Didn't actually say we had devastating injuries but when you're a team that's going to need a little bit of luck in order to compete for a playoffs spot they matter even more!Blob Mckenzie wrote: Lol which injuries were so devastating that they derailed a playoff team? Fuck that is some funny shit. Maybe it was the Dorset injury, Gudbranson perhaps ?
Oh and I hate Willie too but Scotty Bowman couldn't coach this group of scrubs to a playoff spot.
Games missed:
Edler 14
Hansen 35
Guds 33 (also played hurt longer than that)
Tanev 26
Rodin 60
Dorsett 49
The top 4 on that list are clearly key pieces and when you miss that many games there's pretty good chance the ones you're playing you aren't near 100% either.
When you're going to be battling to the end of the season to make the playoffs injuries like that will affect your chances.
At the begining of January our record with Tanev in the lineup was 9-4-2 and without was 8-14-1. That's a 109 point pace when he was healthy. And it wasn't much before then that we lost Gudbranson with his wrist surgery. Since then the wheels have fallen off in a stretch of games where we should've picked up more points.
But no, injuries haven't played a role at all. They aren't an excuse, we need to be deeper so these types of injuries don't affect us as much but we are still working towards that.