-- Ales Hemsky had potentially season-ending hip surgery Monday -- just one more sign that much has changed in 12 months for the Stars.
Dallas had a relatively healthy season in 2015-16, got off to a 9-2-0 start, and sailed to its first division championship in a decade. A year later, the Stars are missing three key forwards -- Hemsky, Mattias Janmark (knee surgery) and Valeri Nichushkin (Russia) -- for ostensibly the entire season, and also are still trying to work Patrick Sharp (concussion) and Cody Eakin (knee) back into the lineup sometime in the next month.
Dallas had a relatively healthy season in 2015-16, got off to a 9-2-0 start, and sailed to its first division championship in a decade. A year later, the Stars are missing three key forwards -- Hemsky, Mattias Janmark (knee surgery) and Valeri Nichushkin (Russia) -- for ostensibly the entire season, and also are still trying to work Patrick Sharp (concussion) and Cody Eakin (knee) back into the lineup sometime in the next month.
