The Dallas Stars had a number of reasons tonight could have gone poorly.
“Missing a few guys, missing probably our best player in Roope [Hintz], some guys having long days, and some guys sick,” Tyler Seguin said after the game. “Just a weird day coming off a long road trip.”
Hintz didn’t dress thanks to a lower-body injury. Coach Peter DeBoer doesn’t anticipate that it will be a long-term thing and considers him day-to-day. With Denis Gurianov not quite ready to go with his upper-body injury, the team dressed 11 forwards and 7 defensemen tonight, with Joel Hanley filling in on the fourth line at forward at times.