What will Jason Robertson’s contract look like?

Day 1 of the 2026 NHL free agency cycle is done and dusted – but there are still many questions to be answered.

Potentially the one on most people’s minds is the future of Jason Robertson. The Dallas Stars forward has been rumored to get BIG money this summer, but the Stars are in a tough spot to make that happen with about $12.5 million in cap space.

So there’s still work for Dallas to sign their star winger – if he’s not traded, of course. He’s one of the top RFAs on the market, and he’ll get the money to prove it, too.

Daily Faceoff’s Matt Larkin discussed what could happen to the American forward in the coming days as both sides look to get a resolution during an appearance on DFO’s free agency special:

Jeff Marek: “What do you make of the Robertson situation here?”

Matt Larkin: “Dallas is squeezed. We look at the circumstantial evidence. We use our deductive reasoning. Mavrik Bourque goes out. Ilya Lyubushkin, we knew he was going out. He was a classic cap dump. They are clearly trying to find a resolution with Jason Robertson now. I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t happen.

“But you’ve removed Bourque, who was playing on the first line for a lot of the season. You’ve depleted your roster, and you’re going to have to use pretty much all your remaining cap space to sign Jason Robertson. Because even if you factor in the no state tax in Texas, the cap’s going up. I think if Kaprizov is getting $17 million, I think he can ask for $15 million. Robertson is ninth in the league in scoring over the last five years. So it’s going to cost everything Dallas has left. And on paper, this looks like a team that maybe is going to take a step back in the loaded Central Division.”