When the heroes are holed up in Box Canyon and surrounded by hostile forces, you can always count on reinforcements to arrive. Of course, that only happens in the movies, and that’s not the kind of drama the Dallas Stars are headlining in 2016-17.
But with Ales Hemsky “ahead of schedule” and nearly ready to start practicing again, can the team still benefit from the return of their spirit animal? Mike Heika writes about what the Stars have missed since Hemský’s injury in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey kept him out of all but one game this season to date:
Hemsky, 33, last season found a niche on the Stars, playing on a line with Radek Faksa and Antoine Roussel.