FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Stars prime scorer Jason Robertson will miss most of coaching camp however is predicted to be prepared for the beginning of the season after surgical procedure to take away a cyst from his foot.
Basic supervisor Jim Nill mentioned Wednesday that Robertson had the cyst eliminated July 30. Robertson can be with the staff throughout camp, however simply resumed skating on his personal after six weeks of not with the ability to put weight on his foot.
“He is not going to skate with the primary staff simply due to we will limit his exercise and monitor his foot to ensure every little thing is healed correctly,” Nill mentioned. “The plan is perhaps late in camp to get just a little bit extra motion. … It is simply actually a therapeutic course of now.”
Dallas, which made it to the Western Convention finals every of the previous two seasons, opens coaching camp Thursday. The season opener is Oct. 10 at Nashville.
Robertson, 25, was the Stars’ prime scorer every of the previous two seasons whereas taking part in in all 164 regular-season video games, and was the second-leading scorer in every of their two seasons earlier than that. He had 80 factors (29 objectives, team-high 51 assists) final season.
The ahead has 314 factors (133 objectives, 181 assists) in 292 profession regular-season video games, plus 38 factors (14 objectives, 24 assists) in 45 playoff video games. The California native was picked by the Stars within the second spherical in 2017, in the identical draft they chose defenseman Miro Heiskanen and goaltender Jake Oettinger.
Robertson missed most of coaching camp two years in the past due to a contract holdout earlier than finalizing a $31 million, four-year deal. He went on to attain 109 factors (46 objectives, 63 assists) that season, together with 34 video games with a number of factors.
Nill mentioned the very first thing Robertson informed coach Pete DeBoer about lacking camp was: “It did not damage me final time.”