Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin will undergo hip surgery and will be out for four to six months, which could affect his season. This is the second major hip injury of his career.
Seguin will have surgery to repair an impingement and the labrum in his left hip, with the procedure scheduled for Thursday, the team announced on Wednesday.
“Tyler’s been dealing with this, been managing, I guess is the best way to say it, for a while,” said general manager Jim Nill. “And it just got to a point where it’s really this time to have surgery, and it’s a wear-and-tear injury.”
This will be Seguin’s second major hip surgery. He missed most of the 2020-21 season after similar surgery on his right hip. He also had knee surgery during that time.
Seguin tried to play through pain in 2020 when the Stars reached the Stanley Cup Final but lost to Tampa Bay.
This season, Seguin played in 19 of the first 23 games and has 20 points, with nine goals and 11 assists. The Stars placed Seguin on injured reserve after a 3-1 win over Winnipeg on Sunday.
“He’s done a great job with it,” said defenseman Miro Heiskanen. “You couldn’t really tell if he’s hurt or not, he was playing so good.”
After his previous surgery, Seguin played 81 games and didn’t miss any of Dallas’ playoff games in the past two seasons.
Seguin won a Stanley Cup with Boston as a rookie in 2011, and after two seasons with the Bruins, he was traded to Dallas in 2013.
In his first six seasons with Dallas, Seguin averaged 34 goals and 43 assists. He signed an eight-year, $78.8 million extension in 2019.
Nill said it’s too early to know how the Stars might use the salary cap space created by putting Seguin on long-term injured reserve (LTIR). By moving Seguin’s $9.85 million cap hit to LTIR, the Stars could potentially add another player before the March 7 trade deadline.
“We’re in a good position cap wise, we got some cap room, and we’re good roster wise. So, we’re just going to kind of monitor that as the season goes forward,” Nill said.
