In a severe cap crunch following a four-year, $18 million extension for Matt Duchene, the Dallas Stars needed to shed some wage. Shifting the $4.5 million cap-hit contract of ahead Mason Marchment was a fast option to get some respiratory room. The Seattle Kraken fortunately obliged, giving up a 2025 fourth-round choose and a 2026 third-round choose to make the deal occur.
The #SeaKraken have acquired ahead Mason Marchment from the Dallas Stars in alternate
for Dallas’ 2025 4th-round choose (beforehand acquired by the Kraken) and Seattle’s 2026 Third-round choose pic.twitter.com/50WX5lmxkK— Seattle Kraken PR (@SeattleKrakenPR) June 19, 2025
Marchment is an enormous middle-six winger, averaging 51 factors per 82 video games for his NHL profession on lower than quarter-hour of common ice time. He can lay the physique, too, at 6-foot-5 and 212 kilos. The one downside right here comes along with his playoff manufacturing, which is sort of half his common scoring fee (26 factors per 82 video games).
Nonetheless, the Kraken are getting Marchment on a cut price. That is an above-average middle-of-the-lineup participant who value Seattle inconsequential draft capital. He possible doesn’t transfer the needle a ton, however he will get them nearer to returning to the postseason for the second time in franchise historical past.
As for the Stars, they’re simply content material with the spending cash. Marchment was an essential participant for them, however in an ultimatum between him and Duchene, who scored 82 factors this previous season, the latter gained. Dallas isn’t done losing talent, although. With lower than $5 million in area to deliver again Jamie Benn, Mikael Granlund, Evgenii Dadonov, Mavrik Bourque, and others, there’s plenty of work but to be accomplished. Within the meantime, getting two mid-round draft picks isn’t a horrible haul for somebody they picked up as an unrestricted free agent.
