The Dallas Stars will be down another forward for the foreseeable future.
After suffering an ACL injury in Tuesday’s overtime loss to the New York Rangers, Stars forward Tyler Seguin will miss an extensive period of time, coach Glen Gulutzan announced Wednesday.
“Unfortunately, Tyler, he’s got an ACL, and he’ll be out for months,” Gulutzan said. ”We didn’t get great news today. I haven’t spoken to Tyler yet, but probably just letting everybody know that he’s going to be out for a significant amount of time, probably the rest of the season.”
Less than two minutes into the road contest, Seguin went down awkwardly after a collision with Rangers defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov, who appeared to have fallen on Seguin’s right leg.
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Seguin needed to be helped off the ice, couldn’t put much weight on his leg and never returned.
The 33-year-old forward was off to a strong start to his 16th season in the NHL, recording seven goals and 10 assists in 27 games. He played in his 1,000th NHL game on Oct. 30 in Tampa, an impressive feat given all he’s had to overcome in his career.
Seguin only played in 20 regular-season games last season, missing the majority of the season for hip surgery he had around this time last year. Seguin returned for the last game in the regular season and the playoff run.
In 2016, he suffered a sliced Achilles tendon that sidelined him for the rest of the regular season. He missed all but three games in the 2020-21 season due to hip and knee surgeries.
The Seguin injury is just the latest toll a relentless injury bug has taken on the Stars’ roster this season. Oskar Bäck, Jamie Benn, Lian Bichsel, Matt Duchene, Adam Erne, Thomas Harley, Roope Hintz, Nils Lundkvist, Ilya Lyubushkin and now Seguin have all missed time this season due to injury.
The Stars learned ahead of Tuesday’s game that Bichsel would be out the next 6-8 weeks for surgery to repair a lower-body injury. Duchene, Erne, Harley and Lundkvist also remain out of the lineup.
As of Tuesday, the Stars have had 107 games lost this season due to injuries, which ranked eighth in the NHL.
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