{"id":388682,"date":"2026-01-05T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:24:08","slug":"stars-captain-jamie-benn-exits-vs-canadiens-after-hitting-face-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388682\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars captain Jamie Benn exits vs. Canadiens after hitting face on ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/dallas-stars\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"dallas-stars\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Stars<\/a> may have to make do without their captain for a little bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jamie-benn\/4294cb52-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"4294cb52-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jamie Benn<\/a> left Sunday&#8217;s contest against the Montreal Canadiens after falling to the ice and hitting his face midway through the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Glen Gulutzan told the media post-game that Benn was still being evaluated, and that there will be an update on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeHeika\/status\/2007937103460512130?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">according<\/a> to NHL.com&#8217;s Mike Heika.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old appeared to lose his footing while tangled up between two Canadiens&#8217; defencemen and landed face-first onto the ice. Benn immediately grabbed his face in pain before being helped off the ice and into the locker room area.<\/p>\n<p>He left Sunday&#8217;s contest after 7:46 of ice time, finishing a minus-one in that span with no shots on net.<\/p>\n<p>Benn entered the day with seven goals and seven assists through 22 appearances for the 25-9-7 Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars may have to make do without their captain for a little bit. Jamie Benn left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-388682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}