Tuesday Dallas Stars Roundup: Kyle Capobianco to Play, Unfortunate Injury Updates, and More Stickless Theorizing

Oskar Bäck comes back out of the lineup tonight with an upper-body injury

Quick note: Check out today’s story by Lia Assimakopoulos and Brad Townsend about the Stars and Mavericks’ feud over American Airlines Center renovation. This is a big, big story, and this level of reporting is something a local newspaper like the Dallas Morning News is uniquely qualified to do. Give it a read.

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The Stars have been dealing with some injuries since the second game of the preseason, when Jamie Benn underwent surgery to repair a collapsed lung.

From there, it’s only gotten worse: Oskar Bäck also went down in the preseason, and then Nils Lundkvist went on injured reserve after the first few games of the season with a lower-body injury that is going to keep him out for well over a month. And with the Stars having to play without Roope Hintz and Matt Duchene in recent days after each player took a big hit, it’s only getting tougher.

Morning skate showed just how tough, as the Stars didn’t even have a full set of 18 skaters on the ice. Here are the lines we saw:

Steel-Seguin-Rantanen
Robertson-Johnston-Bourque
Erne-Hryckowian-Blackwell
Faksa-Bastian

Lindell-Heiskanen
Capobianco-Lyubushkin
Lindell-Heiskanen

Jake Oettinger was the first goalie off the ice. He will be the starter for tonight.

None of Bäck, Duchene, or Hintz were seen at morning skate. Thomas Harley was out on the ice 30 minutes before morning skate, doing some stickhandling by himself in shorts and slides, but he did not participate in the skate itself.