confirmed: DAL Acquire Negotiating Rights to G Ben Bishop; Signs 6-Year/$29.5M Contract

[Phil]

:tweet: @reporterchris: The #stars have acquired Ben Bishop's rights from #LAKings for a 2017 fourth-round pick. Bishop is a pending UFA.

[Blue Heaven]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/dallas-stars-sign-goalie-ben-bishop-six-year-deal/

 

The Dallas Stars officially have a No. 1 goaltender in Ben Bishop.

 

The team signed Bishop to six-year deal worth $29.5 million on Friday, just three days after acquiring the netminder’s rights from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for a 2017 fourth-round pick.

[Future]

deck chairs on the titanic.

[Cash or Czech]

One of Niemi and Lehtonen is out. Both will be gone by the end of next season. Too bad there isn't much of a goalie market for a trade.

 

This should help Dallas next year. Now they need blue line help badly.

 

 

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[Future]

Their forward group is awful too unless they get massive jumps from virtually all of their young guys (Faksa, Shore, Ritchie)

[Karan]

Bishop is done. Dallas is going to go from bad to worse. Thought they had turned it around last season but this organization is a mess.

[Shane Falco]

Bishop is done. Dallas is going to go from bad to worse. Thought they had turned it around last season but this organization is a mess.

 

Not crazy about the deal but I don't think he's done either. Dallas needs to unload Niemi and Lehtonen, a cheaper backup and they're okay.

 

I think having a clear cut starter will make a difference instead of playing goalie carousel.

 

Dallas definitely needs work aside from in net though.

[Phil]

A six-year deal for a 31-year old injury-prone goalie? Yeah, this won't end well.

 

And to think, all of this could have been avoided had Dallas just been willing to part with Julius Honka for Cam Talbot.