The Ottawa Senators won the Stanley Cup in 2006 on the shoulders of Olympic star Dominik Hasek. Whoops, no, they didn't!
Hasek missed the rest of the season with an injury sustained in Turin, and the Senators made a second-round postseason exit instead. Could a similar injury in Sochi derail one of this year's contenders?
Olympic injuries are taken very seriously. Hasek's was one of 47 injuries to occur in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Colin Horgan of the Guardian wrote:
Turin also saw Patrick Elias and Mattius Ohlund suffer rib injuries. Simon Gagne got a bruised knee, Pavol Dimitra injured his eye, and Alexander Frolov damaged his shoulder. Jaromir Jagr suffered a groin injury in the bronze medal game.
Fortunately there were "only" 22 injuries in 2010, according to the IIHF.
Which teams are at the greatest risk of a significant injury in Sochi? For each NHL team's Olympians, I identified which players have missed the most games over the past three seasons and ranked them by overall significance.
Though the teams were ranked by likelihood and impact of all their potential injuries, ...
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Article written by Rob Vollman
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