"He brings an factor of size and speed and it is a wonderful penalty killer, and has demonstrated he can score 15-20 (plans) during this League," Nieuwendyk claimed.



Pardy, 27, signed a two-year, $4 million deal. He played just thirty games very last period while using Calgary Flames due to some shoulder damage.



"Adam Pardy has become on our radar for rather a while as an up and coming (player), with an arrow pointing up in his game. He is had some accidents, but he is sensation very good and healthy," Nieuwendyk explained.



He did not know a lot about defenseman Sheldon Souray, who hasn't played inside NHL the finish from the 2009-10 season, but believes signing the 34-year-old veteran to some one-year, $1.65 million contract is well worth the gamble.



A two-time All-Star and veteran of 11 seasons, Souray has 96 ambitions (47 to the energy play), 166 helps and one,020 penalty minutes in 650 video games.



Nevertheless, he put in all of very last year with Hershey with the American Hockey League immediately after getting waived and demoted through the Edmonton Oilers. In forty game titles, he had four plans, 15 assists along with a plus-10 rating. The Oilers bought out the ultimate yr of his contract, earning him an unrestricted totally free agent.



"I feeling an unbelievable sum of enthusiasm in him," Nieuwendyk explained. "I had an excellent, lengthy talk with him (Friday) ?- and I used to be genuinely impressed. I recognize lots of people might check out this as a gamble, but I feel it's a gamble well worth taking. He's motivated; he would like to show the NHL that is he's even now a top rated defenseman during this League. As well as the factor that actually allows us too, we haven't had that level presence to the electricity play for any several years, since Sergei Zubov left, and that cannon he has are going to be a very superior complement for what we're trying to try and do to the energy play."



The Stars also signed veteran middle Vernon Fiddler to some three-year, $5.four million deal. He had 22 points in 71 video games last time using the Phoenix Coyotes. He won 53.9 percent of his faceoffs and was the leading ahead about the team's penalty-killing unit.



"He's a man that is a meat-and-potatoes man that is certainly just a player you win with," Nieuwendyk reported. "That's what we experimented with to complete here. We experimented with to add guys that we think add into the tradition and character of what we're making an attempt to carry out and Vern Fiddler exemplifies that. He is been a well-liked teammate wherever he's been. He is a versatile player in that he is an incredible faceoff man in addition to a tremendous penalty killer. He's only a warrior in that bottom grouping of gamers that you simply win with."



Nieuwendyk admitted that taking Brad Richards and his team-leading 77 factors out of the equation will make items challenging, but said he is content with all the blend of gamers he is extra as well as the holdovers from last season's staff that missed the playoffs by just two factors.



"I really are by taking Brad Richards out of your lineup you might be shedding a whole lot there," Nieuwendyk stated. "But I've gone together with the course that we're likely to be considered a hard-working team and extra to that culture inside locker room. While using the dimensions we've additional in the back again end with Pardy and Souray plus the expertise of Souray, the depth we have additional up front, we're going to be considered a more well-rounded crew."