The Dallas Stars signed Tyler Seguin to an eight-year, $78.8 million contract extension on Thursday.



The contract comes with an annual value of $9.85 million and runs through the 2026-27 season. Seguin has a no-trade clause for the life of the deal, which also covers this season, the final year of a six-year, $34.5 million contract he signed with the Boston Bruins back in 2012.



It is the richest contract in franchise history and a comes with a slightly higher cap hit than captain Jamie Benn’s $9.5 million per season.



“It was emotional,” Seguin said. “It was a process, a learning process this whole summer, learning the whole business side… but at the end of the day, I knew where I wanted to be. I knew where home was and that was here in Dallas.”



Negotiations picked up over the past few weeks after Seguin publicly aired his disappointment in not having a contract in an interview on Aug. 28 with reporters in...