Stars’ Adam Erne out week-to-week with lower-body injury
Dallas Stars winger Adam Erne will miss “at least a couple of weeks” with a lower-body injury, Stars radio analyst Bruce LeVine reported Wednesday afternoon.
Erne, 30, has appeared in 14 games with the Stars to begin the 2025-26 regular season, collecting two goals, three points, and two penalty minutes.
According to Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan, Erne sustained the injury during the team’s 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday. The New Haven, Connecticut product logged 8:36 of ice time in the win.
The Stars have one more game in Montreal during their current road swing, but according to Gulutzan, Erne will return to Dallas ahead of his teammates to undergo further treatment.
Glen Gulutzan says Adam Erne will be out a few weeks after sustaining an injury last night in Ottawa.
Erne will be coming back to Dallas before the team for further evaluation
The Stars signed Erne to a one-year, $775,000 contract back on October 7, following a successful professional tryout opportunity for the 6’1″ left winger.
A second-round pick (No. 33 overall) of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2013 NHL Draft, Erne spent his junior career with the QMJHL’s Quebec Remparts before turning pro with the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch in 2015-16.
Erne made his NHL debut with the Lightning in 2016-17 and appeared in parts of three seasons with his draft club to begin his career before being traded to the Detroit Red Wings in August 2019. Of his four seasons in Detroit, Erne’s best was the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 campaign, in which he collected 11 goals and 20 points in 45 games.
After joining the Edmonton Oilers organization for the 2023-24 season and appearing in just 24 NHL games with them, Erne skated in just 10 games with the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack to start the 2024-25 season before being released and remaining unsigned for the rest of the year.
Through 393 career NHL games over parts of nine seasons with the Lightning, Red Wings, Oilers, and Stars, Erne has collected 43 goals and 94 points. He also skated in three playoff games with the Lightning in the spring of 2019.