Bishop Agrees to Play for Stars

Make it 2-for-2, in terms of goalie rights being dealt and contracts to follow right away.

The Dallas Stars agreed to terms with unrestricted free agent-to-be Ben Bishop on Friday afternoon, signing him to a 6-year, $29.5 million deal, which works out to be a touch less than $5 million per year on an annual cap hit.

Bishop was dealt from Los Angeles, earlier this week, and it was reported that the Stars were very high on his priority list, which would explain why the deal went down so quickly.

This now means that the Stars have three pool worthy goalies from the 2017 season locked in for the 2018 season, which should mean that they are far from being done in this off-season, be it at the expansion draft or through other means.

I think we can all expect to see Bishop as the number one guy, come opening night in October, which is a pretty big win for the Stars, as he should give the team a little bit more stability in net.

Forwards	Cap	Defense	Cap	Goalies	Cap
Jamie Benn	9.500	John Klingberg	4.250	Kari Lehtonen	5.900
Jason Spezza	7.500			Ben Bishop	4.917
Tyler Seguin	5.750			Antti Niemi	4.500
Devin Shore	0.870
Cody Eakin	3.850	Dan Hamhuis	3.750	Landon Bow	0.698
Antoine Roussel	2.000	Gavin Bayreuther	0.925	Philippe Desrosiers	0.662
Denis Gurianov	0.925	Julius Honka	0.863
Jason Dickinson	0.894	Greg Pateryn	0.850
Nick Caamano	0.745	Dillon Heatherington	0.771
Remi Elie	0.745	Niklas Hansson	0.746
Curtis McKenzie	0.700	Stephen Johns	0.725
MattIas Janmark	0.700	Andrew Bodnarchuk	0.725
Adam Cracknell	0.675	Chris Martenet	0.703
Cole Ully	0.647	Ondrej Vala	0.680
Roope Hintz	0.812
Justin Dowling	0.650