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Time of India
3 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
Jason Robertson injury and losing streak leave Stars in crisis before Avalanche clash
Jason Robertson injury and losing streak leave Stars in crisis before Avalanche clash (Image Source: Getty Images) The Dallas Stars' regular season finish did not match their expectations. They lost to the Nashville Predators on Wednesday night. Instead, it gave them more problems. The biggest concern came when forward Jason Robertson left the game in the second period. He took a hard hit from Nashville's Michael McCarron and did not return. Reporters saw him leave the arena wearing a knee brace. The team said it was a lower-body injury. Jason Robertson's injury adds to Dallas Stars' trouble Jason Robertson was one of Dallas' best players all season. He played in all 82 games and led the team with 35 goals. But in this game, he was on the ice for just over six minutes before he got hurt. Losing him just before the playoffs is a major blow for the Stars. Head coach Pete DeBoer said after the game that resting players in the final games was supposed to help avoid injuries, not cause new ones. 'The purpose of resting people down the stretch was to hopefully avoid injury, and unfortunately, we didn't do that with the Robertson injury,' he said. 'So, tough night.' Also Read: Dallas Stars Eliminated In Game 5 Of The Stanley Cup Final Miro Heiskanen and Tyler Seguin still have question marks Jason Robertson isn't the only injury worry for the Stars. Miro Heiskanen is now recovering from knee surgery he had in January. He has started skating again but hasn't played yet. With the regular season now over, it's not clear if he'll be ready for the first round against the Colorado Avalanche. Reports say the team is hoping Heiskanen can return, but there's no guarantee. 'It's very possible Heiskanen is not available at all during the first round,' said TSN's Chris Johnston. Tyler Seguin, another key player, finally returned to the lineup on Wednesday. He had hip surgery and missed 58 games. The good news is that he played nearly 15 minutes and picked up an assist. That was one of the few bright spots in a game filled with bad news. The Dallas Stars are heading into the playoffs with a lot of concerns. They've now lost seven games in a row. Jason Robertson, their top scorer, got hurt in the last game of the regular season. Miro Heiskanen may not return in time. Tyler Seguin came back and played well, yet the team is not in a healthy state. Dallas will play Game 1 on Saturday against the Avalanche; they must rapidly locate solutions if they hope to go far in the playoffs.
Ottawa Citizen
6 days ago
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
Extent of Zach Hyman's injury looms large for Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers winger Zach Hyman, No. 1 on the playoff hit parade with his series of loud and proud wallops, left a rockin' Game 4 Tuesday after a mild-looking, but sour-note hit by Dallas Stars' forward Mason Marchment. Article content Article content Now, one win from another trip to the Stanley Cup Final, it could be bad for Hyman, who only played five shifts and 3:11 of the Oilers 4-1 win at Rogers Place. Article content Article content When Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch meets the media at 9 this morning, before the team flies to Dallas for Game 5, he may not divulge what body part Hyman damaged. It is playoff secrecy, after all, but he may say how severe the injury is. Article content Article content Day-to-day, or out indefinitely. Article content While his teammates survived without their top right-winger in Game 4 for the last 50 minutes Tuesday, it's a body-blow injury for Hyman. He had two goals in Game 3 Sunday, including a back-breaker breakaway goal on Stars' Jake Oettinger, and he has 115 hits through his 15 playoff games. The Hyman mishap follows on the heels of another to third-line right winger Connor Brown, who didn't play Game 4 and may have a concussion after he was steam-rolled by Alex Petrovic in Game 3. Article content The Oilers aren't losing games, but they are losing bodies, up 3-1 on the Stars. Article content Hyman and Marchment came together in the neutral zone halfway through the opening period. Hyman, who is 15 hits behind Blake Coleman's all-time best 126 (Tampa Bay, 2020) in a playoff season, immediately dropped his stick after the drive-by. He skated to the bench and hustled down the tunnel, under the stands. Article content Article content TV cameras seemed to show Hyman favouring his right arm. It looked like it could be a shoulder or maybe a wrist. Article content Article content Certainly Hyman not returning in game after being hurt was a red-flag for a guy who has big pain threshold. Remember he took a deflected Evan Bouchard slap shot in the face in December and came back against Florida wearing a full visor after his mangled nose was reset. So while Hyman was outside the Oilers dressing room post-game to congratulate his teammates after the nail-biter, Hyman was hiding his pain. Article content Knoblauch moved his forward chess pieces around the board expertly for the last two and a half periods, with players farther down the lineup like Kasperi Kapanen and Viktor Arvidsson, in for Brown, stepping up.
Vancouver Sun
6 days ago
- Sport
- Vancouver Sun
Extent of Zach Hyman's injury looms large for Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers winger Zach Hyman, No. 1 on the playoff hit parade with his series of loud and proud wallops, left a rockin' Game 4 Tuesday after a mild-looking, but sour-note hit by Dallas Stars' forward Mason Marchment. Now, one win from another trip to the Stanley Cup Final, it could be bad for Hyman, who only played five shifts and 3:11 of the Oilers 4-1 win at Rogers Place. When Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch meets the media at 9 this morning, before the team flies to Dallas for Game 5, he may not divulge what body part Hyman damaged. It is playoff secrecy, after all, but he may say how severe the injury is. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Day-to-day, or out indefinitely. While his teammates survived without their top right-winger in Game 4 for the last 50 minutes Tuesday, it's a body-blow injury for Hyman. He had two goals in Game 3 Sunday, including a back-breaker breakaway goal on Stars' Jake Oettinger, and he has 115 hits through his 15 playoff games. The Hyman mishap follows on the heels of another to third-line right winger Connor Brown, who didn't play Game 4 and may have a concussion after he was steam-rolled by Alex Petrovic in Game 3. The Oilers aren't losing games, but they are losing bodies, up 3-1 on the Stars. Hyman and Marchment came together in the neutral zone halfway through the opening period. Hyman, who is 15 hits behind Blake Coleman's all-time best 126 (Tampa Bay, 2020) in a playoff season, immediately dropped his stick after the drive-by. He skated to the bench and hustled down the tunnel, under the stands. TV cameras seemed to show Hyman favouring his right arm. It looked like it could be a shoulder or maybe a wrist. Certainly Hyman not returning in game after being hurt was a red-flag for a guy who has big pain threshold. Remember he took a deflected Evan Bouchard slap shot in the face in December and came back against Florida wearing a full visor after his mangled nose was reset. So while Hyman was outside the Oilers dressing room post-game to congratulate his teammates after the nail-biter, Hyman was hiding his pain. Knoblauch moved his forward chess pieces around the board expertly for the last two and a half periods, with players farther down the lineup like Kasperi Kapanen and Viktor Arvidsson, in for Brown, stepping up. But, they are now down two of their top three right-wingers. What do they do for Game 5 in Dallas? They could potentially go 11 and 7, bring defenceman Mattias Ekholm back for his first game in over six weeks — they have been winning so haven't needed him even as he's gotten healthier — and go a forward short. In Game 4, Leon Draisaitl played over eight minutes in the third as Knoblauch kept throwing him out there, up a goal in the nail-biter until the empty-netters by Kapanen and Adam Henrique. Right now, the extra healthy forwards are left-winger Jeff Skinner, who played the first game of playoffs in Los Angeles but that's all, centre Derek Ryan and winger Max Jones, who haven't dressed in post-season. So, it's an issue. The Oilers overcame the injury to Hyman in Game 4, shutting the door in the third period, holding the Stars to just four shots — the second straight playoff game they've done that. They got the win in the highly-entertaining game because goalie Stu Skinner saved them in the first 20 minutes with his 16 stops but the Hyman loss looms large. 'Not having him? It's massive… he's a huge piece, a key piece. After every period, he's never too high, never too low. He is a cliché. He grinds, he does the little things right. He's a leader in our room,' said Skinner. Nugent-Hopkins, who the first NHL player in 35 years to record multiple points in the first four games of a Conference Final, is a leader, too. But, Hyman has brought something black and blue to the playoff stage with all those hits. 'You've seen his physicality, it's important to our game,' said Nugent-Hopkins 'We're going to need it from other people filling the gap, obviously, in however many games we have left and we'll wait to see about Zach. Everybody wants to step up, everybody's chomping at the bit to get out there. Tonight, it felt like we were doing this for Zach, getting the job done for him.' Hyman is on the first line with Connor McDavid and Nugent-Hopkins, their best player in this series (nine points in four games). He also alternates net-front on the power play with Corey Perry, who scored there in Game 4 and also is on the third forward pair on the penalty kill with McDavid. 'He means everything to us, he's a workhorse, a dog on a bone on the puck. The way he was forechecking and hitting and finishing like he was in Game 3, that's Zach Hyman,' said Perry. So we'll see what Knoblauch's plan is for Game 5 Thursday. The Oilers defence corps have been terrific, but maybe they finally give Ekholm a seat at the table after not playing since April 11 and go with seven D and 11 forwards. Or maybe they bring Jeff Skinner into the picture? He would seem to have a leg up on Ryan or Jones. 'Going into the third period I had the luxury of double-shifting Leon. The conversation with him was 'get prepared to play a lot of minutes,'' said Knoblauch. 'Podkolzin, Kapanen, (Mattias) Janmark picked up where they left off earlier in the playoff run. (Trent) Frederic is new to us and starting to contribute. Everybody stepped up and the defence also did a very good job moving the pucks out so we didn't have to be in the defensive zone, as much.' Draisaitl came away very impressed. 'I thought we dealt with it well (no Hyman). Guys farther down the lineup had elevated minutes. Arvy, Kappy they stuck out. They were really good,' he said. The Oilers were badly beaten in the face-off circle (Oilers won just 39 per cent) in the game but Draisaitl won a pivotal draw in the Oilers end to help set up the Kapanen goal with two and a half minutes left. 'I certainly felt I was struggling a bit on the face-off dot (9-9). They're a good face-off team, they have righty-lefty everywhere and that helps a lot, but there were numerous little plays on that (empty-net) goal. It's like a domino effect,' said Draisaitl. 'Nurse with a really good pick, Kulak with good patience and a high flip, a great read by Kapanen. Just a lot of smart hockey plays and a big goal for us.' Oilers forward Evander Kane also missed the last five or six minutes of the second period, leaving the bench for an undisclosed reason, but the winer was back for the third, and played four minutes. Bouchard gave a cheeky slash to the same left foot of Roope Hintz, the same foot that Nurse whacked in Game 2 which had Hintz in a foul verbal mood. Hintz missed Game 3 but played 17 minutes and was 10-5 on face-offs Tuesday. The Stars have never come back from a 3-1 playoff series deficit. Perry now has 60 playoff goals. He's tied for fourth (Brad Marchand) among active players with Alex Ovechkin (77), Sidney Crosby (71) and Evgeni Malkin (67), top three. Bookmark our website and support our journalism: Don't miss the news you need to know — add and to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters . You can also support our journalism by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribers gain unlimited access to The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, National Post, and 13 other Canadian news sites. The Edmonton Journal | The Edmonton Sun
Calgary Herald
6 days ago
- Sport
- Calgary Herald
Extent of Zach Hyman's injury looms large for Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers winger Zach Hyman, No. 1 on the playoff hit parade with his series of loud and proud wallops, left a rockin' Game 4 Tuesday after a mild-looking, but sour-note hit by Dallas Stars' forward Mason Marchment. Article content Article content Now, one win from another trip to the Stanley Cup Final, it could be bad for Hyman, who only played five shifts and 3:11 of the Oilers 4-1 win at Rogers Place. Article content Article content When Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch meets the media at 9 this morning, before the team flies to Dallas for Game 5, he may not divulge what body part Hyman damaged. It is playoff secrecy, after all, but he may say how severe the injury is. Article content Article content Day-to-day, or out indefinitely. Article content While his teammates survived without their top right-winger in Game 4 for the last 50 minutes Tuesday, it's a body-blow injury for Hyman. He had two goals in Game 3 Sunday, including a back-breaker breakaway goal on Stars' Jake Oettinger, and he has 115 hits through his 15 playoff games. The Hyman mishap follows on the heels of another to third-line right winger Connor Brown, who didn't play Game 4 and may have a concussion after he was steam-rolled by Alex Petrovic in Game 3. Article content The Oilers aren't losing games, but they are losing bodies, up 3-1 on the Stars. Article content Hyman and Marchment came together in the neutral zone halfway through the opening period. Hyman, who is 15 hits behind Blake Coleman's all-time best 126 (Tampa Bay, 2020) in a playoff season, immediately dropped his stick after the drive-by. He skated to the bench and hustled down the tunnel, under the stands. Article content Article content TV cameras seemed to show Hyman favouring his right arm. It looked like it could be a shoulder or maybe a wrist. Article content Article content Certainly Hyman not returning in game after being hurt was a red-flag for a guy who has big pain threshold. Remember he took a deflected Evan Bouchard slap shot in the face in December and came back against Florida wearing a full visor after his mangled nose was reset. So while Hyman was outside the Oilers dressing room post-game to congratulate his teammates after the nail-biter, Hyman was hiding his pain.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Stars need more production from their stars to avoid elimination against the Oilers
Dallas Stars' Mason Marchment (27) and Edmonton Oilers' Jake Walman (96) battle as Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner, left, makes a save during the third period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Sam Steel (18) is chased by Edmonton Oilers' Evander Kane (91) during the second period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Lian Bichsel (6) and Edmonton Oilers' John Klingberg, center left, battle for the puck during the third period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Wyatt Johnston (53) is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner (74) the first period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Wyatt Johnston (53) is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner (74) the first period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Mason Marchment (27) and Edmonton Oilers' Jake Walman (96) battle as Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner, left, makes a save during the third period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Sam Steel (18) is chased by Edmonton Oilers' Evander Kane (91) during the second period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Lian Bichsel (6) and Edmonton Oilers' John Klingberg, center left, battle for the puck during the third period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Dallas Stars' Wyatt Johnston (53) is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner (74) the first period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Mikko Rantanen and Mikael Granlund scored seven of the Dallas Stars' 13 goals in the second round to move on to the Western Conference final against the Edmonton Oilers, yet that lopsided production was also a red flag. Three-time Stanley Cup champion Ken Daneyko before the series started figured that needed to change. Advertisement "They do have more of a game-breaker with Mikko Rantanen," Daneyko said. 'But the Johnstons and Dadonovs and the Duchenes and Seguin and Benn — whoever — these guys are going to have score some big goals or make a few big plays to beat the Oilers and the depth they have.' While Tyler Seguin has scored twice, Wyatt Johnston, Evgenii Dadonov, Matt Duchene and Jamie Benn have one goal between them, and now the Stars find themselves down two games to one in the best-of-seven series. They went nearly 100 minutes without scoring on Edmonton's Stuart Skinner from Games 1 through 3 and went another 24 minutes without a goal on the way to a 6-1 loss Sunday. With the status of injured center Roope Hintz uncertain after getting slashed in the left foot/ankle by Darnell Nurse in Game 2 badly enough that he was out Sunday and with Rantanen's playoff-opening magic seemingly wearing off, Dallas needs more offense from its top players to avoid getting pushed to the brink of elimination. 'Five on five we've got to find a way to finish our chances a little bit more,' Rantanen told reporters in Edmonton. 'Obviously Skinner is making good saves, but we've got to make life harder for him.' Advertisement Skinner has stopped 80 of the 86 shots he has faced, but he's not the only netminder to stymie the Stars away from home this postseason. Connor Hellebuyck blanked them in Game 5 last round in Winnipeg, and their scoreless streak on the road lasted a franchise-worst 178:57 before Jason Robertson scored their lone goal Sunday. The impatience is building. 'It's something that's tough when you get so many chances,' said Rantanen, who's tied for the playoff lead in goals with nine but none so far against the Oilers. 'It's frustrating, and it's something that it's hard to not let the frustration come, but we've got to do our best to not let it come to our minds.' Coach Peter DeBoer, in the West final for a sixth time in seven years and aiming to reach the Cup final with a third different NHL team, does not sound frustrated. Advertisement "There's good signs in our game," DeBoer said in his post-Game 5 news conference. 'If we can keep bringing that game to the rink, I like our chances of coming back in this series.' Robertson scoring his first goal of the playoffs is one of the reasons for optimism. He missed the entire first round against Colorado with injury and is only now starting to look like his regular-season point-a-game self. DeBoer called Game 5 Robertson's best since returning. "There's no doubt he's been a step behind since he came back in," DeBoer said. 'We need him. We need that scoring out of him. We haven't had it.' Advertisement Even without depth scoring, Dallas is right there in the series thanks to a barrage of three power-play goals in 5 1/2 minutes in the third period of Game 1. The Oilers have been the better team at 5 on 5 for long stretches, but the Stars have not wilted under pressure. 'A great trait to have: they can be outplayed, but they're opportunistic,' said Daneyko, now an NHL Network analyst. 'They win games when they're outplayed. You have to be able to do that in the playoffs.' And sometimes win away from home, too, which is easier said than done given the crazed crowd in Edmonton. 'We still have an opportunity to try to at least get one on the road,' Robertson said. 'We know what we have to do. A lot of veterans in this locker room, and they're going to be up to the challenge on Tuesday.' Advertisement Hintz could return after taking part in an optional practice Monday, with DeBoer saying the 28-year-old Finn will take warmups to determine if he can play. ___ AP NHL playoffs: and
