday. By doing so, Dallas retains negotiating rights for the young blue-liner.

Harley was due for the biggest raise among Dallas’ RFAs and the most likely candidate for an offer sheet. The 22-year-old defenseman recorded 47 points (15 goals and 32 assists) as a top-pairing defenseman for Dallas last year despite making an average annual salary of $7.6 million less than his partner Miro Heiskanen. His negotiation could also be the most complicated.

F Max Ellis

The Stars received Ellis, who was not under contract for 2024-25 but over whom Dallas retained negotiating rights, from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Chris Tanev’s negotiating rights. The 5-foot-9, 166-pound forward did not receive a qualifying offer by Sunday, making him a free agent. The 24-year-old notched 14 points in 36 regular-season games with the AHL’s Toronto Marlies last season.

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Another Californian is packing up and leaving for Texas.

Say what you will about residential relocation motives, but in terms of sports, it’s a storied and strange pipeline that Klay Thompson will enter July 6 when he can officially sign the deal.

Thompson is certainly not the first nor will he be the last Bay Area sports legend to take his career to the Lone Star State.

After arriving as a 2011 first-round pick and helping shoot the Warriors to four NBA titles, Thompson is reportedly leaving in free agency for the Dallas Mavericks. He’s scoring a three-year, $50 million deal.

That money could go a long way almost anywhere. So, Texas? Ugh.

“Trade nothing to Dallas ever,” Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young tweeted last summer, when the 49ers shipped 2021 draft bust Trey Lance to the Cowboys.

Yes, the 49ers-Cowboys rivalry is on a more championship-laden level than the Warriors-Mavs, the Giants-Rangers, the A’s-Rangers, the Sharks-Stars and the Earthquakes-FC Dallas feuds.

Then again, the Warriors did beat the Mavericks in the 2022 Western Conference Finals — and Thompson scored 32 points while shooting 8-of-16 from 3-point range in that close-out Game 5 — en route to their fourth NBA championship with him, Steph Curry and Draymond Green as their legendary trifecta.

Any California export to Texas can merit a cringe. State taxes surely couldn’t have swayed Thompson, who made over $266 million in his Warriors career. Heading down to Dallas is easier to digest from a rivalry standpoint than heading south to the Los Angeles Lakers, for whom his father played and now calls games on radio.

Here are three notable Bay Area-to-Dallas moves over the years from each of the major men’s pro franchises, with apologies for overlooking an old-timer or two, and for excluding players whose career had a layover elsewhere before arriving in Dallas:

WARRIORS

Harrison Barnes 2012-16 Warriors, ’16-19 Mavericks

Erick Dampier 1997-2004 Warriors, ’04-10 Mavericks

Antawn Jamison 1998-03 Warriors, ’03-04 Mavericks

49ERS

Deion Sanders 1994 49ers, 1995-99

Charles Haley 1996-91 49ers, 1992-96 Cowboys, ’98-99 49ers after 1-year retirement in 1997

J.D. Smith 1956-64, Cowboys 1965-66

*Hall of Famer Terrell Owens spent 2004-05 with the Eagles between stints with the 49ers (1996-2003) and Cowboys (2006-07)

GIANTS

Will Clark 1986-93 Giants, ’94-98 Rangers

Bengie Molina 2007-10 Giants, 2010 Rangers

Hunter Pence 2012-18 Giants, 2019 Rangers, ’20 Giants

ATHLETICS

Jose Canseco 1985-92 A’s, ’92-94 Rangers

Bert Campaneris 1968-76 A’s, ’77-79 Rangers

Claudell Washington 1974-76 A’s, ’77-78 Rangers

SHARKS

Joe Pavelski 2006-19 Sharks, 2019-24 Stars

Antti Niemi 2010-15 Sharks, 2015-17 Stars

Artus Irbe 1991-96 Sharks, 1996-97 Stars

*Hall of Famer Ed Belfour had a 1996-97 stint with the Sharks before playing five seasons with the Stars, making four All-Star appearances for them and winning the 1999 Stanley Cup.

EARTHQUAKES

Arturo Alvarez 2003-04 Earthquakes, ’05-08 FC Dallas, ’08-10 Earthquakes

Richard Mulrooney 1999-2004 Earthquakes, 2005-06 FC Dallas

Atiba Harris 2014 Earthquakes, 2015-17 FC Dallas

*Assisting with this research were former FC Dallas coach Marco Ferruzzi and former pro player Josh McKay, the latter of whom runs McKay’s Beer Garden in Pleasanton.

**While they didn’t go to Dallas, the Earthquakes franchise essentially relocated in 2006 to become the Houston Dynamo, only for an expansion franchise to return in 2008 with the Quakes name. In 2009, Chris Wondolowski came back to his native Bay Area and became MLS’s all-time leading scorer before retiring in 2021. Also, the Earthquakes recently fired coach Luchi Gonzalez, who formerly was FC Dallas’ coach.

The Dallas Mavericks could be making a huge addition via free agency. They’re in a bidding war with the Los Angeles Lakers, though.

The Mavericks and Lakers are expected to be the two teams Klay Thompson is choosing between in free agency, according to Yahoo Sports’ Jake Fischer. After news he would be departing from the Golden State Warriors — where he was a key contributor and star during the team’s dynasty — the two teams were listed among those to be strong suitors for the Hall of Fame guard.

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Both the Lakers and Mavericks pose similar opportunities for Thompson. He can remain in a large market while being a third star among an incredible duo. He’d compliment Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving in Dallas, primarily spacing the floor while adding a dose of shot creation.

In Los Angeles, alongside LeBron James and Anthony Davis, Thompson would have a similar role and receive a similar payday elsewhere.

Evidently, deciding between the two teams has two different factors. Los Angeles would allow Thompson to remain on the West Coast in California, though he’d have to play a crucial role in the team taking strides towards being a contender.

The Mavericks made the NBA Finals after being one of the best teams post-All-Star break. Thompson would be a starter and key player in the lineup — and would even address shooting woes from the NBA Finals — but less would be riding on his shoulders.

This would be a splash for the Mavericks, who could add even more championship experience to the squad as the team has gotten to the NBA Finals, meaning more experience could help them hoist the Larry O’Brien next time.

Thompson has been linked to both teams early in the process, and both would be great options for him in terms of fit. He averaged 17.9 points per contest last season, shooting 39 percent from 3-point range.

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