{"id":287451,"date":"2026-05-11T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:25:09","slug":"stars-matt-duchene-talks-team-injuries-outlook-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287451\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars&#8217; Matt Duchene talks team injuries, outlook for next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a run of three consecutive Western Conference finals appearances, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stars<\/a> finally ran into some bad luck in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt good physically in the playoffs. Was obviously hoping for a longer run, we all were,&#8221; Duchene said.\u00a0&#8220;This hockey team, from 2023 up until now, every series has been a conference-finals caliber series. That takes a toll on you [physically]. And then throw in two international tournaments for some of our guys, and I think that shoe finally dropped on us a\u00a0little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duchene mentioned that it wasn&#8217;t just Dallas dealing with injuries this year. Hockey is an unpredictable sport, and being close to full strength come playoff\u00a0time is a necessity, even for squads with a playoff pedigree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You look at some of the stuff that&#8217;s happened around the league, Florida goes to three straight [Stanley Cup Finals] and doesn&#8217;t even make the playoffs this year. It&#8217;s crazy how it can work,&#8221; Duchene said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything has to fall into place, and you need to be healthy. I can&#8217;t remember the last team that won with a bunch of injuries. In the long run, [going out early] might be a really good thing for us, given the injuries we have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stars fans certainly hope Duchene is right about that last part. After its recent run of success, the expectation for Dallas is that it contends for a Stanley Cup every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This window that we have is a big one,&#8221; Duchene said. &#8220;And we&#8217;re right in the middle of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a run of three consecutive Western Conference finals appearances, the\u00a0Stars finally ran into some bad luck in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87994,88534,90102,90779,90855],"class_list":["post-287451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-stars","tag-tp-jim-nill","tag-tp-matt-duchene","tag-tp-mikko-rantanen","tag-tp-miro-heiskanen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287451","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=287451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}