The One Injury That Would Devastate Your Team

[zombi]

Just curious...

Which player, if they were to get injured and be out out for a long period of time, would have the worst effect on your team as a whole?

Not necessarily always the stars on each team, as some positions may have greater depth than others.

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[ZeroPT*]

Myers.

His injury started this massive losing skid

 

[Yung Rotini]

Giordano

 

[NYR89]

Henrik Lundqvist taking a puck to the throat. Oh wait..

 

[Uncle Gary]

Price.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

At the moment? Lehner, because Anderson is already injured. if Anderson is healthy? Karlsson.

 

[oobga]

Nuge for the Oilers.

Derek Roy or Boyd Gordon as our #1C if that happens. Of course by devastate I mean we go from 29th in the NHL to 29th in the NHL.

 

[mariemarie]

Number 1 goalies

 

[Machinehead]

Either Lundqvist or Stepan is pretty much season over.

 

[Tarasenko]

Nuge for the Oilers.

Derek Roy or Boyd Gordon as our #1C if that happens. Of course by devastate I mean we go from 29th in the NHL to 29th in the NHL.

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Price for the habs.
They'd go from a top conference team to a bubble playoff team easily.

 

[zombi]

Number 1 goalies

Some teams have some decent goalie depth.

Ex. J. Howard going down for a while and Mrazcek has stepped in and we've continued to win.

 

[Vesa Awesaka]

anderson or karlsson

 

[kingsholygrail]

Drew Doughty. Don't have anyone else that can eat nearly 30:00 a night.

 

[landy92mack29]

EJ(currently hurt),Varlamov or Landeskog

 

[SniperHF]

Vermette due to the potential loss of trade bait.

 

[Machinehead]

Probably more so Stepan, actually. At least Talbot is probably an NHL starter. Our center depth without Stepan is a festering tumor.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Pick one of Crosby/Malkin/Letang. I would say Fleury, but I think we'd be better off with a Greiss/Zatkoff tandem than without any of the trio. I'm tempted to say Letang would hurt more than anyone given Määttä being out for the year and the unit being underwhelming as a whole aside from Letang, who is right back at Norris candidate quality...but losing any of the three basically spells doom to our season regardless.

 

[InfinityIggy]

Gio for the Flames, easily.

 

[Nicko999]

Instead of the obvious answer (Price) I would say Pacioretty. Who is going to score if he goes down?

 

[member 151739]

Jonathan Toews.

 

[Leafidelity]

Clarkson. Nobody kills offense or a PP quite like him. They might be forced to play an actual hockey player in his place. They might even win a game.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Tough. Our system crashes with no Chara or Bergeron, our offense dies with no Krejci, and Rask is Rask.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

Probably a tie between Bryan Little and Dustin Byfuglien.

 

[Timo Time]

Thornton.

It happened already this year and was a disaster to watch the roster without him.

 

[Jyrki]

Either Edler or Tanev.