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Seguin\u2019s injury hurts more than any other this season.<\/p>\n
And yet\u2026the Stars still have to go \u201cnext man up.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Seguin suffered an ACL injury on Tuesday at the New York Rangers, it was a kick to the gut in so many ways. One, the 33-year-old forward has dealt with several ailments in his career and rallied back from midseason hip surgery that kept him out for much of last year. Two, Seguin was playing fantastic hockey with 17 points (7 goals, 10 assists) and a plus-10 in 27 games. And three, Seguin is one of the most dynamic personalities on the Stars and was basically the de-facto captain while Benn missed the first 19 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only the veteran leadership, but right away you could feel the impact on the ice,\u201d Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. \u201cHe\u2019s plus-10 on the year, his faceoff percentage on the right side, now you\u2019re missing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stars captain Benn stepped into the right wing spot on a line with Hintz and Robertson and tallied two assists Wednesday in a 3-0 win over the New Jersey Devils. Benn has rarely played the right wing, but his performance was typical of this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been like that right from the first game. It\u2019s crazy how many injuries we have had. A lot of guys stepping up, especially the D core,\u201d Benn said. \u201cHopefully, things will change and we\u2019ll stay healthy when everyone gets back. It\u2019s a lot of mixing and matching with different lines and different positions, it\u2019s just about going out there and getting the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gulutzan said he will likely lean toward leaving Benn on the right side. The new head coach has been clear that he doesn\u2019t feel the need to put players in traditional positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just my experience that with big men that have great hands and hockey IQ, they can play on either side,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cThere\u2019s some benefits to playing the right and with where he is, there\u2019s almost more offense on the other side. I like him there and I have no plans to move him.\u201d<\/p>\n
While players like Sam Steel<\/a>, Mavrik Bourque<\/a> and Colin Blackwell<\/a> could get extra minutes with Seguin out, the best possible replacement could be Duchene. The veteran center has been out since Oct. 18 with an upper-body injury. He has been \u201cday to day\u201d for about a month.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say he\u2019s progressing this week, maybe better than any other week that we\u2019ve had,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cI\u2019d still say it\u2019s day-to-day for him, but if we can stack some good days upon each other, then I see it\u2019s going to be sooner than later.\u201d<\/p>\n In the meantime, Benn and his teammates will continue to press forward. When asked about getting to play with two pretty good linemates in Robertson and Hintz, Benn replied: \u201cI\u2019m pretty lucky. I get to play with 20 great players in here.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n First Shift \ud83c\udfd2 Seguin\u2019s injury hurts more than any other this season. And yet\u2026the Stars still have to go \u201cnext man up.\u201d When Seguin suffered an ACL injury on Tuesday at the New York Rangers, it was a kick to the gut in so many ways. One, the 33-year-old forward has dealt with several ailments … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Game-Day-Guide-Stars-vs-Sharks.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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