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When Tyler Seguin returns to the ice in the fall, he will do so fully healthy for the first time in quite some time.

Seguin will be 10 months removed from hip surgery that forced him to miss all but three games in the 2020-21 season, and able to train completely during the summer. He also underwent knee surgery in the past year, and scored two goals in his brief season before the Stars were eliminated from postseason contention.

“It was emotional to be back and not fully think that maybe I could have came back, especially this year,” Seguin said during the Stars exit interviews. “You have some days where you don’t know if you’re going to be able to play again. The first game was pretty incredible. The second game, I was starting to feel better.”

During the Stars run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2020, Seguin was dealing with a torn labrum in his hip, an injury that required a grueling rehabilitation process that was incomplete when Seguin debuted in Florida on May 3.

Seguin said he “never got to really get into the last phase, which was explosive power.”

“Being able to jump with body weight or jog or run, things I haven’t done in really a year now,” Seguin said. “That’s kind of what my next four months, five months is looking like. A lot more rehab to start but a lot more explosive training. I’m really excited to see what I can do this summer.”

The Stars missed Seguin in a variety of areas this season.

They missed him at center, which became a bigger void when Roope Hintz was out of the lineup dealing with his injured groin. On the power play, his one-timer threat was absent. He was a reliable right-handed center that could take faceoffs on the penalty kill. In overtime, Seguin would have been one of the most-used players. He would have been a staple in the shootouts and might have prevented some of the 14 overtime losses Dallas suffered.

“Some of those issues we’re talking about, they’re fixed as soon as we put a healthy lineup on the ice,” Stars coach Rick Bowness said.

It’s unknown what kind of player the Stars will be getting in Seguin when he returns. He was an 80-point player as recently as 2018-19, but that was prior to his two surgeries and lengthy recovery period. In his three games with the Stars, he was a sparkplug on offense when Dallas needed him to be during its playoff push.

His presence will certainly be a welcomed one.

“Understanding how grateful I am to do the things I love and have this lifestyle,” Seguin said. “That all came from not being able to live, be able to be around the guys and play the game I love. That was the biggest thing I learned was just how passionate I still am about the game.”

With Seguin, Hintz and Jamie Benn at center (Bowness said the Stars would continue to use the captain in the middle), the Stars appear much deeper at center than they did at points of the season when dealing with injuries.

While the Stars likely need more scoring to truly compete with Tampa Bay and Colorado for the Stanley Cup, re-adding Seguin is a solid start.

“It’s a big offseason for all of us, our whole organization and definitely, especially for me,” Seguin said. “I’m pumped. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be a grind, but I’m excited for the challenge.”

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