It was announced earlier today that Tyler Seguin's actual foot/leg injury is a hairline fracture in his heel, but that may not end up being the worst injury the Dallas Stars have to endure as a result of the World Cup of Hockey.

Radek Faksa did not return to the bench after the first period of the Czech Republic's game against Canada, and this is the first thing we heard:

OK Faksa missing because of medical reasons confirmed, this is the only thing confirmed from the Czech team on him so far. #WCH2016 #Faksa — Petr Dufek (@NHLPete) September 18, 2016

Nothing else came to light during the match, but Team Czech Republic is expected to update Faksa's status soon.

I re-watched his last shift in the first, and I saw two things: One, a weird collision with Ryan Getzlaf (with whom he had had some chippiness earlier) away from the puck, and Two, a blocked slapshot at the blue line that Faksa promptly took back up the ice after the puck dropped at his feet. Speculate if you want, but I'm going to go ahead and wait before drawing any conclusions* or anything. He did skate back to the bench without any noticeable difficulty (from what I could see on the ESPN camera angles).

*Except for the fact that the World Cup should be canceled forever. I have already drawn that conclusion.

As far as the game goes, there's not much to say other than this: the Czechs got pasted by Canada. Shots on goal ended up 50-27 for Canada, and that's despite the fact that the Czech Republic spent 12 minutes on the power play. This looked, felt, and was every bit the best team in the tournament going up against a team with Andrej Sustr and Jakub Nakladal as their top defensive pair. When the Czechs had the puck, they were able to generate some good chances, but the Canada defense kept most rebounds to a minimum, and you're usually going to need some of those to beat Carey Price.

As far as the Stars players, Radek Faksa played well in the first period, and that was fun while it lasted. Ales Hemsky led Czech forwards in ice time after the first, and he ended up mid-pack with 17 minutes. He saw a good chunk of power play time on (I think) the 2nd power play unit, where he unloaded a couple of shots (three total in the game) as well. He had a turnover, carried the puck well the handful of times his team actually had it, and looked like one of the NHLers on a subpar team.

Here are some things that I saw when I watched the game. As usual, these are not necessarily insightful or informative things. I should stop adding self-deprecating prefaces to these bullet points: