The 2016-17 season was an unkind one to the Dallas Stars.
Among various glaring negative factors in their play, there was one thing that contributed significantly to dragging the team down. That was the injury bug that plagued the team in the first month of the season.
Between training camp in mid-September and the thick of the regular season in mid-November, the Stars suffered a mass of painful injuries. Tyler Seguin, Radek Faksa, Ales Hemsky, Cody Eakin, Devin Shore, and Mattias Janmark all went down before the season even began. Once the season started, Jason Spezza, Patrick Sharp, and Johnny Oduya were all struck by the injury bug as well.