{"id":544736,"date":"2026-04-07T02:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:25:30","slug":"stars-receive-triple-injury-update-ahead-of-tuesdays-game-against-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544736\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars receive triple injury update ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s game against Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/dallas-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> received a triple injury update Monday ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/calgary-flames\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> at 7 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Sam Nestler provided updates on winger Nathan Bastian, center Radek Faksa and defenseman Tyler Myers. Neither of the first two will be available to play against Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Bastian, 28, was limited to only 4:02 of time on ice in the last game he played more than a week ago. He is expected to be out for three to four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nathan Bastian is the outlier of injuries, closer to 3-4 weeks (2nd round) rather than sometime around the playoffs starting,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/samnestler\/status\/2041205034340298762?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nestler wrote<\/a> on his X account.<\/p>\n<p>Gulutzan &#8216;surprised&#8217; by Faksa&#8217;s rapid progress as Stars get injury news<\/p>\n<p>As for Faksa, 32, the report indicates he is close to returning, but is not an option to play against the Flames. &#8220;Radek Faksa is close, but not an option tomorrow. [Glen] Gulutzan seemed surprised by how quickly he&#8217;s progressed,&#8221; Nestler explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initially expected to be sidelined into the postseason, head coach Glen Gulutzan expressed that Faksa is remarkably ahead of schedule and could play before the end of the season,&#8221; the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/dallas-stars\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Faceoff<\/a> portal added.<\/p>\n<p>As for Myers, 36, the veteran defenseman appears set to play against Calgary, according to Nestler. On April 2, Robert Tiffin reported Myers&#8217; injury as &#8220;undisclosed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dallas sits second in the Central Division with a record of 45-20-12 through 77 games. They lost to Colorado 2-0 in their most recent game on Saturday, after defeating Winnipeg 3-0 on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars received a triple injury update Monday ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Calgary Flames at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-544736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361056991535423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}