Dallas Signs 21-Year-Old Dylan Hryckowian to Two-Year Entry-Level Deal

The Dallas Stars added a familiar last name to their pipeline last Thursday, signing undrafted 21-year-old forward Dylan Hryckowian to a two-year, entry-level contract that begins in 2026-27. Hryckowian will join the Texas Stars on an amateur tryout agreement to finish the remainder of the 2025-26 AHL season.

The timing lines up neatly with the Texas Stars' schedule. The club opened a six-game road trip Saturday against the Henderson Silver Knights at Lee's Family Forum, with the action available on AHL TV on FloHockey.

Hryckowian comes out of Northeastern University, where he just wrapped a junior season that made the signing difficult to ignore. He posted 37 points on 15 goals and 22 assists across 30 games, an NCAA career high that led all Huskies skaters. His 1.23 points per game tied for 14th among all college players nationally, and he also paced Northeastern in shots with 110. He served as one of the team's alternate captains and was named to the Hockey East First All-Star Team at season's end.

Over his full 100-game NCAA career, the L'Île-Bizard, Quebec native produced 39 goals and 68 assists for 107 points. Before Northeastern, he put up 65 points in 61 games with the Cedar Rapids Roughriders of the USHL in 2022-23. He also earned spots on the Hockey East All-Academic Team in both 2023-24 and 2024-25.

The family dimension is impossible to overlook. Dylan is the younger brother of Stars forward Justin Hryckowian, who has 10 goals, 23 points and 43 penalty minutes in 67 games with Dallas this season. The two played together at Northeastern during the 2023-24 season, when Justin was team captain and Dylan was a freshman. They shared youth hockey teams before that, each eventually committed to Northeastern, and each signed with Dallas as undrafted free agents. Dylan finished his college career averaging 1.07 points per game; Justin averaged exactly 1.07 points per game across his 94 NCAA contests as well.

At 5-foot-10 and 185 pounds, Dylan profiles as a high-motor forward who uses his speed to pressure pucks in all three zones. If his AHL stint produces, a spot on Dallas's opening-night roster next fall is a realistic conversation, particularly given the Stars' need for cost-controlled depth as they manage their salary cap situation.