{"id":56789,"date":"2025-06-01T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/56789\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:24:11","slug":"stars-captain-jamie-benn-makes-intentions-clear-on-testing-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/56789\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Captain Jamie Benn Makes Intentions Clear on Testing Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars Captain Jamie Benn Makes Intentions Clear on Testing Free Agency<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jamie Benn made his offseason plans known as the Dallas Stars<\/a> cleared out their lockers following another Western Conference Final exit.<\/p>\n

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The 35-year-old captain, who can become an unrestricted free agent on July 1<\/a>, said on Saturday <\/a>that he intends to keep playing next season and wants to remain with the only NHL team he\u2019s ever known.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m going into the summer planning on playing next year,” Benn said. “Prepare like I do every summer like I\u2019m going to play.”<\/p>\n

The veteran forward added he has no interest in testing the open market, hoping to reach a deal with the Stars through June.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t see myself going anywhere else,” Benn said. “This is all I know. Hopefully we can figure something out.”<\/p>\n

Benn just completed the eight-year, $76 million contract he signed back in July 2016.<\/p>\n

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He has spent 16 seasons in Dallas since being drafted in 2007, becoming the longest-serving captain in franchise history and ranking second all-time in goals, points, and games played for the franchise.<\/p>\n

Benn had a subpar season this year, scoring 49 points in 80 regular-season games. He also had a down postseason, notching just three points in 18 playoff games after scoring 15 in 19 games last year.<\/p>\n

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Dallas Stars left wing Jamie Benn (14) skates during the warmup period against the Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome.Sergei Belski-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Stars owner Tom Gaglardi confirmed<\/a>\u00a0there’s mutual interest between the franchise and Benn’s return to Dallas in an interview with The Dallas Morning News’ Lia Assimakopoulos.<\/p>\n

“I think we want Jamie, and Jamie wants to be here, and it\u2019s pretty clear he can still play,” Gaglardi said. “With Jamie, there\u2019s just been really no talk about a future deal (as of April 21). The two parties are gonna sit down, and Jamie\u2019s going to decide if he wants to play and how much longer.<\/p>\n

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“I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be a difficult, contentious process. We love him, and he loves us, so I think if he\u2019s playing hockey, it\u2019s going to be as a Dallas Star.”<\/p>\n

The Stars are projected to enter the offseason with just under $5 million in cap space, per PuckPedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Related: Stars’ Peter DeBoer Facing Backlash After Throwing Jake Oettinger Under the Bus<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 1, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stars Captain Jamie Benn Makes Intentions Clear on Testing Free Agency originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Jamie Benn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[26,196,147,5278,5,3733,4,197,11467],"class_list":{"0":"post-56789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-calgary-flames","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-dallasstars","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jamie-benn","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-stars","16":"tag-tom-gaglardi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114608332071841865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56789","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=56789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}