{"id":87307,"date":"2020-10-09T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87307"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:17:04","slug":"anton-khudobin-signs-with-dallas-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/09\/anton-khudobin-signs-with-dallas-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Anton Khudobin Re-Signs With Dallas Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced that free agent goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/khudoan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anton Khudobin<\/a><\/strong> has signed a new three-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> worth $10 million. His new contract carries a salary-cap hit of $3.33million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Khubodin deal is finalized with Dallas: three years and $10 M total.<br \/>\nyear 1, $2.5 M<br \/>\nyear 2, $3.75 M<br \/>\nyear 3, $3.75 M<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1314628316318576640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Anton Khudobin Re-Signs in Dallas<\/h2>\n<p>The career backup had his moment in the sun during the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. With <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bishobe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Bishop<\/a><\/strong> unfit to play, Khudobin took over the starter&#8217;s role. Nobody expected much from Khudobin, but he guided the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> to the Stanely Cup Final. While his numbers were not that impressive, he gave the Stars a chance to win night in and night out. Through 25\u00a0games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Khudobin had a 2.69\u00a0goals-against average and .917 save percentage. Those numbers were slightly above his career numbers of a 2.63\u00a0goals-against average and <strong>.<\/strong>919\u00a0save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Khudobin is coming off a two-year contract that paid him $5 million carrying an annual average value of $2.5 million. That is a solid number for a backup goaltender. However, Khudobin will be looking for a slight raise considering what he did for the Stars during the playoffs. Not to mention he has been a starter in the league before. Originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/wild\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> in the seventh round, 206th overall in the 2004 NHL Draft, Khudobin has played for five teams which include the Stars, Wild, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">Boston Bruins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_self\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. For his career, Khudobin has appeared in 218 games starting 198 games with a 2.46 goals-against average and .919 save percentage.<\/p>\n<h3>What Lies Ahead<\/h3>\n<p>This is a huge get for the Stars. Keeping a guy like Khudobin around especially with the injury history to Bishop, shows they have faith in him to carry the workload as a starter. Plus this gives Dallas one of the best one-two combinations in goal in the league. The Stars know what to expect when it comes to Khudobin. He knows his role as a backup and can start when the one goalie number needs a night off. It will be interesting to see how the team goes forward with Bishop and Khudobin on the same roster.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"BDeaIvkoTDpVa5VPDp3Gng\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1272525411\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'BDeaIvkoTDpVa5VPDp3Gng',sig:'ksxRWdu7jenNDpUU-n9gfOaNYpi0eUejm_FeafSHRZQ=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1272525411',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced that free agent goaltender Anton Khudobin has signed a new three-year contract with the Dallas Stars worth $10 million. His new contract carries a salary-cap hit of $3.33million. Khubodin deal is finalized with Dallas: three years and $10 M total. year 1, $2.5 M year 2, $3.75 M year 3, $3.75 M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":87308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[4547,29,34,4548],"tags":[801,102],"class_list":["post-87307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-stars","category-news","category-nhl","tag-anton-khudobin","tag-dallas-stars"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307","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\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}