{"id":260653,"date":"2026-04-22T04:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:41:26","slug":"stars-glen-gulutzan-offers-roope-hintz-injury-update-ahead-of-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260653\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars&#8217; Glen Gulutzan offers Roope Hintz injury update ahead of Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stars<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/roope-hintz\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Roope Hintz<\/a> will not travel to Minnesota with the team for Games 3 and 4 of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Stars coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/glen-gulutzan\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Glen Gulutzan<\/a> said shortly before the team boarded its flight Tuesday afternoon that Hintz is officially out for Game 3 and \u201cvery doubtful\u201d for Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, by the time we get back, we\u2019re in a good spot, and he\u2019s in a good spot,\u201d Gulutzan added.<\/p>\n<p>Hintz was injured during Dallas\u2019 March 6 game against the Colorado Avalanche after a collision with Nathan MacKinnon. It was his first game back from the Olympic break after dealing with an illness for over a week. Hintz then suffered a setback in his recovery, as the Stars initially thought he would return ahead of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Gulutzan said Sunday that he is not yet skating, either alone or with the group. Unless something drastically changes, it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if he missed the entire first round.<\/p>\n<p>Hintz had 44 points in 53 games for the Stars this season. He is Dallas&#8217; top-line center, can play on the power play and penalty kill and is one of the fastest skaters in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Gulutzan also provided an update on depth forward Nathan Bastian, who hasn\u2019t played since March 28 because of a hand injury, saying he will travel with the team to Minnesota and begin skating with the group.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars don\u2019t expect to have Bastian back until the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stars forward Roope Hintz will not travel to Minnesota with the team for Games 3 and 4 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,88561,89490,87996],"class_list":{"0":"post-260653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-tp-injury-update","13":"tag-tp-glen-gulutzan","14":"tag-tp-roope-hintz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}