With the Stars struggling to generate offense for too much of the season, and particularly on this three-game losing streak, Jim Nill has pulled the trigger on asking if the next wave of Dallas’s depth can give them more than many of their NHLers have given them so far.
Denis Gurianov has been recalled to the NHL prior to Dallas’s final game of the road trip in Colorado on Saturday. He will play.
Gurianov is on a scoring tear lately, and he’s put up 28 points in 23 games so far this season. There is precedent for forcing a call-up, as Devin Shore can attest:
Let's talk about #FreeGurianov.