Dallas Stars’ Mason Marchment, Radek Faksa exit Game 2 vs. Golden Knights with injuries

While the Dallas Stars were searching for a third-period boost, two key injuries arose.

Less than two minutes apart, forwards Mason Marchment and Radek Faksa both exited Wednesday’s Game 2 against the Vegas Golden Knights with injuries. Faksa last touched the ice with 13:42 remaining, and Marchment did with 12:09 left.

Stars coach Pete DeBoer did not have an update on either player postgame.

Dallas entered the third period facing a 2-1 deficit, needing a bounce-back effort before the first-round playoff series made its way to Las Vegas. The Stars coaches had already adjusted the lines at the start of the third period for a boost but then had to play over half the period with scrambled lines and a short bench.

“It shortened our bench for sure,” DeBoer said. “You could see probably it started to wear on us — juice- and energy-wise — in the third.”

Marchment and Faksa were two of the most physically involved players in a battle on the ice Wednesday night. Vegas and Dallas combined for 108 hits. Dallas, alone, had 53 despite averaging just 17.8 per game in the regular season. Marchment, who scored a goal in Monday’s Game 1 loss, tied for a team-high seven hits while Faksa had six.

“I like the fact both teams were physically engaged,” DeBoer said. “I didn’t think it hurt our game other than we lost some bodies.”

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