DALLAS -- The Stars traded forward Fabian Brunnstrom to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday for right wing Mikhail Stefanovich in an exchange of minor league players that is a money-saving move for Dallas.
Brunnstrom, 25, played in 37 games and posted 21 points (11 goals, 10 assits) this season for the Texas Stars, Dallas' primary AHL affiliate. He has played all 99 of his career NHL games with Dallas, for whom he scored 40 points.
The native of Jonstrop, Sweden, agreed to a one-year contract extension worth $675,000 last July.
The 21-year-old Stefanovich, who is from Belarus, has played 15 games with Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League, where he has a goal. He dressed in two games for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, going scoreless, and appeared in four games for Reading in the ECHL.
Stefanovich was drafted by the Leafs in the fourth round of the 2008 NHL draft.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.