To the joy of Dallas Stars fans everywhere, Stephen Johns is finally back in the NHL after being sidelined for more than a year due to post-traumatic headaches. He made his season debut against the Minnesota Wild before the bye week, though he’ll still need more time to get back into the swing of things:
“There’s going to be an adjustment period to getting my game back to where it was,” Johns said after playing 18:29 with two shots on goal and two hits. “Obviously, there’s a big adjustment to the speed and size of the players because I haven’t played in such a long time.