{"id":549780,"date":"2026-04-10T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:24:22","slug":"stars-heiskanen-to-have-mri-status-uncertain-for-game-1-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549780\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars&#8217; Heiskanen to have MRI, status uncertain for Game 1 of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"dallas-stars\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/dallas-stars\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Stars<\/a> defenceman will have an MRI to assess the severity of his lower-body injury, general manager Jim Nill told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lassimak\/status\/2042635475563823420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reporters<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Heiskanen was hurt in the first period of Thursday&#8217;s win over the Minnesota Wild following a check from Ryan Hartman and exited immediately. He did not return to the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has nine goals and 54 assists through 77 games this season.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"f45dad30-08be-4aab-9db7-b2033609b5d6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/radek-faksa\/f45dad30-08be-4aab-9db7-b2033609b5d6\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Radek Faksa<\/a> and <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"cc2294b3-b7ca-4c3f-93d4-2795f85b126f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/michael-bunting\/cc2294b3-b7ca-4c3f-93d4-2795f85b126f\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael Bunting<\/a> were spotted skating Friday, with Bunting &#8220;hopeful&#8221; to play Saturday against the New York Rangers, per Nill. <\/p>\n<p>Faksa has been out of the Dallas lineup since he suffered an upper-body injury while representing Czechia at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Bunting, meanwhile, was forced out of a March 29 game against the Philadelphia Flyers with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars have already clinched a playoff spot and are jostling for seeding in the competitive Central Division. They are four points ahead of the third-place Minnesota Wild with three games to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top Dallas Stars defenceman will have an MRI to assess the severity of his lower-body injury, general&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-549780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-winnipeg","12":"tag-winnipeg-jets","13":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116382286705645365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549780","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=549780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}