Stanley Cup playoffs have not yet started and Dallas Stars has already suffered a major loss.
Seven Best Western Conference first round series on Saturday on the eve of hosting Colorado avalanche for the game, Stars Coach Pete Deboer announced that Jason Robertson will not move from a week to the week after a lower body injury in the normal season finale.
“The next man. This is the time of the year,” Deboer said. “Starting without someone or we will not be the only team to lose someone at some point. These playoffs. You should just continue to move.”
Robertson’s injury is a difficult blow for a Dallas team that excludes the best defender Miro Heischanne (knee) on Saturday morning. He came second in the central section of the stars, four points ahead of Colorado, but fought in stretch and won in the last seven matches (0-5-2).
Somehow, they need to find a way of translating against a Colorado team that has gained momentum since mid -February.
“We have to do,” he said, “We have to do,” “We saw the teams doing this, and we will.”
Dallas defeated Colorado in six matches in the second round last season.
Adding an extra layer to the series, Mikko Rantanenen, in which Colorado made with Carolina Hurricanes in January, when the team and the team could not decide in a contract extension. Just before the trade deadline, Rantanen was translated into Dallas and signed an eight -year agreement.
Rantanen, “That team has a lot of friends from ice, but I think when the whistle goes to the ice for 1, I think we are trying to beat each other.” He said. “Work, how do I look at it. Everyone wants to win.”
The avalanche restarted its squad during the season. On top of the Rantanen agreement that brought Martin Necas and Jack Drury to the floors, the avalanche exchanged the current Mackenzie Blackwood and Scott Wedgewood tandem, and added Charlie Coele and Brock Nelson of Defending Erik Johnson and Ryan Lindgren and Veteran.
“It wasn’t with design,” said General Manager Chris Macfarland. “We weren’t sitting there in October, ‘You know, we’ll have to change Goaldending’ or something like that. I think it’s just one of the years when such things fall into such a piece.”
In addition, Captain Gabriel Landeskog will return after missing about three full seasons due to knee surgeries. When the avalanche won the Stanley Cup in 2022, Landeskog, who played at NHL, made a skating in a pair of Ahl to set it.
“Exciting for us, because it can give us another option,” Aries Jared Bednar said. He said. “It is only positive in my mind that another player is probably ready to go.”
And now, avalanche must try to earn a cup without Rantanen, one of the most scorer of Franchise, which was moved from Quebec City and is an important part of its championships three years ago.
“I really focused on this team.” He said. “I’ve played against my friends before. That’s it.”
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