Tyler Seguin will be out 4-6 months for the Dallas Stars because of a hip injury that will require surgery.
Seguin will have surgery Thursday to repair a left side femoralacetabular impingement and the hip labrum.
The 32-year-old forward was placed on injured reserve Monday, one day after he played 15:08 and was plus-2 in a 3-1 win against the Winnipeg Jets. Seguin took his last shift in the final minute of the third period. He did not play in a 2-1 win 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 on the Stars with 20 points (nine goals, 11 assists) and has a plus-14 rating in 19 games this season.
Last season, Seguin missed 11 games because of a lower-body injury. He was limited to three games in 2020-21 because of a hip arthroscopy and labral repair in November 2020 and a knee scope one 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."
Seguin has 808 points (360 goals, 448 assists) in 988 regular-season games for the Stars and Boston Bruins and 71 points (25 goals, 46 assists) in 133 Stanley Cup Playoff games.
Dallas (16-8-0), which is third in the Central Division, visits the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday (10 p.m. ET; Victory+, MAX, TNT, SN360, TVAS), and will be counting on other players to step up in Seguin's absence.
"This is a great opportunity for players internally, and we're going to monitor that, see where we go," Nill said. "You know, hopefully there's no other injuries, but if there is, we'll kind of have to manage that as we go along, but it's opportunity for other people."
NHL.com independent correspondent Dan Greenspan contributed to this report
