Stars fall in OT and lose Seguin for an extended period of time

This feels like a Groundhog Day scene with injuries at this point.

The Dallas Stars lost 3-2 to the New York Rangers after extra time on Tuesday evening. What felt like a Casey DeSmith clinic quickly turned into a turn off the TV and throw your secluded kind of finish at Madison Square Garden.

DeSmith got the nod early Tuesday due to an illness from Jake Oettinger (who will start Wednesday night in New Jersey) and was rightfully angry that he didn’t get the win against the Rangers. “It was too good a game to end like that, so I’m bummed,” said DeSmith, who stopped 38 shots and held the Rangers’ power play through an 0-for-5 night. With the overtime loss on Tuesday night, DeSmith continues his solid play and is even better statistically on the road, with a 1.96 GAA and a .933 save percentage.

A much-needed depth goal from Kyle Capobianco tied the game late in the first period and an absolute masterful two-on-one match from Wyatt Johnston against Mikko Rantanen would put the Stars ahead before the Rangers would tie the game late after pulling goalie Igor Shesterkin off Will Cuylle’s stick with 1:06 left in the third period. From there, Rangers would eventually secure both points on the evening, when Vladislav Gavrikov scored just over a minute into extra time.

Now the part of the article that star fans are becoming uncomfortably familiar with.

If you’ve been paying attention, in my article that is LITERALLY LESS THAN 24 HOURS OLD from Tuesday, I had the unfortunate task of trying to find a suitable option within the current ceiling space to help reduce the load on an already shaky blueline due to injuries to Thomas Harley, Nils Lundkvist and most recently Lian Bichsel. Check it out here to see what you think. Fast forward to Tuesday night’s first period and Tyler Seguin would take an awkward fall and end up having to be helped off the ice. If you’re a stranger to Seguin’s injury history, let me tell you something quickly, it’s extensive.

As I write this, it’s likely that Tyler Seguin’s season is over, just as I just checked X and saw the news. At least the regular season. Dallas Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan shared the devastating news of Seguin’s injury to the media on Wednesday after an already tough, injury-filled career. As of now, the team is waiting for more input, but optimism is low.

I’ll delve deeper into the cap provisions and what this means for the Stars front office with the cap space that will likely come from a move to the LTIR in due course, but for now you’ll just have to sympathize with Seguin, who battled back from hip surgery only to have another hurdle thrown his way.