Stars captain Jamie Benn on Wednesday missed his first game because of injury since the 2012-13 season, and will miss his second Saturday.

Benn was placed on injured reserve after hurting his foot Saturday against the Florida Panthers. Benn was listed as day to day Monday, but because the Stars are carrying eight defensemen, Dallas needed to place Benn on IR retroactive to Saturday's game so it could activate Antoine Roussel off of IR. Benn will be eligible to play Monday at Los Angeles if he is healthy.

"It's a chance for someone else to step up," coach Lindy Ruff said.

Benn missed the last game of the 2013-14 season when he was resting for the playoffs. He played 81 games that season. He then played all 82 games in 2014-15 despite some hip pain. He had hip surgery in the summer of 2015, then came back and played all 82 games last season. He had played all 38 games until Wednesday.

Benn said he doesn't think the injury is serious.

"I feel pretty good. Just a little bit of a tweak in my foot the last game," Benn said Monday. "Just going to take it day by day. We've got a couple days here, so it will be great to get some maintenance."

Ruff said the team assessed the Benn injury and decided to hold the captain out.

"This is a situation where it's our responsibility to keep him out because he could probably play, but to what effect he would be and where he would be in a couple days would be a big concern of ours," Ruff said.

He added that the team can battle through the absence of Benn.

"We've been hit hard with them, and Jamie's another one, but we have to plug a guy in his spot," Ruff said. "We've got some guys that are coming back now, so someone's going to have to pick up the slack for him."

Patrick Sharp moved up to the top line in Benn's spot, while Roussel returned from missing four games with an upper body injury.