{"id":70512,"date":"2020-03-03T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=70512"},"modified":"2021-03-11T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:28:07","slug":"dallas-stars-ben-bishop-others-out-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/03\/03\/dallas-stars-ben-bishop-others-out-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars Ben Bishop, Others Out with Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas Stars<\/a> will be without starting goaltender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bishobe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ben Bishop<\/strong><\/a> for tonight&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>. The goalie is dealing with a lower-body injury per coach Rick Bowness. The team had several other updates for the media that were announced earlier Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Updates per Rick Bowness:<\/p>\n<p>-Bishop out with a lower-body injury, day-to-day (skated this morning)<\/p>\n<p>-Stephen Johns returns to the lineup, Polak out<\/p>\n<p>-Dobby gets the start, Oettinger backing up on emergency basis<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EDMvsDAL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EDMvsDAL<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoStars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoStars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; X &#8211; Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DallasStars\/status\/1234889100676734978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ben Bishop Hurt<\/h2>\n<p>The 33-year-old Bishop is having another quality season in 2019-20. &#8216;Big Ben&#8221; has 21 wins in 41 starts with a .921 save percentage and 2.49 goals-against average. Both of those statistics are good enough to put Bishop solidly inside the top-15 for NHL goaltenders this year. He ranks even higher when you exclude goaltenders who have played in fewer than 10 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop is still one of the league&#8217;s best goaltenders even as he ages into his mid-30s. He has three top-3 finishes for the Vezina trophy in his 11 seasons. Bishop does carry a sizable cap hit for a goaltender of $4.92 million but Dallas is in the middle of its playoff window. Paying a goaltender with Bishop&#8217;s history of production is more than acceptable.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Dallas will rely on 33-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/khudoan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Anton Khudobin<\/strong><\/a> as the primary while Bishop recovers. Khudobin is also have a very good year with a .930 save percentage and 2.23 goals-against-average in 24 starts. The Stars have recalled their first-round pick from 2017, Jake Oettinger, to act as his backup. Oettinger has a .912 save percentage and 2.62 goals-against for the team&#8217;s AHL affiliate. Losing Bishop isn&#8217;t ideal in the final weeks of the regular season but they are capable of managing in the short-term.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Bowness also indicated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsst03.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stephen Johns<\/strong><\/a> will return to the lineup but that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/polakro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>R<\/strong><strong>oman Polak<\/strong><\/a> is out. Johns has appeared in 13 games in 2019-20 with two goals and five points. Polak has just four assists all season but does have 104 hits and 93 blocks. Fans should expect Johns to assume a depth role of some sort and cover Polak&#8217;s minutes on the penalty kill with a combination of other defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"yd54rSquSv9g4gWanQHe6g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1209159559\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'yd54rSquSv9g4gWanQHe6g',sig:'k91rR9lLCjavboF_A9_21QoxghVYUmI0kOSLrC2jg8c=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1209159559',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Stars will be without starting goaltender Ben Bishop for tonight&#8217;s game against the Edmonton Oilers. The goalie is dealing with a lower-body injury per coach Rick Bowness. The team had several other updates for the media that were announced earlier Tuesday morning. Updates per Rick Bowness: -Bishop out with a lower-body injury, day-to-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":70520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6671,34],"tags":[801,263,102,875,3455],"class_list":["post-70512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stars","category-injuries","category-news","tag-anton-khudobin","tag-ben-bishop","tag-dallas-stars","tag-roman-polak","tag-stephen-johns"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}