The Stars announced Friday they’ve fired head coach Pete DeBoer. He had one year left on his contract worth roughly $4MM, Tim Cowlishaw of the Dallas Morning News relayed yesterday. With no other head coaching vacancies after the Bruins filled theirs yesterday, they’ll be paying him to sit unless he lands a job with another club thanks to an in-season coaching change in 2025-26.

“ After careful consideration, we believe that a new voice is needed in our locker room to push us closer to our goal of winning the Stanley Cup ,” general manager Jim Nill said in a team release. “ We’d like to thank Pete for everything that he has helped our organization achieve over the past three seasons and wish him nothing but the best moving forward. ”

If DeBoer sits at home for the entirety of

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