It’s been just under a year since the Nashville Predators made the decision to buy out Matt Duchene’s contract — a move that continues to remain hotly debated.
Matt Duchene channeled his inner 88 last night after scoring the series-clinching OT winner for Dallas
The season has come to an end for the Colorado Avalanche, and it comes at the hands of one of their former stars. Matt Duchene, who asked out back in 2017 and eventually got his wish, finished the game off in double overtime, putting a rebound past an outstretched Alexandar Georgiev and giving the Stars the 2-1 victory over Colorado.
Matt Duchene scored at 11:42 of the second overtime and the Dallas Stars wrapped up their Western Conference semifinal series with a 2-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 6 on Friday in Denver.
We folks here at Last Word provide all the latest and greatest from the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. Now is time for our preview and prediction of the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars second round series.
Finally, a home team won a game in this series. The Stars went up 3-2 on the Golden Knights in the Western Conference first-round playoff series, thanks to the Stars' 3-2 victory in Game 5 on Wednesday night.
Will the Dallas Stars finally win on home ice for the first time this postseason or lose another tight matchup?
The Dallas Stars had an outstanding regular season. Their reward is to face the defending Stanley Cup champions in the first round of the playoffs.
Dallas Stars veteran forward Matt Duchene was named the Bill Masterson trophy nominee on Friday. Duchene, 33, is a left-handed center and right wing from Haliburton, Ontario, Canada.
The buyout will carry some short-term pain, though.
The Nashville Predators shocked many people in the offseason by going in a new direction and not only trading Ryan Johansen to the Colorado Avalanche, but buying out the contract of Matt Duchene with three years remaining on the deal.
Nashville Predators general manager Barry Trotz didn’t hide the fact that he was aggressively pursuing Washington Capitals center Evgeni Kuznetsov during the offseason.
The Dallas Stars announced they would be without Matt Duchene, who is dealing with a lower-body injury, shortly before the puck dropped for Monday’s game against the Boston Bruins.
It’s been nearly eight months since general manager Barry Trotz and the Nashville Predators abruptly and unexpectedly bought out Matt Duchene’s contract.
Nashville is a place where the fun and unexpected happens. On Thursday night, a familiar face to the Music City unexpectedly had fun. The Nashville Predators welcomed the Dallas Stars to town, and the Stars slapped the home team around, winning 9-2.
Dallas Stars head coach Pete DeBoer confirmed that center Matt Duchene will miss Monday’s game against the Boston Bruins and is day-to-day with an injury.
After the Nashville Predators decided to buy out forward Matt Duchene and his seven-year, $56 million contract, the Dallas Stars signed him to a one-year, $3 million deal.
The Nashville Predators have made a massive decision, choosing to buy out forward Matt Duchene’s contract according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
As Nashville Predators forward Matt Duchene skated toward the bench after taking an errant puck off the hand in a March 26 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, he knew prognosis wasn’t good.
Duchene sustained the severe finger injury on March 26 against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the second period when teammate Dante Fabbro took a shot that hit Duchene in hand.
The Nashville Predators made several difficult roster decisions at the trade deadline that started the franchise on a new path, but recently it appears to be a host of injuries impacting the trajectory of the team.
With five more years of Duchene at $8 million per season, the Predators have to hope they can get him going in hopes of potentially convincing a team, such as the Seattle Kraken to take him.
Duchene would prefer for the league to finish an 82-game regular season and then hold a standard Stanley Cup Playoff tournament that includes best-of-seven series if possible.
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