Stars’ Roope Hintz out for remainder of regular season
The Dallas Stars will continue to be without their first-line center for the rest of the regular season.
Stars general manager Jim Nill addressed the reporters, including Lia Assimakopoulos of The Dallas Morning News, on Friday and shared several injury updates, including that Roope Hintz will not return before the end of the regular season and that his status remains up in the air for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Stars GM Jim Nill says Miro Heiskanen is having an MRI today, and they’ll know more this afternoon. He says they don’t expect Roope Hintz to be back in the regular season and aren’t sure if he will be available for Game 1. Still week-to-week.
Hintz continues to be sidelined on a week-to-week basis since suffering a lower-body injury during his team’s Mar. 6 game against the Colorado Avalanche during a battle along the boards with Nathan MacKinnon. The team was previously optimistic that Hintz would be able to rejoin the lineup before the end of the regular season.
Hintz has appeared in 53 games this season, putting up 15 goals and 29 assists for 44 points while skating to a plus-16 rating on an average of 17:20 of time on ice per game.
The second round pick from the 2015 NHL Draft was also a key piece for Team Finland at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Games, where helped his country claim the bronze medal with four points in six games played.
In Hintz’s absence, Wyatt Johnston is centering Mikko Rantanen and Justin Hryckowian on Dallas’ first line. The Stars have put together a 4-5-1 record in their past 10 games without Hintz, but they’ve rattled off two straight wins, including a major statement victory with a come-from-behind 5-4 win over their first-round opponent Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.
Dallas has three games remaining on the schedule before the Stanley Cup Playoffs start. They’ll host the New York Rangers on Saturday before visiting the Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres next Monday and Wednesday.
The Stars will look to get over the hump in the playoffs this season. In each of the past three years, they’ve fallen short in the Western Conference Final.