Jim Nill is closing in on 2 blockbuster moves before week's end

The Dallas Stars are moving fast this week, with insider Jeff Marek reporting Tuesday that the organization wants the Jason Robertson contract situation resolved and is also pursuing Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin before Friday.

Two massive transactions. One deadline. That's a lot of hockey business to get done in three days.

Robertson, 26, is carrying a $7.75 million cap hit and just finished one of the better regular seasons in the league: 45 goals, 51 assists, 96 points over 82 games.

He also went 5-3-8 across six playoff games this spring.

Trying to lock up a player who just scored 96 points sounds simple. It rarely is.

The Stars finished the regular season at 50-20-12 for 112 points, third in the league, and GM Jim Nill clearly wants to build around that core rather than risk losing a piece of it.

Larkin to Dallas would reshape two franchises overnight

Larkin is a different and more complicated conversation. The Red Wings captain posted 34 goals and 67 points this season on an $8.7 million cap hit.

Detroit finished 41-31-10 and Steve Yzerman has built something real there. Shipping out Larkin, the face of that franchise, would not be a minor roster tweak.

It would feel more like ripping the engine out of a car that finally started running again.

And from the Stars' side, absorbing Larkin's $8.7 million alongside Robertson's deal would require serious cap gymnastics under coach Glen Gulutzan.

Marek didn't give a reason why Dallas wants both done by Friday specifically, but the urgency is real.

The league doesn't wait when a team is this good and this hungry.

Robertson is a core piece. Larkin would be an addition that resets the Stars' ceiling entirely, and also complicates Detroit's direction for the next two or three years.