{"id":708537,"date":"2026-11-11T01:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/708537\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T01:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:27:18","slug":"tuesday-dallas-stars-roundup-miro-heiskanen-still-a-few-steps-away-remi-poirier-talks-returning-to-dallas-david-perron-gaining-confidence-hometown-remix-gear-appears-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/708537\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Dallas Stars Roundup: Miro Heiskanen Still a Few Steps Away, R\u00e9mi Poirier Talks Returning to Dallas, David Perron Gaining Confidence, Hometown Remix Gear Appears, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There were a few different colors of gear on display at practice Tuesday morning in Frisco.<\/p>\n

The Stars practiced today, and they will practice again on Wednesday ahead of Thursday\u2019s game against Winnipeg. With four days in between last Saturday\u2019s win over San Jose and Thursday, Dallas is in their longest stretch this year of practice time uninterrupted by a game. <\/p>\n

Speaking of uninterrupted, we have a lot to get to today. So, let\u2019s hop around as many places as possible in today\u2019s Roundup. <\/p>\n

One player who didn\u2019t practice on Tuesday was Miro Heiskanen, who suffered an upper-body injury in Washington a week ago, on November 3. And while Heiskanen didn\u2019t hit the ice with the team today, Glen Gulutzan says that could change quickly. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe needs to take some steps if he\u2019s going to [play],\u201d Gulutzan said<\/a> when asked about Heiskanen\u2019s availability for Thursday\u2019s game. \u201cThe encouraging part is, every day, you feel a little bit better. He\u2019s dealt with this before over his career, and said once it starts to go, it goes quickly. So we\u2019re just hoping that happens.\u201d <\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not entirely clear what those steps entail for Heiskanen, it doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s been ruled out for Thursday\u2019s game just yet. <\/p>\n

With Trey Taylor was loaned to Texas and Kyle Capobianco still recovering from his own injury\u2014though Capobianco was watching from rinkside during practice at one point today\u2014the Stars currently have five healthy defensemen. That means that if Heiskanen isn\u2019t able to go on Thursday, the Stars would likely need to recall Taylor. <\/p>\n

The Stars are able to do that, because Taylor will have fulfilled the new CBA\u2019s criteria of playing at least one AHL game after being sent to the minors before being recalled again. Texas play tonight (Tuesday) and Wednesday, so as long as Taylor plays in at least one of those matches, he\u2019ll be eligible to be recalled to Dallas for Thursday\u2019s game against Winnipeg, should the Stars need to do so. <\/p>\n

(And yes\u2014they have both the necessary cap space and roster spot to do that, even with R\u00e9mi Poirier on the NHL roster for the moment.)<\/p>\n

In the absence of a sixth defenseman at practice, Colin Blackwell skated on a pairing with Tyler Myers, which Gulutzan said actually led to a funny moment today during a defensive coverage drill. <\/p>\n

\u201cI actually gave the guys some wrong coaching today,\u201d Gulutzan said, \u201cI had Blackie playing D for a second there, and I told Arty and Roop they were in the wrong spot. But I didn\u2019t realize they were actually on offense.\u201d <\/p>\n

Gulutzan also had some forwards practice defending a 2-on-1 rush against, just for a change of pace. <\/p>\n

\u201cI liked our practice today with that group,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cWe subbed in some forwards, which is always good. Some of those PP guys need to know how to play a 2-on-1 when they get stuck back there, so they did a little bit of that today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The forward lines were all in the same configurations as they were to start Saturday\u2019s game against San Jose, with Arttu Hyry on the right wing of Hintz, and Jamie Benn with Rantanen and Johnston. <\/p>\n

The personal reasons for Sam Steel\u2019s absence a couple games ago appear to have been made clear: the Steel family had a new addition a few days ago in the form of the birth of their son, Willem. <\/p>\n

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Congrats to the Steels on the birth of their baby boy! <\/p>\n

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Steel said everyone is doing well, including \u201cLittle Will,\u201d as they call him. Add Steel to the increasingly long list of new fathers in the Stars\u2019 dressing room, including Jake Oettinger, Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, Nils Lundkvist, among others.<\/p>\n

Gulutzan also said this stretch of practice days is especially good for someone like David Perron, who joined the team mid-year. Despite Perron having two weeks of practice time before he debuted in a game, the mixture of having a few games under his belt along with a few days to reinforce some things is a very good one. <\/p>\n

In fact, Gulutzan said he made a conscious effort in Saturday\u2019s game to get Perron some more ice time in the third period, and he did that. After Perron played sparingly through 40 minutes due to all the penalties in both directions. Perron played 3:23 in the third after playing only two minutes in the first period and a bit more than that in the second. <\/p>\n

And for Perron\u2019s part, he says he completely understands that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a few different colors of gear on display at practice Tuesday morning in Frisco. The Stars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":["post-708537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117595212762248743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708537","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=708537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}