{"id":488053,"date":"2026-03-06T01:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/488053\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:26:15","slug":"stars-receive-f-bunting-from-predators-tsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/488053\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars receive F Bunting from Predators \u2013 TSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> have traded forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-bunting\/8478047\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-bunting\/8478047\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bunting<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> in exchange for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken<\/a>\u2019s third-round draft pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, according to TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bunting, 30, has 13 goals and 31 points in 61 games with the Predators this season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nashville trades Bunting to Dallas in exchange for a 3rd round pick (Seattle\u2019s pick from Marchment trade ) in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2029689982105821428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot winger is in the final season of a three-year, $13.5 million contract that carries a cap hit of $4.5 million. He is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 117th overall by the Arizona Coyotes in 2014, Bunting has 108 goals and 250 points in 405 career games split between the Coyotes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>, and Predators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Scarborough, Ont., native represented Canada twice at the World Hockey Championship, taking home a gold medal in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators have traded forward Michael Bunting to the Dallas Stars in exchange for the Seattle Kraken\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,33166,5,58172,33451,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-488053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-dallas-stars-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-25","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-michael-bunting-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478047","12":"tag-nashville-predators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-18","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116179631077085605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}