The NHL has launched an investigation into the Dallas Stars for a potential CBA violation of holding an optional practice during the holiday break.

Stars coach Pete DeBoer said that Dallas' young players practiced Thursday during a mandated NHL off day and that they were "supposed to."

The Dallas Stars may have gotten themselves in some trouble and it sounds like head coach Peter DeBoer is to blame in this scenario. The National Hockey League was on a mandatory break over the holiday season,

Dallas Stars forward Mason Marchment was helped off the ice during Friday night's game against the Minnesota Wild and taken to a hospital after being hit in the face by a puck

Stars forward Mason Marchment was helped off the ice late in the first period of Friday night’s game against the Minnesota Wild after being hit in the face by a puck. Marchment was stationed near the crease during a Dallas power play when a shot by Evgenii Dadonov from near the blue line was redirected by Logan Stankoven and struck Marchment just below his visor.

Stars forward Mason Marchment was hit in the face by a puck in the first period of Friday's game against the Wild, and the team said he would not return.

Brock Faber scored on a wraparound 35 seconds into overtime to lift the visiting Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 comeback victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night.

The Minnesota Wild headed south to face the Dallas Stars in their first game following the holiday break on Friday evening, Dec. 27. They had Filip Gustavsson

But the Wild flipped the game in the third with two goals in a 57-second span — one by Jonas Brodin (his first since Nov. 19) and a Marcus Foligno redirection — to tie the game. And that’s when Brock Faber stole the show.