The Mason Marchment trade is a win for Seattle and something finally giving for Dallas

After extending Matt Duchene on Thursday, the Dallas Stars needed to make the cap space to make other moves, so they went to work immediately and found a new home for Mason Marchment with the Seattle Kraken. Marchment underperformed in the playoffs with only five points in 18 games, so he felt like an expendable option for the Stars to move, even if they didn’t want to.

Frank Seravalli and Tyler Yaremchuk talked about the winner and loser of the Marchment trade on Daily Faceoff Live.

Frank Seravalli: Seattle needs to A) be a tougher team to play against; B) wants to improve, and C) if these things don’t work out, they’ve now bought themselves, basically for free using cap space, a great trade chip for the deadline. So they could get way more back for Marchment, especially if they’re willing to retain some [salary] next March, than they gave up to get him now, and in the meantime you see if he’s a fit for your team and makes your team better.

It’s a disappointing ending for Marchment and the Stars. I think he wasn’t nearly as impactful as they wanted him to be, and he kind of made himself the odd man out. For the Stars, it’s disappointing because this is a guy built for a team that needed to be harder to play against. You’re taking out one of the guys in your lineup that actually had that capability

So honestly, it’s a win for the Kraken, it’s a lose-lose for the Stars. I think they’re in a spot where they made their bed, they made some decisions that obviously makes sense going out to get Mikko Rantanen, but now they have to deal with the aftermath.

Tyler Yaremchuk: Yeah they basically re-signed Duchene for $4.5 million, and then move out Marchment’s $4.5 million, and now they’re back to square one with $5 million roughly in cap space.

You can watch the full episode here…