{"id":472323,"date":"2025-07-10T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=472323"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:08:19","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-and-dallas-stars-make-bit-of-a-curious-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/10\/pittsburgh-penguins-and-dallas-stars-make-bit-of-a-curious-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins and Dallas Stars Make Bit of a Curious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/09\/pittsburgh-penguins-defence-2025-free-agency\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> made a seemingly small move today, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/03\/nhl-rumours-goal-scoring-winger-linked-to-the-anaheim-ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars.<\/a> The Pens have acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dumbama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathew Dumba<\/a> in a trade with the team from the state of Texas. Going the other way is one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kolyavl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladislav Kolyachonok<\/a>. Also, the Stars threw in a second round draft pick in 2028. Let&#8217;s breakdown the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 TRADE ALERT \ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>We have acquired Vladislav Kolyachonok from the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@penguins<\/a> for Matt Dumba and a 2028 second-round pick.<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shift4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@shift4<\/a> | <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TexasHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TexasHockey<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3p2bXemaMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3p2bXemaMQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DallasStars\/status\/1943399833521287367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Pens Land <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dumbama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Dumba<\/a> in Trade With Stars<\/h3>\n<p>There are some questions surrounding the Penguins potentially trying for a tank job in 2025-26. The reason? To land big name prospect Gavin McKenna of course. But bringing in a veteran competitor like Dumba seems a bit contrary to that idea. Dumba can battle and be an asset to a team in high-pressure games. Conversely, he never did lace them up in the postseason for Dallas in 2024-25. At a salary of $3.75M, that really is unacceptable he couldn&#8217;t convince the coaching staff to put him in.<\/p>\n<p>Dumba, who turns 31 in a couple weeks, is still a competitor at the NHL level. He will provide some depth for the Pens top-six defensive alignment. In 2024-25, he played 63 games scoring once and adding nine assists for ten points. His 15:18 of average ice time was the least amount of average ice time since his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it really feels like Pittsburgh is planning something different or setting something up with this move. Not to start any rumours, but perhaps this means something on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/karlser01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Karlsson<\/a> situation. It has been thought he is available, but his lofty salary could be making things difficult. In any case, it is curious move by general manager Kyle Dubas and crew.<\/p>\n<h3>The Trade from the Stars Angle<\/h3>\n<p>Moving on to the Dallas perspective, and it is a bit less curious. The Matt Dumba trade did make sense, as he didn&#8217;t get ice time in the playoffs and we already mentioned his salary. In that sense, it was a great move to help trim the loose ends in building a cup contender.<\/p>\n<p>As for their acquisition, Vladislav Kolyachonok is a 24-year-old Belarussian. He was originally a Florida Panthers draft pick, 52nd overall in 2019. In addition, he played for Minsk Dynamo as a 19-year-old after having played junior in North America. He returned to North America for the end of the 2020-21 campaign, where he&#8217;s been ever since. Moreover, he&#8217;s been up-and-down between the AHL and the NHL in that time. He&#8217;s played 74 games, recording four goals and ten assists all told in the show. He can be seen more of a depth move, but with the motivation to push those above him on the team&#8217;s depth chart. In any case, it is a savvy and underrated move by Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins made a seemingly small move today, with the Dallas Stars. The Pens have acquired Mathew Dumba in a trade with the team from the state of Texas. Going the other way is one Vladislav Kolyachonok. Also, the Stars threw in a second round draft pick in 2028. Let&#8217;s breakdown the deal. \ud83d\udea8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":472326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,4547,34,4548],"tags":[6104,2722,6022,4067],"class_list":["post-472323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-stars","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-dallas-stars-news","tag-matt-dumba","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-news","tag-vladislav-kolyachonok"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472327,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472323\/revisions\/472327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}