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Stars’ Roope Hintz confirms Oilers’ Darnell Nurse’s slash broke his foot

Originally posted on Oilersnation | By Zach Laing | Last updated May 31, 2025 6:00 PM ET

The slash Darnell Nurse laid to the foot of Dallas Stars centre Roope Hintz in Game 2 of the Western Conference Final broke his foot.

Hintz confirmed the injury on Saturday.

“So, there was a fracture, or a crack, however you call it,” Hintz told Stars reporter Robert Tiffin. “So it was pretty painful. I tried to go in Game 3, but I couldn’t. Then we find a way that I was able to play in Game 4.”

Roope Hintz confirms that his foot was fractured after the slash by Darnell Nurse.

— Robert Tiffin (@RobertTiffin) May 31, 2025

Roope Hintz had to be helped off the ice after taking a slash from Darnell Nurse

Nurse received a two-minute minor for slashing on the play pic.twitter.com/1qHQRbbyHa

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The incident happened early in the third period when the Edmonton Oilers defenceman and Hintz were battling in front of the Oilers net. Nurse was on the receiving end of a crosscheck in the back from Hintz, responding with a slash that caught him on the foot.

Hintz hit the ice hard, needing to be helped off the ice, as Nurse was initially assessed a five-minute major for slashing. A quick review, however, reduced it to a two-minute call.

After the game, Stars head coach Pete DeBoer was none too pleased about it.

“Does anyone in this room think that if Connor McDavid gets carried off the ice like that, that it’s not a five-minute major? Again, if that’s 97 carried off the ice in the same situation, I think we all know the answer to what that looks like for us.”

While Hintz missed Game 3, he returned for Game 4, only to find Oilers players — namely Evan Bouchard — taking aim at his injured foot. as the Oilers defenceman caught him with a slash.

Evan Bouchard gives Roope Hintz a slash to the top of his foot in his return to the lineup pic.twitter.com/ejnLtPIrwp

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DeBoer, also none too pleased with Bouchard’s slash, vocalized his displeasure after the game.

“You know what,” DeBoer said. “The referees, I think, have to take care of that. You don’t see that much outside of junior hockey. Hopefully, the league takes care of it.”