Start fighting injuries? This has been one of the worst season yet for the sharks in terms of injuries. The only top 6/4 players that haven't missed games yet. Are pavs and burns.
Right, and the coach has publicly stated that those two are currently battling and just playing through injuries.
Plus, even if we're not near the bottom of the league in terms of man games missed (not sure if we are or not), some of those guys who got injured came back too soon and were clearly not themselves. Hertl, for example, was rendered ineffective for about 5 more games after missing 3, which is 10% of the season. Couture only missed like 3 games with his concussion but when he came back he took at least 5 games to get back to form, that's another 10% of the season at least that his injury has rendered him useless. Then you've got Vlasic whose concussion completely destroyed him and only recently has he looked like his usual self. Jones had that undisclosed injury in the middle of the year and only missed a few games but when he came back he looked worse than the other guy that wore #31 for the Sharks for like an entire month. When I think about it, Timo Meier and Joakim Ryan are just about the only key players who haven't battled injuries this season.