The Stars’ play tonight will center around one thing: preventing a repeat of Monday. Winnipeg at home was a tough game to lose mentally, but physically also as it resulted in the injury of multiple players.
So with Radek Faksa, Tyler Pitlick, Brett Ritchie, and Marc Methot all grounded for the time being, how do the Stars get back to that depth scoring that had th flying high just before all of this awful losing nonsense?
Hitch’s response has been to shuffle the lines in practice, and likely also in performance. With a perceived lack of effort from all lines, Hitch will likely be splitting the top line in order to spread out his most involved players for maximum impact.