Bunting, 30, has 13 goals and 18 assists through 61 games this year with an expiring contract that'll make him an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season. This is now the third straight season that Bunting has been traded.
The Carolina Hurricanes traded him to the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2023-2024 season, then the Penguins dealt him to the Preds during the 2024-2025 season. Now, he'll join a Stars team that ranks second in the entire league with a 38-14-9 record (85 points).
Bunting is a former 2014 fourth-round draft pick who made his debut during the 2018-2019 season with the Arizona Coyotes (now Utah Mammoth). He spent the next year in the AHL before making his return to the Yotes in the 2020-2021 season for only 21 games.
The left wing found his stride in the two seasons that followed after he signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs as a free agent, scoring 23 goals in each with a combined 64 assists in 100 games.
Despite being traded twice in the next two seasons, Bunting still managed to put up 19 goals in each of them with a combined 55 assists. Now, after being dealt for the third time in three straight seasons, Bunting needs 11 more goals to set a career high and just two more to surpass last season's assists total (19).