{"id":416243,"date":"2025-12-01T01:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416243\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:43:15","slug":"dallas-stars-lian-bichsel-exits-game-vs-senators-with-apparent-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416243\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars\u2019 Lian Bichsel exits game vs. Senators with apparent lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Just when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\">Dallas Stars<\/a> got some much-needed reinforcements along the blue line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/11\/30\/dallas-stars-ilya-lyubushkin-injury-return-ottawa-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/11\/30\/dallas-stars-ilya-lyubushkin-injury-return-ottawa-senators\/\">the return of Ilya Lyubushkin<\/a>, defenseman Lian Bichsel went down Sunday night against the Senators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Off the faceoff at center-ice following Wyatt Johnston\u2019s goal that gave the Stars a 3-1 lead, Bichsel was skating toward the boards in front of the benches to get the puck. As he made the play on the puck, he absorbed a check from Ottawa\u2019s Fabian Zetterlund and went feet-first into what was an awkward collision along the boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Bichsel immediately went down and appeared to be in a significant amount of pain as team doctors tended to him. The young defenseman wasn\u2019t putting any weight on his left leg as he was helped off the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The team announced Bichsel is questionable to return to the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">While the severity of the injury to his left leg is not yet known, the 6-foot-7 defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2023\/05\/06\/dallas-stars-sign-2022-first-round-draft-pick-lian-bichsel-to-entry-level-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2023\/05\/06\/dallas-stars-sign-2022-first-round-draft-pick-lian-bichsel-to-entry-level-contract\/\">broke his left ankle in May 2023<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/06\/stars-jim-nill-reveals-tyler-seguin-and-lian-bichsel-played-through-injuries-in-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/06\/06\/stars-jim-nill-reveals-tyler-seguin-and-lian-bichsel-played-through-injuries-in-playoffs\/\">had a procedure done over the summer to remove the plate<\/a> that was placed in his ankle this past summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Even with Lyubushkin\u2019s return, Dallas was still without defensemen Thomas Harley and Nils Lundkvist. Now, it appears that the Stars might have to add Bichsel to their lengthy list of injured defensemen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/11\/30\/dallas-stars-ilya-lyubushkin-injury-return-ottawa-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stars defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin back in Dallas\u2019 lineup vs. Senators<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/11\/29\/how-to-watch-stars-senators-tv-streaming-info-as-dallas-looks-for-four-wins-in-a-row\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to watch Stars-Senators: TV, streaming info as Dallas looks for four wins in a row<\/a><\/ul>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Stars coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when the Dallas Stars got some much-needed reinforcements along the blue line with the return of Ilya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":416244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,19491,347,1596,1320,293,62,4810,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-416243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american-airlines-center","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-stars","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-stars","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115641778372318010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}