The most worrying part of Tuesday night’s Dallas Stars game probably wasn’t their 3-2 loss to the Calgary Flames. It was Stephen Johns leaving the ice early and being declared “unfit to play.”
If Johns is absent from the defensive corps for any length of time, it means a shake-up on the Stars’ blueline. The Athletic’s Saad Yousuf has devoted his latest article to an examination of what that might look like, starting with veteran presence Andrej Sekera:
On Tuesday, Sekera was visibly exposed.