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Stars D Stephane Robidas begins skating again

Dallas Stars defenseman Stephane Robidas has quietly been among the league's best two-way defenders for the past half decade. The veteran rearguard was lost to the Stars for the season, however, when he broke his leg in late November in a game against the Chicago Blackhawks. Or was he?

This week Robidas returned to the ice for the first time since sustaining his gruesome injury. Considering Robidas' advanced age and the amount of metal in his leg at the moment, that fact alone is pretty much insane.

"It’s pretty good. It’s better than I expected, to be honest,” Robidas told Stars Inside Edge blogger Mark Stepneski on Wednesday. “A little bit of it is pain, a lot of it is mental. You’ve got to trust it. We just did a little skating, no stop and start, no pivoting. I went forward, laps where I did c-cuts and kind of pushed on one leg. Obviously the stride is not the same, but I try to keep it as close as possible. Monday I couldn’t do any crossover to one side, but by the end of today I was able to do some. Progress.”

Robidas is aiming to return to the Stars lineup before the end of this season.

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