The Dallas Stars will probably be with out No. 1 heart Roope Hintz for Sport 6 towards the Colorado Avalanche, head coach Peter DeBoer mentioned on Friday. Hintz left Sport 4 with an upper-body harm and has not performed since.
Late within the first interval of Sport 4, Hintz exited after a tough shift that noticed him take a cross-check to the appropriate arm, block a shot together with his proper foot, and get a cross-check to the again. Hintz will miss a second straight sport because of the harm.
In his Friday press convention, DeBoer instructed reporters that the Stars are optimistic that Hintz might return for a doable Sport 7 or the beginning of the Western Convention Ultimate.
“Roope Hintz is out,” DeBoer mentioned. “Nonetheless day-to-day. Longing for both subsequent sport, or hopefully, subsequent collection if we are able to make that occur.”
Even when he has been on the ice, Hintz has had a considerably quiet postseason on the scoresheet. By 11 video games, Hintz has recorded simply two objectives and 4 assists. That is a noticeable dip from his common season manufacturing, when he tallied 30 objectives and 35 assists in 80 video games.
With out Hintz on Wednesday, the Stars dropped a doable series-clinching Sport 5 by a rating of 5-3. With Hintz on the shelf, Matt Duchene took Hintz’s place between Jason Robertson and Joe Pavelski. Tyler Seguin additionally shifted over to heart between Mason Marchment and Evgenii Dadonov.
Main the collection 3-2 heading into Sport 6, the Stars can shut out the Avalanche with a win and provides Hintz the chance to return within the convention finals.
