Dallas Bulked Up the Back

The Stars are brimming with some potential this summer, especially with some of their younger players that they have coming through the pipeline, which may make them a very attractive team to pick from in your fantasy draft this Fall. With James Neal showing off some of his skills last season, watch out for Jamie Benn, who came off a great year in Kelowna of the WHL.

As for their off-season acquisitions, they have been more on the backend, picking up Karlis Skrastins and Jeff Woywitka for the blueline and Alex Auld to back-up Marty Turco. The two defenders are not big on scoring, so fantasy values are low there, but Auld may see some good ice-time, as they may not want to push Turco too hard this year, so his points could be reasonable. Those are the only big changes to the Stars, thus far.

Forwards	Defense	Goaltenders
Mike Ribeiro	Matt Niskanen	Marty Turco
Loui Eriksson	Stephane Robidas	Alex Auld
Brad Richards	Trevor Daley
Steve Ott	Karlis Skrastins
Mike Modano	Jeff Woywitka
James Neal	Niklas Grossman
Fabian Brunnstrom	Andrew Hutchinson
Jere Lehtinen
Brian Sutherby
Brendan Morrow
Toby Petersen
Krys Barch

The Stars have been awfully good about their cap situation going into this summer, not pushing themselves too far and keeping themselves as far away from the ceiling as possible. The 21-man roster above only has a cap value of $45 million, which leaves them ample room for re-signing Sergei Zubov, if he thinks he's healthy enough to go for another year.

The Stars have Tobias Stephan left on their RFA list, but with the signing of Auld this summer, Stephan's value has dwindled and any signing will see him back in the minors for more starts. I would begin to wonder when his star will actually start to shine and if it will be with the Stars in the end.