Tyler Seguin will be absent for 4-6 months for the Dallas Stars due to a hip injury that will require surgery.
He will have surgery on Thursday to repair a left side femoroacetabular impingement and the hip labrum.
Seguin was put on injured reserve Monday, one day after he played 15:08 and was plus-2 in a 3-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets. He played his last shift in the final minute of the third period. Seguin did not play in a 2-1 victory against the Utah Hockey Club on Monday.
“Tyler’s been dealing with this, been managing, I guess is the best way to say it, for a while,” Stars general manager Jim Nill said Wednesday. “And it just got to a point where it’s really this time to have surgery, and it’s a wear and tear injury. You don’t really know the time frame. And he was managing as well as he could. I was talking to him the other day. He’s off to probably, he said, probably the second-best start he’s ever had in his career, so tough timing for him and for the team. But get the surgery done and he’ll be back better than ever.”
Seguin is third in Dallas with 20 points (nine goals, 11 assists) and he has a plus-14 rating in 19 matches this year.
Last campaign, Seguin was absent for 11 matches due to a lower-body injury. He was limited to three matches in 2020-2 due to a hip arthroscopy and labral repair in November 2020 and knee scope a month later.
“He’s responded well,” Nill said. “He had his other hip done and labrum done … on the other side and recovered well from that. So he’ll recover well from this and be back with us.”
