FRISCO, Texas – Dallas stars winger Jason Robertson, is sidelined by one week with a lower body injury after Michael McCarron in Nashville eliminated him from the regular season final on Wednesday.
The depth of the stars has been their brand brand for years, with a multitude of talents at the front and rear. This depth can face its biggest test in a first round series against the Colorado avalanche which opens on Saturday. Dallas will be without their higher winger on the left in Robertson and their best defender in Miro Heiskanen, who always recalls the knee surgery he had at the end of January.
During the training on Friday, Mikael Granlund and Evgenii Dadonov patinated with center n ° 1 Roope Hintz. Matt Duchene centered Mason Marchment and Tyler Seguin on the second line, and Wyatt Johnston focused Jamie Benn and Mikko Rantanen on a crew which is a third line of name only.
With Seguin back from the December hip surgery and Rantanen and Granlund acquired via trade in March, the stars coach Pete Deboer thought that his team was better equipped to manage Robertson’s injury than they would have been a year ago. Robertson scored 35 goals and 45 assists in 82 games, only second in points against 82 from Duchene.
“Robo sticks the washer in the net, creates an attack for us,” said Deboer. “We have more creativity in our depth than perhaps last year. Last year, we may have more heaviness, specialty, involvement, PK – I think of (Radek) Faksa and guys like that. This year, I think we have more score depth; We have Dadonov with 20 goals on the third or the fourth line. There is no good injury that you were talking about, but if you were talking about a key reader injury, we probably can’t have better that you are talking about an injury to an injury, a key reader, we probably have a better injury to what you are talking about an injury to a injury, a key reader, we probably have a better injury, but if you were talking about others. »»
Deboer did not reject the idea that Robertson could come back in the next series, but it seems to be a long time. The stars had the fifth best record in the League, but thanks to the NHL divisional format, they attracted another candidate for the Stanley Cup in the avalanche in the first round. So there is no cake to buy Robertson’s time.
Defender Thomas Harley said it was a next height mentality in Dallas.
“We have great players in alignment,” said Harley, who has fulfilled the role of Heiskanen for almost three months. “It simply means that one of the guys can intervene and play more minutes than used, and show the world what they can do.”
Seguin, who returned to the final of the season in Nashville and took a decisive pass, echoes this idea.
“Our team has been good all year round, and in recent years with our depth,” he said. “This is what the playoffs serve. These are different guys who are in different times, and whoever is in the programming that makes a difference. You need 25 to 30 players, maybe even more, when you go deep. It takes a few months and everyone will be ready.”
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