When Miro Heiskanen went down with a lower body injury in early January, there were justifiable concerns about how the Dallas Stars – and in particular the blue line – would survive the loss of the teams best player.
10 games in, things aren’t so bad.
With Heiskanen on the verge of coming back, the Stars seem to have weathered the storm. Since the overtime loss to the Colorado Avalanche that saw the defender go down hard into his own net, the team has gone on to a 6-3-1 record, a .650 points percentage. To add context, prior to that Colorado loss, the team was 22-10-4, a .