COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two nights after a 6-5 win at Washington, the Dallas Stars allowed one goal in 65 minutes Thursday and still lost. The Columbus Blue Jackets won 2-1 in a shootout at Nationwide Arena.
With their first-round matchup against the Minnesota wild on the line, the Dallas Stars appear set to scratch defenseman Tyler Myers for Game 6 per Lia Assimakopoulos of Dallas News.
Last season at the 2025 NHL Trade Deadline, Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill made one of the biggest splashes in recent memory when he acquired star forward Mikko Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes and signed him to a multi-year extension.
The NHL Trade Deadline has come and gone, and over a week into their new homes, the traded Vancouver Canucks are beginning to acclimate. With the team transitioning toward a rebuild, veterans like Tyler Myers and Conor Garland, along with pending free agents David Kämpf and Lukas Reichel, were shipped off for what totalled to six draft picks.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
The 2026 NHL trade deadline came and went on Friday without much in the way of major blockbuster moves or unexpected moves. But there were still some deals that could have an impact on the remainder of the 2025-26 regular season and the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The decision for Tyler Myers to approve a trade to the Dallas Stars wasn’t a quick or casual one. From the outside, these deals can look simple—player moves, teams swap assets, and everyone carries on.
The ability to land a right-shot defenseman is a valuable commodity heading into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. When that defenseman’s salary with retention is under $2 million, he becomes even more of an asset.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Following a week of speculation after he was scratched against the Winnipeg Jets for trade-related reasons, veteran defenceman Tyler Myers is finally on the move.
The Tyler Myers saga is over as the Vancouver Canucks trade the defenseman to the Dallas Stars for a second-round pick in 2027 and a fourth-round pick in 2029.
A few hours after the Vancouver Canucks traded veteran defenceman Tyler Myers, General Manager Patrik Allvin addressed the media following an optional game-day skate to address the trade, as well as a few other topics.
The Vancouver Canucks host the Carolina Hurricanes tonight, and, as fans know, Vancouver sits at the bottom of the NHL standings. It isn’t getting better.
One of the big dominoes ahead of the 2026 NHL Trade Deadline has fallen, with Tyler Myers getting sent from Vancouver to Dallas on Wednesday afternoon.
As the NHL trade deadline inches closer, the situation surrounding Tyler Myers continues to draw intrigue. According to NHL insider Rick Dhaliwal, Myers remains patient about waiving his no-move clause in Vancouver.
A day after the Vancouver Canucks held Tyler Myers out of the lineup due to trade-related reasons, two teams have surfaced as potential destinations for the veteran defenceman.
With the trade deadline now just a week and a half away, we will soon be seeing an uptick in players being held out of the lineup to avoid any injury risk
Every trade season needs a player like Tyler Myers. Big, veteran, familiar, slightly underappreciated, and somehow always at the centre of conversations
Vancouver Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers is playing in his 1,000th National Hockey League (NHL) game tonight against the Philadelphia Flyers. Myers becomes the 399th player to hit the 1,000-game mark in the NHL.