NHL playoffs: Henrique, Hintz to miss Oilers-Stars Game 1 [Video]

DALLAS –

Top-line Dallas Stars centre Roope Hintz will still be out of the lineup for the Western Conference Final opener Thursday night against Edmonton, which is still without forward Adam Henrique.

Both players are expected to play at some point in the series.

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Hintz missed the last two games of the Stars’ second-round series against Colorado after leaving in the first period of Game 4 with a lower body-injury on May 13.

Stars coach Pete DeBoer said during the morning skate Thursday that Hintz is still considered day to day.

“He’s getting closer,” DeBoer said. “Skated yesterday, skated today. So, you know, hopeful for Game 2.”

Henrique will miss his sixth consecutive game because of an ankle injury.

After the getting hurt in the Game 5 clincher in the first round against the Los Angeles Kings on May 1, Henrique missed …