When I walked up to Jason Dickinson in the Dallas Stars locker room on Black Friday to start up a conversation, the first thing I noticed were the scars on his face. But they aren’t just any old scars.
While every NHL player has his own personal “battle marks,” it’s not typical to see multiple fresh gashes on their cheeks and chin at the same time, held together by a handful of stitches. It just doesn’t happen. And on top of that, he picked up another shiner on Monday night in a 4-1 win over Edmonton that required a quick doctoring, moving his total up to 12 stitches over the past month.